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Beetroot and fried chicken salad

A raw beetroot salad, enriched with toasted almonds, diced fried chicken and potatoes.

As beetroot tends to colour everything it touches, you can be sure that your diced chicken will be an unusual but attractive bright pink - children love this!

16,0404.3/5 for 19 ratings

Last modified on: October 16^th 2016

For 4 people, you will need:

1 300 g raw beetroot
2 100 g whole almonds
3 200 g chicken breast
4 2 tablespoons olive oil
5 200 g cooked potato
6 2 teaspoons olive oil
7 3 tablespoons herbs of your choice
8 5 tablespoons French dressing (vinaigrette)
9 salt
10 pepper
Total weight: 960 grams

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Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
20 min.	19 min.	39 min.

Keeping:

Several days in the fridge, covered with plastic film.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 10 min.

Beetroot and fried chicken salad : Photo of step #1

Peel and grate 300 g raw beetroot and put into a salad bowl.

Stage 2 - 3 min.

Beetroot and fried chicken salad : Photo of step #2

Roughly chop 100 g whole almonds.

Stage 3 - 5 min.

Beetroot and fried chicken salad : Photo of step #3

Put into a small frying pan on high heat to dry roast for a few minutes.

You can also do this in the oven.

Transfer to the salad bowl.

Stage 4 - 4 min.

Beetroot and fried chicken salad : Photo of step #4

Dice 200 g chicken breast.

Stage 5 - 7 min.

Beetroot and fried chicken salad : Photo of step #5

Pour 2 tablespoons olive oil into a frying pan on medium heat.

When really hot, add the diced chicken and fry.

When nicely browned all over, add to the salad bowl.

Stage 6 - 7 min.

Beetroot and fried chicken salad : Photo of step #6

Chop 200 g cooked potato into small pieces (here I am using left-over potato grenaille) and fry in a frying pan with 2 teaspoons olive oil.

When browned, add to the salad bowl.

Stage 7 - 3 min.

Beetroot and fried chicken salad : Photo of step #7

Chop the herbs and add to the salad with 5 tablespoons French dressing (vinaigrette) to finish. Mix well.

Remarks

For the full "pink effect" mentioned above, be sure to leave the salad to rest for at least 30 minutes before serving.

Nutritional information

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 4 people : 9.34 €
Per person : 2.34 €

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Source

Home made.

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	Cooked potato: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Eggs Comtoise, Croque-monsieur gourmand, Potatoes with bacon and herbs, Artichokes with beef, Gratin du Nord, ... All
	Chicken breast: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Chicken breasts with tarragon, Chinese Soup, Thai-style Chicken with Cashew Nuts, Sliced chicken with mushrooms and broccoli, Chicken club sandwich, ... All
	Whole almonds: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Grandma Solange's biscuits, Piped petits-fours, Chocolate Truffles, Praline rochers, Frozen Nougat, ... All

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