Roast chicken salad with almonds and carrots, a healthy and delicious recipe.
Easy and fun to make, bringing freshness and digestibility to the palate, a low-calorie salad, perfect for staying in shape. A really simple dish, with few ingredients, but super tasty.
Let’s start with the roast chicken, which you can use ready-made, add carrots, lettuce, Asiago cheese, and almond flakes, spectacular. It’s all prepared cold, and what’s better in this scorching summer?
An easy and quick recipe to prepare
Moreover, this salad is very easy to prepare and doesn’t take much time. It’s perfect for those who have little time to spend in the kitchen or want to bring with them a tasty meal to enjoy at the office or during a picnic.
Here are some more delicious salads:
- Difficulty: Very easy
- Cost: Cheap
- Preparation time: 25 Minutes
- Portions: 4 people
- Cooking methods: No cooking
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: Spring, Summer, and Autumn
- Energy 313.42 (Kcal)
- Carbohydrates 8.28 (g) of which sugars 4.15 (g)
- Proteins 21.10 (g)
- Fat 21.58 (g) of which saturated 2.33 (g)of which unsaturated 4.49 (g)
- Fibers 3.24 (g)
- Sodium 374.20 (mg)
Indicative values for a portion of 228 g processed in an automated way starting from the nutritional information available on the CREA* and FoodData Central** databases. It is not food and / or nutritional advice.
* CREATES Food and Nutrition Research Center: https://www.crea.gov.it/alimenti-e-nutrizione https://www.alimentinutrizione.it ** U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central, 2019. https://fdc.nal.usda.gov
Ingredients for roast chicken salad with almonds and carrots
- 1 whole chicken, skinless, cooked, roasted (boned)
- 9 oz carrots
- 3.5 oz Asiago cheese
- 5.5 oz lettuce
- 1 oz almond flakes
- 1 lemon (juice)
- to taste salt
- to taste pepper
- to taste extra virgin olive oil
Tools
recommended tools:
- Cutting Board Extra Thick High Quality Bamboo Cutting Boards Set 3 Pieces – 13×8.7in / 11×8.7in / 8.7×5.9in – Ideal for Cutting Meat, Vegetables, Cheese, and Bread
- Bowl Bormioli Rocco Basic Salad Bowl Set 4 Pieces
- Knife Stainless Steel Meat Knife, Kitchen Cleaver with Ergonomic Handle, 6.7in Vegetable Knife, Professional Forged Meat Knife, Chef and Butcher Knife for Meat and Vegetables.
Steps
Let’s start with the chicken, which should be cold or warm, remove the bones, and shred the meat into strips
Wash and peel the carrots, slice them into thin ribbons using the peeler.(for purchase click here) Meanwhile, toast the almond flakes in a pan without adding anything, for a few minutes. Also, slice the Asiago into strips
Wash the lettuce, dry it, and gather everything in a large bowl, season with oil, salt, pepper, and lemon juice. Serve
Tips and variations for roast chicken salad with almonds and carrots
If you don’t have time to toast the almonds, you can add them coarsely chopped directly to the salad. You can enrich the salad with other ingredients, like olives, celery, or fennel.
FAQ (Questions and Answers)
Can I use leftover chicken to make the roast chicken salad with almonds and carrots?
Of course, actually it would be the best choice
