Garden Salad with Grilled Chicken

Vickie’s Garden Salad with Seasoned Chicken

Everyone in my extended family had a vegetable garden. It wasn’t unusual to sit at my grandmother’s dinner table and see a plate of freshly cut tomatoes, or cucumbers next to the main meal.

There was always room for a salad on my Maw Stoots’ table for lunch. She loved garden salads and always fixed one for me when we were in Tennessee for a visit.

As you grow older, your taste buds change. You learn to enjoy the variety of flavors in foods of all kind. And that’s how my Garden Salad with Chicken came about. They’re scrumptious for dinner or lunch.

Preparation time: 45 minutes 

Ingredients:

• 2 chicken breasts
• 1/4 stick of butter or margarine
• 1 tblspn sweet basil
• 1 tblspn parsley
• 1/4 tspn Pepper
• 1/2 tspn Salt
• Your favorite salad fixin’s

Directions:

Garden Salad with BBQ Chicken

• In a large frying pan, melt margarine over medium heat.
• Cube chicken breasts and add them to the frying pan.
• Sprinkle the basil, parsley, pepper and salt onto the chicken.
• Using a fork, mix all the ingredients together and let simmer.
• Continually stir chicken to ensure all sides are being thoroughly cooked.
• Cook until chicken is a medium to dark brown.

Serve:

• Serve warm over your favorite salad ingredients.
• The Salad dish at the top includes, lettuce, sliced cucumbers and broccoli, with carrots and bean sprouts.
• The Salad dish to the right includes, lettuce, sliced cucumbers and a hard-boiled egg, with carrots, tomato and a sprinkle of sliced cheddar cheese.
• Don’t forget to top your salad with your favorite dressing.

Alternatives:

• Replace the basil and parsley with a couple of dashes of your favorite barbecue seasoning while cooking the chicken. It provides an entirely different flavor to your salad.
• Top with your favorite sliced cheese to either dish.

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