Salads are leafy and cabbage, green and white, fleshy and herbaceous, smooth and terry. All differ in taste, color and shape, but they are united by their benefits and versatility. Step-by-step recipe with a photo of salad with lettuce and chicken.
The name of the lettuce salad is a bit overwhelming. But lovers of diet salads have probably heard about the benefits of lettuce leaves. Dishes with this herb saturate the body with nutrients well. Today there are more than a hundred species of this culture. In cooking, the most famous representatives of the types of salads - watercress, romaine, lettuce, frieze, corn, iceberg - cannot be enumerated. Each type is a splash of juiciness, mouth-watering crunch and freshness of the leaves. Such a dish cannot but please the taste buds, which is why lettuce is loved all over the world. Lettuce leaves go well with many products: cheese, fish, vegetables, meat, poultry … If you have not yet had time to appreciate the beauty of lettuce leaves, here is a recipe for an easy summer dish for dinner and snacks - a quick salad with lettuce and chicken. Such salads are not usually seasoned with mayonnaise. All sorts of sauces based on olive oil, yogurt and sour cream are used for dressing.
Since the festive meal is based on greens, it must be of good quality. To do this, you need to know some rules. The greens must be fresh, otherwise the salad will be spoiled. Determine freshness by examining the root part of the leaf. Greens packed in polyethylene quickly deteriorate and lose their beneficial properties. Better to give preference to packing greens in paper bags. Don't let the size of the leaves scare you. They have no meaning and have no effect on the final taste of the food.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 145 kcal.
- Servings - 1
- Cooking time - 10 minutes, plus time for boiling or baking chicken fillet
Ingredients:
- Lettuce leaves - 5-6 leaves
- Vegetable oil - for dressing
- Chicken fillet (boiled or baked) - 1 pc.
- Cucumbers - 1 pc.
- Greens (dill, parsley) - a few twigs
- Salt - 0.5 tsp
Step-by-step preparation of salad with lettuce and chicken, recipe with photo:
1. Wash lettuce leaves under cold running water and dry with a paper towel. Cut the greens with a knife or tear the leaves with your hands.
2. Boil the chicken fillet in advance or bake it in the oven. If you baked a whole chicken carcass, and no one wants to eat the breasts because of the dryness of this part of the bird, then use them for a salad. A salad with baked meat in foil or on a grill will be juicier and tastier. I do not recommend frying fillets, because the salad will turn out to be more nutritious, and the meat will be drier. Smoked chicken can be used if desired.
Cut the finished chicken fillet into cubes or tear into the fibers.
3. Wash the cucumbers, cut off the ends and cut into thin half rings.
4. Wash dill or parsley greens, dry with a paper towel and chop.
5. Place all food in a large deep bowl and season with salt.
6. Season salad with lettuce and chicken with vegetable oil, stir and serve. If you're not afraid to experiment with ingredients, you can add your favorite foods to the salad. For example, boiled eggs, young white cabbage, slices of cheese, etc.
See also a video recipe on how to make a salad with lettuce, croutons and chicken.
