Healthy Diet Recipes: Shredded Cumin Chicken With Mango and Chilli Salad
This is a really tasty way to incorporate a rainbow of vegetables into lunch without it feeling too virtuous. Cooking chicken this way makes it soft and juicy, the perfect savoury balance for the sweet spicy salad. For a slight variation, try replacing the cabbage with Chinese leaf.
Prep Time 10 minutes mins
Cook Time 20 minutes mins
Total Time 30 minutes mins
Course Chicken, Easy Recipes, Poultry, Salads
Servings 2
Calories 456.4 kcal
- #For the Chicken#
- 2 medium free-range boneless, skinless chicken breasts (approx. 300g)
- 100% mild and light olive oil spray
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- ½ teaspoon chilli powder
- Pinch of flaked sea salt, such as Maldon
- Freshly ground black pepper
- #For the Salad#
- 150g white cabbage, core removed
- 75g radishes, sliced
- ½ small red onion, cut into half moons
- ½ small ripe mango, cut into thin slices
- 1 red chilli, seeds removed, finely chopped
- About 10 fresh mint leaves
- ½ medium avocado, peeled and sliced into strips
- 1 lime
Place each chicken breast between two sheets of cling film on a chopping board and hit firmly with a wooden rolling pin to flatten to just under 1cm thick (don’t worry if holes or tears appear in the chicken).
Discard the cling film and place the flattened chicken into a bowl spray lightly with oil and coat well with the spices. Season with salt and pepper.
Shred the cabbage very finely with a knife or mandoline, or coarsely grate it. Combine with the other salad ingredients in a bowl and squeeze over the juice of half the lime, cut the remaining half into two wedges to garnish. Mix the lime juice into the salad until the cabbage softens.
Heat a medium non-stick frying pan over a medium heat and add the chicken, cooking for 4 minutes. Turn the chicken over and turn the heat to low. Cover with a lid that stops the steam escaping and continue to cook on the lowest heat for 5 more minutes.
In the pan use two forks to shred the chicken along the grain, soaking up any juice. Be careful not to scratch the pan!
Divide the salad between two plates and top with the chicken and wedges of lime to serve.
Keyword Chicken salad recipes, Diet Recipes, Salad recipes