Sweet Curry Chicken Salad

Plan Z Phase: This is a Z2 (ZReduction) and a Zola to GO! recipe. This dish on Z2 will be your fruit and your entrée. This is a super-simple dish for even the novice cooks.

Ingredients for this dish are listed per person. You can make several servings to share with family and friends or it keeps well in your refrigerator.

Ingredients:

• 6-8 oz chicken breast, poached* and shredded**
• a sprinkling of curry powder
• a sprinkling of apple pie spice mix or cinnamon or even nutmeg. Your choice.
• 1 cup of various veggies. My combo included bell peppers, onions, and tomatoes
• 1 cup of fruit. I chopped up an apple (with the peel on it) and tossed in some blackberries. You choose your own combo
• unlimited salad greens

Instructions:

In a true chopped salad, everything is chopped very small so you don’t need your knife to eat any of it. So to make this salad I start off by chopping up romaine lettuce into very narrow strips and then cut it again across the grain so it’s really chopped fine. Put that on a plate.

Next, chop up the veggies and decide on your fruit. Put the veggies and fruit on top of the greens.

Lastly, shred your chicken. Put it in a bowl and sprinkle on the curry and sweet element. How much you put on depends on your tastes. I wanted this salad to have an Indian taste but also still wanted the whole thing to taste pretty sweet. In hot weather curry and fruit make a lovely combination (or anytime, really). So I am pretty liberal in my sprinkle of the curry and the pie spice. Stir.

Mound your chicken on top of the fruit and veg combination. This looks just like the old salads that used to be available at a Walgreen’s lunch counter. If you want a true chopped salad look you’ll mix it all up. It can be eaten either way.

To transport it to work or to an event you might as well mix it all up. The curry and sweetness will both be transferred to the veggies and salad greens. No need for dressing.

Enjoy!

*How to Poach a chicken breast:  put your chicken in a pan and cover it with water.  Bring it up to a medium boil for approximately 15 minutes or until when you cut into it there’s no pink remaining.

**How to Shred a chicken breast:  When the chicken comes out of the poaching liquid you can either shred it hot or wait for it to cool.  Then just hold the chicken breast down with one fork and grab at it with the tines of another fork to pull the chicken apart. Just keep pulling the pieces until you get the shreds to a size you like. Some like fully shredded chicken. Others will like chicken that still has some lumps in it.

Both of these things are super-simple. Don’t let instructions freak you out.

Cheers,