Recipe: Simply Satisfying Summer Salad
If you’re like me you’re always short on time in the summer yet you’re looking for something healthy, delicious, and simple for dinner … stressing on simple. Wrangling a little one that just learned to walk and keeping the three year old eating healthy food is itself a challenge let alone find a way to keep it interesting and simple for us as well.
When we’re looking for an easy and healthy option we resort to a salad with the summer fixings. I’m talking avocados, tomatoes, cucumbers, etc.
Ingredients
- Chicken
- Lettuce
- Tomatoes
- Cucumber
- Avocado (may need 2-3~ days to ripen)
- Weber Italian Seasoning
- Light Dressing
Directions
- Marinade the chicken overnight if you’re chock full of time, otherwise no worries.
- Spice the chicken with Weber Italian Seasoning and throw on a real bbq grill or your favorite foreman style grilling device
- Wash & cut up all of the veggies
- Wash and spin out the lettuce
- Cut avocado in half (around the core), pop out the core with a spoon, slice the insides while still in the skin, scoop out the insides cleanly with a spoon. If you can’t cut it cleanly and simply your avocado may not be ripe enough.
- Layer on a plate … lettuce, cucumbers, tomatos, avocados, chicago and throw on a few slices of your favorite cheese if your feeling dangerous.
- Top if off with a nice lite dressing like a cucumber or a raspberry vinaigrette.
Bam, it’s ready to rock and roll. It’s healthy and simple with some great fats coming from the avocados, some protein from the chicken, and a whole lotta vitamins from the veggies. If my estimates are correct this comes in about:
323 calories … with 1/2 an avocado per serving and a 4-5 oz chicken breast
Fat: 17.8g
Cholesterol: 20.1mg
Carbohydrates: 20.1g
Protein: 26g
Enjoy!
Category: EAT IT, Main Course, Sean, The Sisterhood
