One of the best options for a hot summer night is a simple salad topped with chicken. The best thing about salads? Find all your fresh produce that's about to expire and throw it in! This way, you eat all the fruit and vegetables in time and you have a delicious and healthy meal.
Start out with a package of thin-cut chicken breasts or chicken breast tenders, healthier portions than regular chicken breasts. Purdue offers Perfect Portions--each piece of chicken is individually wrapped for convenience. But if you can't find that in the local store, don't worry! Just buy a regular package and wrap up the extra pieces individually in aluminum foil, place them all in a freezer Ziploc bag, and the chicken will stay fresh in the freezer for what seems like forever!
Cut one of the thin cut chicken breasts into 1-inch pieces and season with an Italian seasoning or other flavoring of choice. Heat a pan with a thin coat of olive oil then throw the 1-inch piece of chicken in.
Cutting the chicken allows it to cook faster for people not used to cooking chicken, like myself--you don't want to get salmonella!
When the chicken is fully cooked, find any other ingredients that you would like for your salad. Tonight, I opted for a fresh tomato cut in wedges, sliced celery, and one of my precooked hard boiled eggs.
Another great buy that makes life simpler is a bag of already cooked and peeled hard boiled eggs--how much easier can you get?! They're great for egg salad, sliced eggs on salads like this one, basically anything...and they're easy to find! Trader Joe's sells a bag of six precooked and peeled eggs or you can get a dozen from Eggland's Best at almost any store.
Season with a 2-1 ratio of olive oil to red wine vinegar and salt and pepper to taste. Enjoy, another simple meal in under 10 minutes!
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