Grilled Chicken Salad with Fruit of The Season

Chicken Salad With Fruit is a chicken salad for all seasons, fresh berries in the summer and oranges in the winter. With this Chicken Fruit Salad you can use all of one kind of fruit or mix up your favorites, whether it’s strawberries, blackberries, blueberries or raspberries.

Chicken Salad with Fruit

You can use fresh oranges, or try using mandarin oranges, available at most markets.

This combination of grilled chicken breasts and fruit with red wine vinaigrette and pecans is perfect for those times when you need something just a little extra fancy but not overwhelming.

You may have a hard time not keeping this on your weekly menu!

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Grilled Chicken Salad with Fruit of The Season
Servings: 4
Ingredients
  • 1 pound boneless skinless chicken breasts
  • 1 cup fresh strawberries sliced
  • 1/2 cup pecan halves and pieces
  • 1/2 cup red wine vinegar
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 3/4 cup olive oil
  • 1/2 small sweet onion minced
  • 1 teaspoon ground mustard
  • 1 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground white pepper
  • 2 heads of Bibb lettuce torn into bite sized pieces
Instructions
  1. First make the dressing: Combine the red wine vinegar with the sugar, olive oil, minced sweet onion, mustard and salt and white pepper in a blender and process until smooth.
  2. Refrigerate in a covered container until ready to use.
  3. Light a grill or charcoal barbeque and grill the chicken breasts until cooked through. You can also cook the chicken in your oven broiler - line the broiler pan with foil first.
  4. Set the cooked chicken aside, and when it is cool enough to handle, cut them into slices.
  5. Divide the lettuce on four chilled plates. Top with the grilled chicken slices, then the sliced strawberries and the pecan pieces. Drizzle some of the red wine vinaigrette over the top and serve.
  6. Save any extra dressing for another use.

Food For Thought – As mentioned above, this salad is perfect with any seasonal fruit – just make sure it is ripe! And if you use raspberries, look for a raspberry vinegar for your vinaigrette – cut the amount of sugar in half.

If you think the onion might be too strong, substitute 4 tablespoons of minced shallots. If pecans aren’t your favorite, try using chopped walnuts or almond slivers.

This Chicken Salad with Fruit is versatile so you can use your imagination.

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