The New, Nutritious Chicken Salad
Chicken salad is a lunchtime favorite that many people enjoy multiple times a week. However, eating the same old chicken salad might get a little dull- it is time to spice it up! These few simple additions will not only add an incredible amount of flavor but they will also give your chicken salad some extra nutrition. So let’s see how we can turn this classic dish into something even more amazing.
The first thing that we add to our chicken salad to jazz it up is avocados. A ripe, mashed, perfectly green avocado is something that is just incomparable in flavor and in nutrition. One servings of avocado has about 26% of your daily needed vitamin K, 20% of folate, 17% of vitamin C and 14% of the recommended daily potassium. In addition to all those bountiful nutrients, avocados have 15 grams of healthy fats. What are healthy fats? Let’s explain…
Avocados are made up of about 77% monounsaturated fats. This kind of fat is considered good as it helps lower your cholesterol. Good fats can also reduce your chances of developing cardiovascular disease which means a lower chance of artery blockages, heart attack, stroke and blood clots. Monounsaturated fats can also help your body absorb nutrients making all those great things inside an avocado even more accessible to your body. Seems like avocado is powerhouse food!
After mixing the avocado into the chicken salad, we also add cilantro and parsley, tow herbs that you may not usually associate with chicken salad. However, the avocado already gives the chicken salad a Mexican like flare so adding these herbs just makes that taste even more present. Cilantro has a fresh, citrus like taste while parsley has a mild, bitter taste that adds a little bite to the salad.
We also decided to chop up a few black Kalamata olives to the salad to give it some beautiful color and a wine like flavor. Most Kalamata olives are brined in a red wine vinegar which gives them this distinct taste that helps make our chicken salad even more unique.
Mixing this innovative chicken salad together only takes a matter of minutes and it is also something you can prepare ahead of time, making a large batch to last you the entire week. If you do choose to make a nice big bowl of pesto chicken salad, consider adding the avocado in the day you plan to enjoy the dish. This will prevent it from turning brown and keep that nice green color.
So go grab a big mixing bowl, find some ripe avocados and a few cans of shredded chicken and you will be ready to liven up your favorite lunchtime dish! Enjoy!
| Servings: servings |
- 2 5 ounce cans shredded chicken breast
- 2 medium avocados pitted and diced
- 2 tablespoons mayonnaise
- 2 tablespoons Fresh chopped cilantro
- 1 tablespoon fresh chopped parsley
- 1 cup finely diced celery
- 1/4 cup kalamata olives sliced
- 2 tablespoons diced yellow onion
- salt and pepper
- Drain the chicken and shred it into a medium mixing bowl.
- Stir in the diced avocado, mashing as you stir.
- Add the remaining ingredients and stir well.
- Season with salt and pepper to taste then chill until ready to serve.
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Dr. Rosmy Barrios, MD is an aesthetic medicine specialist whose work focuses on patients who are treated for obesity, metabolic syndrome, and other weight-related issues through nutritional analysis, keto diet programs, and supporting medications.
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