Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
How to make a salad with chicken breast and beans? First of all, prepare all the products that are listed. Instead of chicken breast, you can use turkey, it will be no worse in harmony with all the other ingredients. Which lettuce leaves are better to take? Iceberg, lettuce, a mix of fresh leaves or romano will do. Rinse the breasts, dry them and cut them into thin strips or cubes.
Step 2:
Flip the beans from the jar into a colander and rinse under running water, shake. Leave it in a colander so that all the excess liquid runs off.
Step 3:
Prepare the vegetables. Peel the garlic and onion. For the salad, if possible, take red or white salad onions, you can use shallots. These varieties of onions have a milder taste and are well suited for vegetable salads. Rinse cucumber, tomatoes, herbs, lemon and everything else in clean water and dry with napkins.
Step 4:
Heat a small amount of vegetable oil in a frying pan. Put the chicken in a frying pan, add a little salt, sprinkle with ground peppers. Fry over medium heat, stirring, until tender. It took me about 10 minutes.
Step 5:
Pick lettuce leaves with your hands in arbitrary pieces or cut with a knife. Chop the remaining vegetables: onions in half rings or slightly smaller, cucumbers in small cubes, and cherry tomatoes in halves or quarters.
Step 6:
Send lettuce leaves and canned beans to a deep salad bowl.
Step 7:
Add the cooled chicken breast next.
Step 8:
Next comes the turn of tomatoes and cucumbers.
Step 9:
Prepare a fragrant salad dressing. In a deep small cup, mix refined vegetable or olive oil, juice of a freshly squeezed lemon, salt to taste, garlic passed through a press and ground peppers. If you have non-seasonal tomatoes, then you can add a pinch of sugar to the dressing to balance the taste. Mix everything thoroughly.
Step 10:
Pour the dressing over the salad.
Step 11:
Sprinkle on top with young herbs, chopped not coarsely. Dill, parsley, green onions, basil and others are well suited.
Step 12:
Mix the salad 5-10 minutes before serving. During this time, it will be maximally saturated with fragrant dressing and at the same time cucumbers with tomatoes will not have time to give a lot of juice and the rest of the components will not soften.
To prepare a salad, you can use ordinary beans, after boiling it until ready. Note that the cooking time will increase in this case.
Add your favorite dry seasonings to the fragrant dressing, if desired, and then the salad will sparkle with new notes.
Bon appetit!
Wash the meat, be sure to dry it with a paper towel, otherwise excessive moisture will not allow it to fry - it will stew.
Chicken can be replaced with turkey or any other type of meat at your request. But keep in mind that in this case, the cooking time and calorie content of the dish will change.
Choose juicy tomatoes, but dense. Soft fruits do not keep their shape well, in the process of slicing and cooking they will spread into a shapeless mass and spoil the appearance of the dish.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Onion - 41 kcal/100g
- Fresh cucumbers - 15 kcal/100g
- Lemon - 16 kcal/100g
- Lemon zest - 47 kcal/100g
- Garlic - 143 kcal/100g
- Vegetable oil - 873 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Chicken breast - 113 kcal/100g
- Fresh frozen soup greens in a package - 41 kcal/100g
- Greenery - 41 kcal/100g
- Pepper - 26 kcal/100g
- Cherry tomatoes - 15 kcal/100g
- Canned beans - 99 kcal/100g
- Lettuce leaves - 12 kcal/100g