Greek island salad with chicken & avocado

Greek island salad with chicken & avocado

Jill Dupleix's colourful and summery avocado salad is perfect for a casual buffet

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 6

Preparation and cooking times

Total time

Takes 30-40 minutes

Method

  1. Pull the meat from the chicken and shred it roughly. Trim the base from each lettuce, wash and dry the leaves, then roughly shred them. Cut the tomatoes into wedges. Finely slice the spring onions (using both white and green parts). Cut the avocados in half lengthways, remove the stones and peel. Cut crosswise into slices, and squeeze with lemon juice. Crumble the feta cheese with your fingers and toss it with the dried oregano and mint. Pick the leaves off the parsley and set aside.
  2. Whisk the 3 tbsp of lemon juice with the olive oil, sea salt and pepper. In a large bowl, toss the chicken, lettuce, tomatoes and spring onion, then fold through three quarters of the dressing with the avocados (carefully, so the avocados don't break up). Season with salt and pepper, then scatter over the feta, olives and parsley, and drizzle with the rest of the dressing. Squeeze extra lemon juice on top, and serve with pitta bread if you wish.

PER SERVING

521 kcalories, protein 31g, carbohydrate 5g, fat 42 g, saturated fat 12g, fibre 3g, salt 2.05 g

Recipe from Good Food magazine, August 2002.

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  • 2007-11-17 12:29:30.247157

    Jane rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    This is the very best salad recipe ever! It will instantly transport you to the Greek Island of your dreams! I make it whenever I have to entertain for summer lunch & everyone it is ever served to loves it. If you only want to make a smaller number of portions use ready-cooked chicken breast or roast chicken breasts in the oven for 20 minutes. I like to use lots of cherry tomatoes & extra olives.

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  • 2008-03-31 20:15:18.200522

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  • 2009-09-28 12:22:40.350902

    Tiny rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    This is a wonderfully fresh and light salad & I have made it on numerous occasions with several variations. I don't always include chicken as Hubby can't eat it. I also often use basil instead of the parsley. If pushed for time try using a couple of drained packs of cubed feta and olives available in supermarkets as a quick and easy alternative to cubing and mixing with the herbs as it works just as well but do drain all the oil off. Always goes down well as a starter (a really good stand by) but also in larger quantities as a main salad meal. Fabulous!

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  • 2010-05-13 20:08:05.854216

    Nikki Holt commented on this recipe

    Recommend trying this recipe! It was really tasty and easy to prepare as a quick summer tea.

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  • 2010-05-23 19:05:23.811032

    Matt rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    Very nice summer meal! Don't like olives so substituted them for sundried tomatoes. Worked a treat!

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  • 2010-05-25 22:12:33.627737

    Lorraine rated and commented on this recipe

    1 stars

    Chicken and feta is not a good combination; the flavour of the feta completely overwhelmed the chicken. I would advise using one or the other.

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  • 2012-01-04 20:24:51.757212

    Mary commented on this recipe

    Chicken and feta absolutely go together! I love it!

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 6

Preparation and cooking times

Total time

Takes 30-40 minutes

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521 kcalories, protein 31g, carbohydrate 5g, fat 42 g, saturated fat 12g, fibre 3g, salt 2.05 g

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