Recipe: Delicious salad with chicken & beluga lenses

This salad is a favourite. I love it ♥

This chicken salad is perfect for a hot summer day, where you don’t want to eat lots of hot food.

The chicken is cooked in the oven with lots of delicious lemon & then mixed with arugula & beluga lenses.

Beluga lenses are really delicious in a salad.
Beluga lenses, got their name as they look a lot like beluga caviar. Did you know that? 😉

This is a very satiating salad. Serve with a delicious baguette 🙂
I will recommend that you make your own baguette (I have a recipe on baguettes, that are really easy & fast to make – They can be stored in the freezer too, for next time 😉 ) or buy a good baguette at the baker 🙂

The chicken & the beluga lenses are cooking exact the same amount of time – 20 minutes.
Therefore … When you have put the chicken in the oven, then immediately start cooking the lenses.
If you do that, both things are done at the same time – Cook smart 😉

In the 20 minutes it is cooking, you could prepare the salad.

Recipe

Yield: 4 persons

Ingredients:

• 4 chicken breasts (500 grams)
• 2 lemons
• 1 bag of beluga lenses (1 dl)
• 1 bag of arugula (150 grams)
• 1 bundle of scallions
• 1 parmesan
• 1 avocado
• 2 tsp fresh or dried thyme
• 1 clove of garlic
• 1 tsp honey mustard
• Olive oil
• Sea salt

How to make it:

• Make the dressing:
  – In a bowl, add –  ½ dl olive oil, 1 clove of garlic (pressed), lemon juice (From 1 lemon), honey mustard & thyme
  – Mix it well, and put a side
• Grate 2 lemons – Finely
• Rinse the chicken & cut of the tendons
• Putthe chicken in a freezing bag or container & add 4 tbsp olive oil, sea salt & finely grated lemon zest
• Shake & mix it all well together. Put a side
• Pre heat the oven to 180 degrees, hot air
• Add the chicken breasts to a ovenproof dish & put i the oven for 20 minutes
  – Leave to cool, when they are done
• Make the lenses – Add 1 dl lenses to a pot & add 2 dl water
• Let it simmer for aprox. 20 minutes
  – Leave to cool, when they are finish
• Wash the arugula
• Add the arugula to a bowl & wix it well with the dressing (It is easiest to use your hands for this 😉 )
• Wash the scallions & cut them into thin & diogonal slices
• Peel the avocado & remove the stone
• Slice the avocado thinly
• Add the lenses & mix it
• When the chicken has cooled down, then cut thin slices of it
• Add chicken to the salad
• Sprinkle with parmesan flakes – I use my mandoline slicer for this (1,5 mm) for this (which I love very much)

→ Serve with a delicious baguette 🙂