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15-Minute Broiled Chicken Salad

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Topic: Cooking and RecipesPublished April 3, 2012
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This quick and easy chicken salad is a perfect lunch or light dinner, making it easy for you to enjoy a great tasting way to receive the health benefits of chicken and salad greens. Our Quick Broil method of cooking helps seal in the chicken's juices making it more tender and flavorful. Feel free to add more vegetables of your liking to the salad greens for extra nutrition.

Prep and Cook Time: 15 minutesr
Serves 4

Ingredients:
• 4 boneless chicken breasts
• 1/2 lb mixed salad greens
• 1/4 cup sliced fresh basil leaves*
• 2 TBS fresh oregano leaves*
• 2 oz gorgonzola cheese
• 2 TBS fresh lemon juice
• Salt and cracked black pepper to taste

Dressing
• 2 TBS fresh lemon juice
• 1 TBS extra virgin olive oil
• Salt and cracked black pepper to taste
*Since the herbs are being used in a salad, there is no conversion for dry herbs. If you don't have these fresh herbs on hand, you can just enjoy the salad without them.

Directions:
1. Preheat broiler on high with rack in the middle of the oven, about 7 inches from the heat source. Place shallow metal ovenproof pan under the heat to get very hot for about 10 minutes.
2. While pan is getting hot, rinse and spin dry salad greens along with basil and oregano leaves. For oregano, simply run your fingers down the stem to remove leaves and place whole in salad.
3. When pan is hot, reduce heat to low, season chicken breasts with a little salt and pepper and place on hot pan skin side up. Return to broiler and cook for about 15 minutes, or until done, depending on the thickness of the breasts. The breasts cook fast because they are cooking on both sides at the same time. This is our Quick Broil cooking method. When chicken is just about done, remove skin and top breasts with a little gorgonzola cheese and return to broiler to melt. (If you're not sure if chicken is done, make a little slice with a small sharp knife to check. It should be only slightly pink.)
4. Toss greens with lemon juice, olive oil, salt, and pepper. Distribute greens onto 4 plates. Place chicken breasts on top of greens. Serve.

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This recipe is from the http://www.whfoods.org website, a very popular website which comes up #1 on a "Google" search for "healthiest foods" and "healthiest recipes." The website provides unbiased information with no commercial interests by the not-for-profit George Mateljan Foundation. George Mateljan is the founder of Health Valley Foods and author of six best-selling books on the Healthiest Way of Eating.

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