Kim and Jer Inspired Greek Chicken and Salad
A healthy and Fast Chicken dinner with tasty veggies
Equipment
- 1 frying pan heavy bottomed is best but can be done on something else
- 1 sharp knife
- 1 cutting board
Ingredients
Salad
- 1 large or 3 small Avocados
- 1/4 medium red onion
- 1 cup mixed olives I get these at the deli. Try to get the freshest you can find... they have more flavor that way.
- 1/2 cup whole fat feta cheese
- 1 cup tomatoes chopped up get the best you can find, I found great looking grape tomatoes for the pictures and it was perfect but I've used lots of different kinds. Flavor will matter more than type.
- 1 cucumber chopped into chunks
Chicken
- 4 chicken breasts Either cut these into pieces or bust out your mallet (heavy pan works too) and smash that chicken to even thickness.
- 1 tbsp italian seasoning it's ok to guess here!
- 1 tbsp garlic powder
- 1 tbsp dried oregano
- 1/2 tsp dried rosemary
- 1 tsp red wine vinegar
- 1 tsp white wine vinegar or rice wine vinegar what is important here is the lighter flavor. You want the red wine vinegar flavor to be dominant but not overpowering.
- 2 tbsp olive oil you'll taste this so get the best you can
Instructions
Order of Operations
- You know you want to know what order to cook this in! It makes things faster and more efficient. Make the salad first, it’s best if it marinates in theflavors for a bit. It’s fine to marinateovernight or to marinate for 15-20 minutes. If you marinate it overnight the avocado will likely be slightly brownbut will taste just fine. Then prep thechicken. Finally cook the chicken. If you’re doing one batch of chicken (2-3chicken breasts) it’ll go pretty quick. If you’re like me where you cook 2-3lbs of meat at a time it’ll cook inabout 15-20min.
Making the Salad of Yum
- Gather your ingredients and a bowl. I like to use the serving bowl to make the salad because then it's one less thing to wash.
- Peel the cucumber and slice off the tips. Cut the cucumber in half lengthwise and then cut the strip in half again. You'll now have four long strips of cucumber. Line 'em up and whack at them with a knife... just kidding! chop them into similarly sized pieces thing 1/2 in thick. Dump them in the bowl.
- Cut your avocado in half and remove the pit. Lightly, so that you don't pierce the skin, cut through the avocado and make a grid. You're basically cutting the avocado into bite sized pieces the lazy man's way. Now get a largeish spoon and scoop out the avocado meat into the salad bowl.
- grab your tomatoes and chop em up into bite sized pieces. This is personal preferece really. In Greece they had large chunks I like to have smaller chunks so I can fit all the flavors in one bite.
- Peel and chop your red onion into small pieces. Think minced but don't stress about it if you have a few larger chunks. Sometimes I leave these in a small bowl because the smaller pickier eaters in my family don't care for onion. Or you could chop them really small and make everyone eat it :)
- Dump feta cheese into the bow. Measure with your soul.
- Dump in the olives
- Pour in the oil and vinegars and stir. If you want you can add in salt and pepper but I usually leave it out.
- Set the bowl aside until you're ready to eat. It can be overnight or on the table. Either is fine but if the avocados sit overnight they will look slightly brown. They will taste awesome but look different.
Make the Chicken...mmmm chicken
- Cut the chicken breasts into pieces of even thickness or smash them into even thickness. This prevents overcooking that super thin tip and undercooking the thick meaty part. Put them in a bowl.
- Pour olive oil and herbs onto the chicken and stir it up. Let it sit as long as you want. Ideally it should sit for 20 minutes realistically it depends on when the beasts get hungry and you get off work.
- Pre-heat a heavy bottomed pan. Once the pan is hot add in a glug of cooking oil (avocado preferred) and then add in the chicken. Cook until the chicken shows no pink. This can vary depending on the piece of chicken. It should be firm to the touch and if you cut it open no pink.
- Once the chicken is cooked set it on a plate and keep going until all your chicken is cooked.
Notes
This can easily be done with bone in chicken and using a grill to cook. I used chicken breasts because they're cheaper and a pan because sometimes I don't feel like grilling. Also not everyone has a grill... most people have a pan.
We like to eat this with a good hearty bread to dip in the salad juices.