Garlic Lemon Chicken Salad w/ Glazed Onions Mustard Dressing

Garlic Lemon Chicken Salad with Glazed Onions Mustard Dressing is a super easy and healthy meal with lots of flavors, from easy to use Pop & Cook Crushed Garlic and Sautéed Glazed Onions.

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Garlic Lemon Chicken Salad as a healthy option for New Year

It’s the beginning of the New Year and it seems like almost everyone is looking for healthy food options. While some suggest that “healthy” comes at the expense of “flavorful”, this is just one recipe that challenges that preconception. This awesome Garlic Lemon Chicken Salad with Glazed Onions Mustard Dressing is my newest food obsession. I can literally eat it every day. It’s full of flavor yet very easy to make.

It’s amazing how new beginnings (like a New Year) can provide a jump start for people and introduce them to new habits.

I’m all for it. Habits like:  Healthy eating, Mindful eating (for me it means slow down and cherishing every bite…. I eat way too fast). to practicing Yoga, to drinking lemon water with honey and apple cider vinegar; or drinking a glass of beet kvas (oh yeah, it’s super healthy; soon I will show you how to make it) and lots of warm water (yes, you heard it right, warm water not ice cold; it is so much better for your body), and green/detox teas; these are all things that I like to incorporate on a daily basis, but which sometimes I need a reminder like New Years to get me back on track. You know what I mean.

To help out with this “new me” resolution  I created this wonderful round-up of 35 Amazing Detox Salads to help us all stay on track. I hope you like them as much as I do.

But I digress… As I mentioned above this Garlic Lemon Chicken Salad with Glazed Onions Mustard Dressing is super easy to make. You’ll use garlic and onions but surprise, you won’t have to chop either of them! No chopping, no mess, no waste and when it comes to onions and best yet no more tears! Isn’t that awesome? It’s my newest kitchen hack.

I found these Pop & Cook Crushed Garlic and Sautéed Glazed Onions in my local Walmart freezer section. For the time being, this product is exclusively available in Walmart. I only purchased garlic and onions, but you can also find chopped ginger, basil and cilantro.

That’s awesome because I love to have fresh herbs and the ability to forgo the washing and chopping is a win-win. At their peak freshness, Pop & Cook pulls these ingredients from the fields, processes and then flash freezes them into their convenient trays – all within 90 minutes of harvest. Now that’s fresher than fresh!

How to make this chicken salad

I want to tell you how I made this Garlic Lemon Chicken Salad with Glazed Onions Mustard Dressing using Pop & Cook Crushed Garlic and Sautéed Glazed Onions.

• First I created a marinade for the chicken with the following ingredients:
  • 4 crushed garlic cubes (1 cube = 1 clove) – for a quick defrost I popped it in a microwave for 10 seconds;
  • 1 juiced Meyer lemon – I used Meyer lemon just because I happen to have one and I love them, but no stress there, a regular lemon will do just fine too;
  • Maple syrup;
  • Extra virgin olive oil;
  • Italian seasoning;
  • Salt & Pepper
• Then I placed 4 chicken thighs in the big zip lock bag and poured the marinade over them; massaging a little bit to ensure that all the chicken pieces are covered evenly;
• You can marinade the chicken while you’re preparing the salad ingredients, or you can make it ahead of time, even a night before and refrigerate before cooking;
• Next chop the salad ingredients: lettuce, cucumber, onions & tomatoes;
• Prepare the dressing:
  • 2 Sautéed Glazed Onions cubes (pop in the microwave for 10 seconds for a quick defrost);
  • Whole Grain Dijon Mustard;
  • Extra Virgin Olive Oil;
  • Red wine vinegar;
  • Maple Syrup;
  • Salt & Pepper.
• Heat up a cast iron skillet or a homemade grill and cook the chicken on both sides until cooked through for about 6 minutes;
  • You can add some oil to the skillet or brush the grill with some oil to avoid sticking;
  • You can also add the leftover marinade to the skillet for more flavor;
  • Once the chicken is cooked remove from the skillet and let rest for approximately 3 minutes before cutting. 
• Assemble the salad:
  • You can serve the salad “family style” on a plate with the dressing on a side or mix everything into one big bowl with the dressing. If serving on a plate:
    • create a bed of lettuce;
    • add cucumbers, tomatoes and onions on one side of the plate;
    • place sliced avocado adjacent to it;
    • then add sliced chicken on the remaining lettuce;
    • Serve with dressing on the side.

