zoomed-in salad

Summer salad with chicken and bacon

A salad with all the trimmings, yet light in taste and good for bikini body ambitions. In this salad, I have combined all the ingredients I like in restaurant salads into a meal-filling salad. It may be called a meal salad, but it is also great for lunch or as a side dish for the barbecue.

For a vegetarian variant, it is best to replace the chicken with vegetarian chicken pieces or, if you like some extra flavour, with goat cheese. Bacon cannot really be replaced in terms of flavour, but the structure can easily be replaced by sun-dried tomatoes. Want to try? Then add about 1.5 times the amount of sun-dried tomatoes than in the recipe.

Salads don’t actually store well for more than a few hours. I often make this salad in the amount below and store the surplus in a sealed container in the fridge. After which we can enjoy again the next day during lunch. The tomatoes and cucumber lose a little moisture in the fridge so let this drain a bit from your container into the sink and add a little bit of mayonnaise, otherwise the whole thing will get a little dry due to the moisture loss.

salad in final bowl

Salad with chicken, bacon and sundried tomatoes

Summer salad with chicken, bacon and sun-dried tomato
5 van 1 stem
Cook Time 35 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes
Course Main Course
Cuisine Dutch
Servings 3
Calories 649 kcal

Equipment

  • 1 skillet
  • 1 Spatula
  • 1 Cutting board
  • 1 Knife
  • 1 big bowl 28cm diameter
  • 1 salad cutlery

Ingredients
  

  • 300 grams chicken thigh fillet
  • 225 grams iceberg lettuce
  • 125 grams mayonaise
  • 120 grams Sun dried tomatoes
  • 75 grams parmigiano reggiano Parmesan cheese
  • 50 grams bacon 6 slices thickly cut
  • 50 grams rocket arugula
  • 20 grams margarine
  • 20 grams pine nuts
  • 20 pickled onions
  • 3 tomatoes
  • 1 cucumber
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
  • 1 teaspoon smoked paprika powder

Instructions
 

  • Collect all the ingredients you need.
    ingredients
  • In the dry skillet you will roast the pine nuts. You do this by adding the 20 grams pine nuts to the pan and baking them at a medium temperature. Shake the pan regularly so that the kernels turn until they are golden brown. Stay close to the pan because pine nuts burn very quickly. Remove the pine nuts from the pan and place in a container to cool.
    20 grams pine nuts
    roasted pine nuts
  • Heat 10 grams of margarine in a skillet. Fry the 50 grams of bacon at medium temperature until it is golden brown. Place the slices of bacon on a double folded paper towel to allow to cool and to drain.
    20 grams margarine, 50 grams bacon
    golden brown bacon
  • Meanwhile, cut the 300 grams chicken thigh fillet into cubes of 3 by 3 cm.
    300 grams chicken thigh fillet, 20 grams margarine
    cut chicken
  • Add the remaining 10 grams of margarine to the frying pan. Bake the chicken over medium heat for 8 minutes. During baking, season the chicken with 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon freshly ground pepper and 1 teaspoon smoked paprika powder.
    1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon freshly ground pepper, 1 teaspoon smoked paprika powder
    fry chicken
  • Remove the chicken from the pan to a container to cool.
    cooling chicken
  • Remove about 5 leaves of 225 grams iceberg lettuce from the head. Fold a leaf in half and cut it into strips of about 4 cm, turn your cutting board a quarter turn and cut again into strips of 4 cm. Wash the pieces of lettuce in a colander well and let it drain while you do the following steps.
    225 grams iceberg lettuce
    cut lettuce
  • Wash the 1 cucumber and cut it into slices about 1 cm thick. Pile up a par slices and cut in half, turn the stack a quarter turn and cut with 3 cuts into a total of 8 pieces. Add the cucumber to the bowl.
    1 cucumber
    cubed cucumber
  • Wash the 3 tomatoes and cut them in half, remove the crown with 2 cuts. Cut the tomato into 4 parts and cut the parts into 4 pieces again. Add the sliced tomato to the bowl.
    3 tomatoes
    cubed tomato
  • Cut the 75 grams parmigiano reggiano into flakes/slices of about 3 mm thick and 1.5 by 1.5 cm. Add the flakes to the bowl.
    75 grams parmigiano reggiano
    parmigiano regiano flakes
  • Cut the 20 pickled onions in half and add to the bowl.
    20 pickled onions
    sliced pickled onions
  • Cut the 120 grams Sun dried tomatoes into 4 and add to the bowl.
    120 grams Sun dried tomatoes
    quartered sundried tomatoes
  • Cut the cooled 50 grams bacon into pieces of about 2 cm and add to the bowl.
    50 grams bacon
    cut bacon
  • Now add the cooled chicken, pine nuts and drained iceberg lettuce to the bowl.
    gathered salad
  • Break above the bowl you the 50 grams rocket in half with your hands. This makes the salad a lot more pleasant to eat and you don't always have long strings of rocket in your mouth.
    50 grams rocket
    broken ruccola strings
  • Add the 125 grams of mayonnaise to the bowl, stir the salad well with salad cutlery or two large spoons.
    125 grams mayonaise
    add mayonaise
  • As we say in Dutch: Eet smakelijk!
    salad in final bowl

Did you taste it?

  • Try to keep the sizes of the ingredients in the recipe. If you cut ingredients too large or too small, there is a chance that you will no longer taste it or that it will dominate.

Nutrition

Calories: 649kcalCarbohydrates: 16.2gProtein: 36.5gFat: 47.5gSaturated Fat: 14.49gSodium: 1596mgPotassium: 55mgFiber: 5.26gSugar: 12.86g
Keyword bacon, Chicken, salad
Tried this recipe?Laat mij weten wat je ervan vind!
5 from 1 vote (1 rating without comment)

Laat een bericht achter

Rating recept