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How To Make Bacon Chicken Salad

Bacon Chicken Salad Recipe. A light and tasty lunch-time snack, guaranteed not to weigh you down on those busy afternoons in the office. Savour our Bacon Chicken Salad recipe. Enlarge

How To Make Bacon Chicken Salad

Bacon Chicken Salad Recipe. A light and tasty lunch-time snack, guaranteed not to weigh you down on those busy afternoons in the office. Savour our Bacon Chicken Salad recipe.

Prep:
20m
Cook:
30m
Total:
50m
Serves:
2

Step 1: You will need

  • 1 chicken breast, sliced in half
  • 4 smoked bacon rashers
  • 2 slices of day-old country bread
  • 1/2 avocado
  • 1 small tomato
  • A handful of salad greens
  • 80 ml olive oil
  • salt and pepper
  • 50 g blue cheese
  • 1 tbsp sherry vinegar
  • 2 tbsp chopped walnuts
  • 1 tsp Dijon mustard
  • 1 cutting board
  • 1 knife
  • 1 frying pan
  • 1 set of tongs
  • 1 tray
  • 2 bowls
  • 1 spoon

Step 2: Make vinaigrette

Put the blue cheese into the bowl and mash it up. Add the vinegar, mustard, nuts and season with salt and pepper. Mix it together well. Now add a little oil, mix it in well, and repeat adding oil in this manner until you have used all but 1.5 Tbsp. This will be used later.

Step 3: Begin the salad

Trim the crust from the bread, cut it into logs and set it aside. Slice the tomato and put it into a bowl and peel and cut the avocado and put it in the same bowl.

Step 4: Season the chicken

Generously season the chicken with salt and pepper on both sides.

Step 5: Cook meat and bread

Heat the frying pan. When warm, add a little oil, the bacon, chicken and bread. Cook for a few minutes, turning often. When the bacon is crispy, remove it from the heat. Next, remove the chicken, leaving the bread to brown a little longer. Finally remove the bread.

Step 6: Prepare the salad

Cut the chicken and bacon into bite-sized morsels. Place them into the bowl with the salad greens and put the sliced vegetables on top. Add the bread and season with salt and pepper. Add a little dressing and toss together.

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As with any vinaigrette salad, add only a little of the dressing. The flavour of the salad greens and other ingredients should not be overpowered by the vinaigrette.

Step 8: Serve

Drizzle a little of the vinaigrette around the serving plate. Place the salad onto the plate and serve.