Salad with canned white beans cucumber and chicken

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make a salad with white beans, canned cucumber and chicken? For this recipe, you need a seasoning called zaatar - a mixture of fried sesame seeds with dried herbs and salt. This seasoning is not everywhere you can buy, but it is absolutely easy to cook at home. To begin with, dry the sesame seeds in a dry frying pan until golden brown.

2. Step 2:

   

   Mix sesame seeds, sumac, dried herbs (thyme, oregano) and salt. Rub the resulting mixture in a mortar with a pestle or grind for a few seconds in a coffee grinder. You will get a fragrant sour-salty mixture of spices.

3. Step 3:

   

   Now prepare the main ingredients for the salad. Drain the liquid from the white canned beans, dry the beans. Remove the zest from the lemon and squeeze out the juice.

4. Step 4:

   

   Pre-boil chicken fillet in salted water and cut into small pieces.

5. Step 5:

   

   Wash and dry the vegetables and herbs. Cut the cherry tomatoes in half.

6. Step 6:

   

   Cut the cucumber into cubes or quarters. The skin, if it is not rough, not damaged and not bitter, does not need to be cut off.

8. Step 7:

   

   Chop the parsley, mint and green onion. At the same time, pre-tear the mint from the twigs so that only tender leaves remain. If you don't have mint, fresh basil is an ideal substitute.

9. Step 8:

   

   In a bowl, combine the white beans, chicken fillet, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes and chopped greens.

10. Step 9:

    

    Add olive oil, lemon juice, zest and 1 tbsp zaatar. If desired, add salt, pepper and season with ground chili pepper. I did not additionally salt or pepper the salad - zaatar was enough for my taste (sumac tastes spicy). If you do not have the opportunity to cook / buy zaatar, you can simply sprinkle the salad with Provencal herbs, salt and pepper.

11. Step 10:

    

    Mix everything carefully and let the salad stand for 30 minutes.

12. Step 11:

    

    Before serving, add the crumbled feta. Bon appetit!