Tropical Chicken Salad with Honey Roasted Cashews
WITH Jazmyn McKinnie
Dinner/Lunch • 25 mins • Serves: 4 • Cost: $21.15 approx. ($5.30/serve)
INGREDIENTS
- 2 chicken breasts
- 2 cups spinach
- 1 mango
- 1 punnet cherry tomatoes
- ½ cucumber
- ¼ tsp chilli flakes
- ½ can beans
- ½ cup cashews
- 1 lime
- 1 T + 1 tsp honey
- 1 crushed garlic clove or 1 tsp garlic paste
- Extra virgin olive oil
- Coriander to serve
METHOD
- Preheat oven to 150oC (fan-forced).
- Mix cashews with 1 tsp honey, 1 tsp olive oil and ¼ tsp salt & pepper.
- Cook in the oven for 10mins.
- Dressing: Mix lime juice, 1 T honey, garlic, 2 T olive oil, ¼ tsp chilli flakes, salt & pepper.
- Marinade chicken in 2 T of the dressing.
- Heat a drizzle of olive oil on a grill pan at medium heat.
- Cook chicken 10 – 12 mins on each side.
- Prepare salad: Dice mango, slice cherry tomatoes, peel cucumber to make ribbons.
- Construct salad: Put all raw salad ingredients together, add chicken, beans & cashews.
- Serve with rest of dressing and coriander.
