Lunch: fresh summer salad with chicken burger

Here is a nice and easy summer salad that I punched together in the hope to save time and energy in the kitchen, because sometimes I just can’t be pooped to slave away for hours, and today is one of those days, especially when the sun is shinning and beckoning me out to enjoy life.

 

Ingredients – chicken burger

• Half an Organic chicken breast
• 1 clove garlic
• lemon thyme (fresh)
• Rosemary (fresh)
• coconut (odourless)

Method

Slice a chicken breast in half, flatten it, then heat up coconut oil in a frying pan, place in the chicken, garlic, thyme and rosemary, fry on both sides for about 7 minutes on either side and it’s ready to serve, check to make sure it’s cooked through before serving.

Salad Ingredients

Salad 1

• Half courgette spiralized
• chopped black kale
• cress

Salad  2

• 1 carrot grated
• 1 grated apple
• handful of chopped coriander
• small amount of chopped red onion

Mix both salads together separately then place in a bowl with the chicken breast , pour the herbs and juices over the top too.

Pesto Ingredients

• 1/4 cucumber chopped
• roughly about 6 tablespoons olive oil
• 1/4 clove of garlic
• handful of basil
• pinch of rock salt

Method

Put all ingredients in a blender for around a minutes, then sprinkle the pesto over the salad, add some pomegranate seeds and it’s ready to munch.

 

 

Lunch:Quick chicken salad with pesto

It’s been a mad week as I had a bad reaction to a temporary tooth filling that was put in, not only was I continuously reacting to it until it got taken out, but then while it was being removed my lip swelled to the size of a greenfinch and became completely numb, even though I didn’t have any injections put in, it was a very distressing and upsetting.  I then had to go to work and everyone thought I’d had lip fillers put in, they were all in hysterics, and to be fair I did look pretty funny. Luckily the swelling had gone by the next day, but still recovering from the reaction as it has set my histamine levels through the roof, it just goes to show you need to be careful when having your teeth done and check what ingredients they are using.

The recipe I have created is nice and simple and quick to make as sometimes it’s nice not to spend so much time in the kitchen, especially when you are feeling rotten.

 

 

Ingredients – chicken salad

• 1 chicken breast chopped
• half a sweetcorn chopped off the core
• 3 spring onions finely chopped
• chopped fresh thyme
• chopped fresh parsley
• chopped fresh salad, half a handful
• half a grated sweet potato
• half a grated carrot
• half a grated beetroot
• small chunk of chopped cucumber
• coconut oil (odourless)
• pinch of rock salt

 

Method

Heat up the  coconut oil, then add in the chicken, sweetcorn, spring onion, thyme and parsley, salt and fry for around 25-30 minutes until cooked through. Then put all the rest of the ingredients into the bowl and then add the chicken mixture into it, then serve with the pesto

 

Ingredients – Pesto

• 1/4 cucumber
• 6 tablespoons olive oil
• handful fresh basil
• half a fresh garlic
• pinch of rock salt

Put all the ingredients into a blender and blend until smooth, then it’s ready to serve.