Pesto Chicken Salad
This is one of our top ten salads for summer suppers. I have to double the recipe when I make it because we just can’t stop eating it.
The combination of the pine nuts and the raisins and the sun-dried tomatoes, oh my word it is amazing.
The only cooking required for it is grilling the chicken, so you don’t heat your house up and it’s nice and quick. If you are really planning ahead (which I do once in while…) you can grill the night before and go ahead and make the chicken and stick it in the fridge. Then when you are ready to make the salad, you already have the chicken cooked and ready!
Gotta love easy!
Pesto Chicken Salad
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Recipe By: Megan
Recipe type: Salad
Serves: 4
Ingredients
- 2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts, sliced in half so you have two thin pieces from each breast.
- 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- Kosher salt
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 1 cup pesto, home-made or store bought.
- ¼ cup pine nuts, toasted
- ¼ oil-packed sun-dried tomatoes, cut into ¼ inch wide strips
- ½ cup golden raisins
- ¼ cup kalamata olives, pitted and slivered
- 1½ cups firmly packed arugula leaves, stemmed
Preparation Instructions
- Preheat grill to high or prepare a hot fire in a charcoal grill.
- Combine olive oil, garlic and salt and pepper in a dish large enough to hold chicken. Toss chicken in oil mixture until coated. Let sit until ready to cook.
- In a medium bowl combine raisins, sun-dried tomatoes, olives, pine nuts and pesto.
- Grill the chicken over high heat.
- After chicken is cooked, allow to sit a few minutes to cool just so you can handle it. Cut into bite size pieces and add to pesto mixture. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
- To serve make a bed of arugula leaves on each plate and top with the chicken and pesto mixture. Serve immediately.
Thanks for the recipe: Nordstrom Friends and Family Cookbook
is a self taught home cook who enjoys cooking healthy and simple foods and delectable desserts for her husband and kids and the frequent last-minute dinner guests her husband shows up with.
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