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Mango Salad, avocado and chicken

Mango, Avocado, and Chicken Salad

A delicious, healthy, colorful salad for a holiday table. This salad with mango, avocado, and smoked chicken is restaurant-quality yet very easy to make at home — after all, both mango and avocado are readily available now. You can use not only smoked chicken but boiled or baked, too.

Maria

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Smoked chicken (or just boiled or fried chicken; I used smoked chicken breast, but any chicken fillet works)

300

Arugula

100

Avocado

Mango

Pine nuts

Citric acid

Orange juice

Olive oil

Whole-grain mustard

Ground black pepper

Salt

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 30 % 7 g

Fats 43 % 10 g

Carbohydrates 26 % 6 g

143 kcal

GI: 50 / 50 / 0

Cooking method

Cooking time: 40 min

Step 1:

How do you make a salad with mango, avocado, and smoked chicken? First, measure out the ingredients. Wash and dry the arugula. Tear the large leaves into small pieces. Toast the pine nuts in a dry skillet until golden.
Step 2:

Cut the chicken into small pieces. You can use boiled chicken, but smoked tastes better.
Step 3:

Peel the mango, cut it in half, and remove the pit. Cut the flesh into small slices.
Step 4:

Cut the avocado in half lengthwise and remove the pit. Peel the halves and cut them into small slices. Sprinkle the avocado with lemon juice right away so it doesn't brown.
Step 5:

The dressing.
Step 6:

Combine the orange juice, olive oil, mustard, salt, and pepper and mix.
Step 7:

Arrange the arugula on a platter. Lay the chicken pieces on top.
Step 8:

Add the mango and avocado slices on top of the chicken.
Step 9:

Drizzle the dressing over the salad and sprinkle pine nuts on top.

What I loved about this salad is the bright pairing of smoked chicken with exotic fruits — mango and avocado — beautifully set off by arugula and pine nuts. A wonderful play of flavors! My family and I were delighted. Truly like dining at an upscale restaurant!
This salad is also great because you can easily swap the smoked chicken — which not everyone enjoys — for baked, or better yet, boiled chicken. That makes the salad more diet-friendly.
Of the ingredients you could swap, I'd mention the arugula. I love this kind of green for its unusual, slightly peppery taste, but some of my friends really don't care for it. If you're not an arugula fan either, replace it with ordinary salad leaves. The flavor of the dish will change, of course, but it'll stay just as unusual thanks to the exotic fruit.
For this salad, I recommend choosing an avocado of just the right ripeness — not too hard, but not too soft. An unripe avocado will be bland, and an overripe one risks turning to mush instead of slices, which can spoil the look of the salad.
Enjoy!