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Mexican Chicken Salad

Posted by lisa on 10 Apr 2013 in Poultry, Recipes | 12 comments

Mexican food is probably one of my favorites. The way I used to eat Mexican was pretty unhealthy. My favorites were tortilla chips, cheese enchiladas, nachos and guacamole. The more melted cheese, sour cream and guacamole smothered the food was, the better. I’m happy I can still get a really good Mexican flavor in a more healthy way.

This recipe is quick and easy. You can adapt it any way you like. Use the meat and salad greens that you like best. We make this with steak all the time. Sometimes we put the filling in lettuce boats rather than on top of salad.

Healthier Mexican

Recipe Ingredients

The Chicken Part

400g chicken
juice of half a lime
2 cloves of garlic, crushed
1 Tablespoon chili powder
2 medium onions, chopped
1 bell pepper, cut into strips
6 fresh pepperoncini, left whole
2 Tablespoons coconut oil
salt to taste

Cut chicken into 1 inch cubes or strips. Sprinkle with chili powder, mix in lime juice and garlic and let marinate for 30 minutes.

Meanwhile, chop onion and peppers. Then saute onions, peppers and pepperoncini in one tablespoon coconut oil.

Peppers and onions

Set aside. Then add another tbsp oil and chicken to the pan and saute until just done, return veggies to pan and continue cooking for a couple of minutes until veggies are hot again.

Add the meat

The Chunky Guacamole Part

1 1/2 avocado, cubed
juice of half a lime
1 clove garlic, crushed
1 1/2 tomatoes, chopped
2 Tablespoons chopped fresh corriander
3 Tablespoons olive oil
salt to taste

Combine everything together and refrigerate.

Chunky Guacamole

The Dressing for the Salad Greens

juice of half a lime
1 clove of garlic, crushed
1 teaspoon chopped fresh cilantro
3 Tablespoons olive oil
salt and pepper to taste

Mix everything together and spoon over your salad greens. Then add the chicken over the salad greens. Top with the chunky guacamole.

My dinner plate

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12 Comments

James / 10 April 2013

Thank you! I will give this recipe a shot.

What ‘salad greens’ do YOU prefer?
- lisa / 10 April 2013
  
  Hi James,
  The greens pictured in this recipe were rucola (arugola, rocket) which I really love to eat paired with steak and balsamic vinegar. Probably my favorite salad greens are baby spinach and beet greens. I also like a lettuce that we get here called lattich.
christian / 13 April 2013

Mhh,, your dinner pictures looks so nice! This is in the menu for tonight dinner!
- lisa / 13 April 2013
  
  Thanks Christian 🙂
Sheena / 23 April 2013

How many people dose the recipe feed??
- lisa / 23 April 2013
  
  Hi Sheena,
  It fed two hungry people and there was enough left over that I took it for lunch the next day.
- Sheena / 23 April 2013
  
  Can the recipe be split with 2 people??? And how many weight watchers points do u think this would calculate to??
  - lisa / 23 April 2013
    
    Sorry, I don’t do Weight Watchers or count calories so I have no idea.
Sheena / 23 April 2013

Ok thank you…..
Veloudo / 6 May 2015

What a recipe, im thrilled with it, thank you.. i will be in touch, planning to move to switzerland, the french part, i wish you had some more information about sources, markets, etc, for that part of la suisse as well.

Very happy to have found you , anyway..keep up the good work
- lisa / 10 May 2015
  
  Hi Veloudo,
  Good luck with your move! The French region is beautiful. I hope you’ll be very happy here 🙂