Chicken Quinoa Salad with Basic Vinaigrette

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Ingredients Minutes Calories
Prep Cook Servings
30 min 20 min 2
Chicken Quinoa  Salad with Basic Vinaigrette
Health Highlights
A salad that can feed the meat eater and the plant based eater. Remove the chicken, and add in another 1/4 cup quinoa, sweet potato, or extra veggies.

Ingredients


2 chicken breast Chicken breast, roasted (or more as desired)
1/2 cup Quinoa, cooked
1 medium pepper(s) Yellow bell pepper
1/2 cucumber(s) Cucumber
2 cup shredded Red leaf lettuce (or more as desired. Can also substitute any green)
1/2 cup grated Carrots
1/2 medium Red onion (diced)
1 tbsp Parsley, fresh (finely chopped)
3 tbsp Balsamic Vinaigrette

Instructions


Roast or grill chicken breast, seasoning with salt, pepper or desired herbs before cooking. Cool

While chicken is roasting, cook quinoa according to directions. Cool. Both chicken and quinoa can be prepped a day ahead and cooled, stored in refridgerator.

While both chicken and quinoa are cooking, chop and prepare veggies. Place all veggies in a bowl.

Place cooled chicken and quinoa in the bowl with veggies. Toss with vinaigrette and serve. Alternatively, pack chicken quinoa salad for lunch and vinagraitte separately.

 

 


Nutrition Facts

Per Portion

Calories 506
Calories from fat 178
Calories from saturated fat 38
Total Fat 19.8 g
Saturated Fat 4.2 g
Trans Fat 0
Polyunsaturated Fat 7.8 g
Monounsaturated Fat 6.1 g
Cholesterol 151 mg
Sodium 178 mg
Potassium 1097 mg
Total Carbohydrate 24.8 g
Dietary Fiber 4.4 g
Sugars 5 g
Protein 59 g

Dietary servings

Per Portion


Grain 0.7
Meat 2.4
Vegetables 3.7

Energy sources


Pygal18%426.6827552867519120.698029239883335%449.4318988763225248.6588661679327947%292.6624428671217186.502140618884518%35%47%CarbohydratesFatProtein

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