Come along to the farmhouse kitchen as we make this nutritious chicken salad with microgreens. Serve it how you like, on a sourdough English muffin or over a bed of microgreens. It’s packed full of flavor with roasted chicken, bacon, garden fresh vegetables and microgreens!
Nutritious Chicken Salad with Microgreens
Chicken salad is the perfect meal to have on a busy day, especially in the spring or summer when you’re working in the garden. This nutritious chicken salad with microgreens is an easy meal on-the-go.
Preparing the Chicken
Firstly, roast a whole chicken in the oven. Allow the chicken too cool. Meanwhile, you can chop the vegetables and cook the bacon. Shred half of the cooked whole chicken and place it in a bowl.
Vegetables for Chicken Salad
Finely chop bell pepper, half an onion and tomato. Add them to the bowl of shredded chicken.
Cooked Bacon
Cook some bacon in a cast iron skillet, we use turkey bacon. Allow the bacon to cool. Chop it and add it to the bowl of chicken and vegetables. Mix it all together.
Mayonnaise and Seasoning
After that, add 1/2 cup of mayonnaise and mix well. Next, add 1/2 tsp. salt, 1/2 tsp. cumin and 1/4 tsp. garlic salt.
Spicy Farm Mix & Radish Microgreens
Lastly, toss a handful of microgreens in the bowl of chicken salad, we used our spicy farm mix. Fold into the chicken salad. In addition, after we plated up our chicken salad we garnished with some radish microgreens to give it an extra kick!
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In conclusion, this nutritious chicken salad with microgreens is easy to make and packed full of flavor!
Serve the Nutritious Chicken Salad with Microgreens
Serve the chicken salad on a sourdough english muffin or any bread of your choice. Leave the bread out and serve in a lettuce wrap or on top of a bed of microgreens!
How to Make Nutritious Chicken Salad with Microgreens
INGREDIENTS
- 1/2 of a Whole Chicken, Cooled and Shredded
- 1 Bell Pepper, Diced
- 1/2 Onion, Diced
- 1 Tomato, Diced
- 1/2 cup Turkey Bacon, Cooked and Chopped
- 1/2 cup Mayonnaise
- 1/2 tsp. Salt
- 1/2 tsp. Cumin
- 1/4 tsp. Garlic Powder
- Handful of Spicy Mix Microgreens
- Garnish, Radish Microgreens
INSTRUCTIONS
- Shred half of the cooked whole chicken and place in a bowl.
- Add in bell pepper, onion and tomato.
- Add bacon. Mix together.
- Add mayonnaise, salt, cumin and garlic powder. Mix together.
- Toss in a handful of microgreens. Fold in.
- Serve as desired.
- Garnish with radish microgreens.
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Nutritious Chicken Salad with Microgreens
This nutritious chicken salad with microgreens is pack with roasted chicken, bacon, garden fresh vegetables and microgreens!
Ingredients
- 1/2 of a Whole Chicken, Cooled and Shredded
- 1 Bell Pepper, Diced
- 1/2 Onion, Diced
- 1 Tomato, Diced
- 1/2 cup Turkey Bacon, Cooked and Chopped
- 1/2 cup Mayonnaise
- 1/2 tsp. Salt
- 1/2 tsp. Cumin
- 1/4 tsp. Garlic Powder
- Handful of Spicy Mix Microgreens
- Garnish, Radish Microgreens
Instructions
- Shred half of the cooked whole chicken and place in a bowl.
- Add in bell pepper, onion and tomato.
- Add bacon. Mix together.
- Add mayonnaise, salt, cumin and garlic powder. Mix together.
- Toss in a handful of microgreens. Fold in.
- Serve as desired.
- Garnish with radish microgreens.
Notes
Serve it how you like, on a sourdough English muffin or over a bed of microgreens.
