Peruvian Chicken Salad

A flavourful salad with the most delicious green dressing. You can also make the chicken in the cooler months and serve with rice and green beans. Still using the green dressing as a sauce. If you like it spicy, you can also add more chilli powder to the chicken and a green chilli to the dressing

Serves 4

INGREDIENTS

Chicken

1kg chicken thighs, trimmed and cut in half

Large packed of salad leaves (enough for 4 people)

1 large cucumber sliced into ribbons

1 punnett of cherry or mini Roma tomatoes

1 lime juiced

1 TBS smokey paprika

1 tsp cumin

1 tsp garlic powder (or 1/2 tsp Balinga garlic salt - then omit salt below)

1/2 tsp chilli powder (more if you can handle heat)

1/2 tsp salt

2 TBS Great Southern Groves EVOO

Dressing ingredients

1 lime juiced

Bunch coriander* washed, chopped

1/8 red onion chopped fine

1/2 cup plain Greek yoghurt

1/4 cup mayonnaise

2 TBS Great Southern Groves EVOO

Pickled onion for salad

1/8 red onion

1 TBS apple cider or white wine vinegar

1/2 tsp sugar

Pinch salt

METHOD

Chicken

In a large bowl put the lime juice, paprika, cumin, garlic, chilli, EVOO, salt. Mix, add chicken to marinate, coat well.

Oil air fryer basket or oven tray. (Could also cook on BBQ).

Air fry on 180 for 20 mins, turning over half way through.

When cooked, pop on plate and allow to rest for 5 minutes. Then slice.

Salad dressing

Prepare while chicken cooks.

Put all ingredients in a blender and blitz until well combined (I just used a stick blender).

Pickled onion

Combine vinegar, sugar and salt in a small bowl.

Finely slice onion and place in vinegar. Mix well and allow to sit while chicken is cooking.

Remove from vinegar when putting on salad.

To serve:

Pop salad leaves onto 4 plates, or one large.

Top with cucumber ribbons, tomatoes and pickled onion.

Top with chicken and a generous drizzle of the delicious, herby dressing.

*If you are not a fan of coriander you could use mint or parsley however, members of my family hate coriander and they loved this.

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