As you can see this salad is super easy to make and yet very impressive. In fact, the ability to have a super flavorful Garlic Lemon Chicken Salad and Glazed Onions Mustard Dressing without the need to chop garlic and onions is fantastic. It saves a ton of time that you can actually be spent with your family instead of in the kitchen, chopping and sautéing. Enjoy this simple flavor salad and good luck keeping your New Years resolutions alive! 🙂

Garlic Lemon Chicken Salad with Glazed Onions Mustard Dressing

Garlic Lemon Chicken Salad with Glazed Onions Mustard Dressing is a super easy and healthy meal with lots of flavor, from easy to use Pop & Cook Crushed Garlic and Sautéed Glazed Onions.

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Course: Healthy lunch, Main Dish, Salad

Cuisine: Healthy

Prep Time: 15 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes minutes

Total Time: 25 minutes minutes

Servings: 4

Calories: 468kcal

Author: Edyta

Ingredients

• 4 Chicken thighs boneless, skinless
• 4 cups Romaine lettuce chopped
• 1 cup Cherry tomatoes cut in half
• 2 Persian cucumbers cut into chunks
• 1/2 Red Onion small, thinly sliced
• 1 Avocado sliced
• 1 teaspoon Parsley chopped for garnish
• 1 tbsp Cooking oil

For chicken marinade

• 4 cubes Pop & Cook Crushed Garlic defrosted
• 1 Meyer Lemon juiced
• 2 tbsp Olive Oil Extra Virgin
• 2 teaspoon Maple syrup
• 1/2 teaspoon Salt
• 1/4 teaspoon Black Pepper Freshly grounded
• 1 teaspoon Italian Seasoning

For salad dressing

• 2 cubes Saute Glazed Poop & Cook Onions defrosted
• 1 teaspoon Whole Grain Dijon Mustard
• 1 teaspoon Maple syrup
• 4 tbsp Olive Oil Extra Virgin
• 2 tbsp Red Wine Vinegar
• 1/4 teaspoon Salt
• 1/4 teaspoon Black Pepper Freshly grounded
• 1-2 tbsp water to thin it out if it become to thick

Instructions

• Place Pop & Cook garlic in a little bowl and microwave for 10 seconds to defrost it.
• In a bowl, combine all chicken marinade ingredients and mix well. Place chicken into a large zip lock bag and pour over the marinade. Marinate at least 15 minutes and up to overnight;
• Chop lettuce and set aside;
• Chop cucumbers, tomatoes, onions and mix together;
• Heat up cooking oil in the cast iron skillet or brush grill and cook chicken on both sides until cooked through and internal temperature reaches 165F for about 5-7 minutes. Remove from the pan, let rest for about 3 minutes and then cut in slices;
• In the meantime, place Saute Glazed onions cubes in a bowl and microwave for 10 seconds to defrost it. 
• Combine all the salad dressing ingredients, mix well and set aside;
• On a large plate spread the lettuce, add cucumber, tomatoes and onions mixture to 1/3 of the plate;
• Slice the avocado and place on another 1/3 of the plate;
• Add sliced chicken on the last 1/3 of the plate and serve the salad family style with the dressing on a side.

Notes

You can also serve the salad already dressed. Place all the ingredients in a large bowl, pour over the dressing and mix well. 

 

Nutrition

Calories: 468kcal | Carbohydrates: 12g | Protein: 23g | Fat: 36g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Cholesterol: 107mg | Sodium: 563mg | Potassium: 737mg | Fiber: 5g | Sugar: 5g | Vitamin A: 4375IU | Vitamin C: 16.4mg | Calcium: 51mg | Iron: 2.2mg

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