Easy chicken salad

At a glance

Preparation time: 10 minutes

Difficulty: Easy

Serves: 1

Ingredients

• 1½ cups lettuce
• 1 small tomato
• 1 stick celery
• ¼ avocado
• 125g canned or frozen corn kernels, drained (no added salt if available)
• 2 tablespoons of red onion
• 80g cooked skinless chicken*
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• Pepper, to taste

Steps

1. Shred the lettuce by chopping it into thin slices. Set aside in a serving bowl.
2. Dice the tomato, celery, and avocado by cutting it into small pieces. Add to the bowl with the shredded lettuce.
3. Dice the red onion by removing the outer skins and chop into very small, thin pieces. Add onion to the bowl with the lettuce, tomato, and avocado.
4. Roughly chop up the cooked chicken into small bite sized pieces and add to the serving bowl with the salad ingredients.
5. Add corn kernels to the bowl.
6. To make the dressing mix olive oil, lemon and pepper in a cup.
7. Pour salad dressing over the chicken salad.

*Tips

• Cooked chicken could include store bought BBQ chicken.
• For a vegetarian option, replace chicken with 1 cup canned legumes (for example black beans or kidney beans).
• Use any vegetables you prefer or leftover vegetables in this salad.
• Option to add cheese to this salad (such as grated cheddar cheese or feta).
• Option to add some fresh or dried herbs for additional flavour.