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Let me back up: we got a meal delivery service. It's pretty cool! We get all the ingredients for 3 meals per week delivered to our door. The food is really, really yummy. It's pretty close to restaurant quality from my kitchen - amazing, right?
If you want to check out who we have, it's Good Food. They'll usually give like 3 or so free meals to new customers if you wanted to try them on for size.
Some of our favourite recipes have been:
- Chicken Tacos with Pickled Pineapple and Blue Corn Tortillas
- Fennel Crusted Salmon Bucatini with Baby Spinach and
- Peanut Butter Dumplings with Sesame Green Beans
????????????[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="11780" img_size="full"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1588534747154{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}"]And this weeks' recipe: Easy Spiced Chicken Salad with Brown rice was inspired by one alllll of the above delicious food coming into our house.
A few weeks ago, one of the recipes was was Spiced Chicken with Bell Pepper and Cucumber Couscous Salad. Yum! It was so good and fresh.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text="This Easy Spiced Chicken Salad with Brown Rice is easy enough to put together on a weeknight, especially if you use brown rice from a weekend food prep session." font_container="tag:h2|text_align:center|color:%23ee4937" google_fonts="font_family:Josefin%20Sans%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C600%2C600italic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1588534845503{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}"]It was filling, full of healthy carbs, fibre, protein and antioxidants. A super salad, indeed! ????
Plus, it's got mint and some lemon zest on top give it a real summery feel - even though we're not quite there yet, it will come!????
This Easy Spiced Chicken Salad with Brown Rice is easy enough to put together on a weeknight, especially if you use brown rice from a weekend food prep session (I'll often do brown rice and some veggies, boiled eggs and muffins.)
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The spice I use is this one from ClubHouse - "La Grille" Chicken Seasoning. I love this one because it tastes so good and it has no salt. Plus it's convenient. Like I'm pretty sure a person could make it themselves by combining a bunch of dried spices but hey. That's not really my jam.
This Easy Spiced Chicken Salad with Brown Rice is also perfect as an on-the-go meal because it's got some oomph! No limp mixed greens here my friend ????♀️
Alright, that's about it on the recipe. It's pretty straightforward which is another big reason I think you'll love it ????
I hope you give it a try and love it as much as we did.
If you tried it out and liked it, please let me know in the comments. I love hearing from you ????
~April
PS. Lookin' for a few other healthy and easy, gluten-free recipes?
Check these out:
Creamy Slow Cooker Chicken with Chickpeas
Simple Romaine Salad with Radish and Parmesan
Healthy Soft-Baked Oatmeal with Peanut Butter and Peaches
Grilled Halloumi Salad with Tomato and Parsley
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📖 Recipe
Easy Spiced Chicken Salad with Brown Rice
Ingredients
- 2 cups brown rice, cooked
- 4 cups chicken broth, low sodium optional, for cooking rice
- 2 large chicken breasts
- Spice mix for chicken I like ClubHouse's "La Grille" Chicken seasoning or use your favourite dried vegetables seasoning
- Olive oil
- 1 clove garlic minced
- 2 green onions
- 1 lemon
- 1 medium red pepper
- 3 mini cucumbers or 1.5 cups of cucumber, diced
- 3 tablespoon Fresh mint chopped
Instructions
- Cook the rice according to package instructions with chicken broth if using. Set aside to cool.
- While the rice cooks, cut the chicken breasts into bite-sized pieces. Cover with spice mix, turning in spice mix to coat chicken pieces. In a medium pan, heat a drizzle of olive oil on medium heat and cook for about 8-10 minutes until done (internal temperature of 165 degrees F.)
- While the chicken cooks, thinly slice the green onions and separate the white parts from the green tops. Dice the cucumbers and red pepper. Roughly chop the mint leaves.
- For the dressing, combine 3 tablespoon of olive oil, 1 clove of minced garlic, the white bottoms of the green onions, fresh lemon juice from ½ a lemon, and some mint. Whisk until combined.
- To serve, spread the rice out over a large platter, top with the cucumbers, red peppers, the green tops of the green onions and drizzle the dressing over everything.
- Place the chicken on top of the veggies and rice.
- Finish with some lemon zest and fresh ground pepper to taste. Serve.
Notes
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