A Bit Of Everything Chicken Salad

Total Time: 25 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 lb chicken breast (i buy the tenders)
• 1 bunch spinach (about 2 cups washed, stemmed and torn)
• 1/2 head lettuce (about 2 cups washed and shredded)
• 1 cup red grapes
• 1 cup cherry tomatoes
• 1 apple, peeled and sliced
• 1 orange, sectioned
• 1/2 cup cashews
• 1/4 cup sunflower seeds
• 1/4 cup raisins
• 3 green onions, sliced
• 1/4 cup lemon juice (about 2 lemons)
• 4 tablespoons honey
• 1 pinch cayenne pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons poppy seeds
• 1/2 teaspoon dijon mustard
• 1/2 cup olive oil (walnut oil or other nut oil is also good in this dressing)

Recipe

• 1 whisk together dressing ingredients (lemon juice - mustard), whisking in oil in a slow stream.
• 2 dressing will be used for both marinating the chicken and for salad dressing.
• 3 with one third of the dressing (reserving 2/3 of the dressing for salad dressing) marinate chicken for 1 hour and then broil chicken, discarding the marinade.
• 4 shred or chop chicken.
• 5 mix together salad ingredients (spinach - orange) with shredded chicken.
• 6 toss.
• 7 garnish with cashews, sunflower seeds, raisins and green onion.
• 8 toss.
• 9 whisk dressing again and then toss salad with remaining dressing (or 2/3 of the original dressing).