Oh-So-Good Summer Berry Chicken Salad Extraordinaire
This is a great salad on hot, summer days. Easy and delicious! The “cooking time” indicated below is for the poached chicken recipe, but if you have pre-cooked chicken on had, this is a fast meal at the last minute!
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 30 mins
- Total Time: 45 mins
- Yield: 4 1x
- Category: Salad
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
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- 1 pint fresh strawberries, washed, trimmed and sliced
- 1/2 pint fresh blackberries, washed
- 8 cups field greens salad mix (pre-washed)
- 2 large frozen chicken breast halves (or 4 chicken breast tenders), poached, cooled and chopped (see Poached Chicken Breast Tenders recipe)
- 1/4 cup Feta cheese, divided
- 1/2 cup walnuts, chopped, divided
- Newman’s Own Lite Raspberry Walnut Salad Dressing
Instructions
- Make chicken per Poached Chicken Breast Tenders recipe or use cooked, pre-packaged chicken or a rotisserie chicken.
- When ready to serve, place 4 salad bowls in freezer to cool for 15 minutes.
- While salad bowls are chilling, chop chicken into chunks and prepare fruit.
- Remove salad bowls from freezer and place 2 cups of field greens in each salad bowl.
- Top each bowl with 1/4 of the strawberries, blackberries, chicken, Feta and walnuts.
- Pass salad dressing so that everyone can add per their own taste.
Notes
Make it your own: (1) use other seasonal fresh berries, such as raspberries and blueberries. (2) don’t like walnuts? Use pecans. (3) Don’t have Feta cheese? Use crumbled goat cheese or gorgonzola or bleu cheese. (4) Add avocados for a creamy texture with every mouthful!
Find it online: https://tootsweet4two.com/summer-berry-chicken-salad/
