Chicken with cucumber, orange, and olive salad
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Total time: 1 hr 25 min • Prep: 15 min • Cook: 10 min • Serves: 4 • Difficulty: Easy
A quick marinade made with citrus juice and garlic adds some zing to ordinary chicken breasts. And the sweet and salty Italian-inspired salad made with orange and olives is a colorful, crunchy, and flavourful accompaniment. Here, we’ve used chopped fresh cilantro in the salad but chopped fresh parsley would work well too. While you grill the chicken, throw some veggies on the grill, too. Fast-cooking bell peppers, zucchini, yellow squash, asparagus, or eggplant will be ready in about the same time as the chicken.
Ingredients
Cooking spray
1 spray(s)
Fresh orange juice
½ cup(s)
Fresh lime juice
2 tbsp(s)
Olive oil
1 tbsp(s)
Garlic
2 clove(s), large, minced
Table salt
¾ tsp(s)
Black pepper
¼ tsp(s)
Uncooked boneless skinless chicken breast
20 oz, 4 (5-ounce breasts)
Cucumber
1 medium, peeled, seeded, and diced
Orange
1 medium, navel variety, peeled and diced
Bell pepper
1 item(s), medium, red variety, diced
Cilantro
¼ cup(s), lightly packed fresh leaves
Olives
2 oz, (about 1/4 cup), halved pitted Kalamata variety
Instructions
1
Spray grill rack with nonstick spray. Preheat grill to medium-high or prepare medium-high fire.
2
Whisk together orange juice, lime juice, oil, garlic, 1/4 teaspoon salt, and the black pepper in small bowl. Transfer half of mixture to large zip-close plastic bag; add chicken. Squeeze out air and seal bag; turn to coat chicken. Refrigerate, turning bag occasionally, at least 1 hour or up to 4 hours. Reserve remaining orange juice mixture.
3
Meanwhile, stir together cucumber, orange, bell pepper, cilantro, olives, and remaining orange juice mixture in medium bowl. Set aside.
4
Remove chicken from marinade; discard marinade. Sprinkle chicken with remaining 1/2 teaspoon salt. Lightly spray chicken with olive oil nonstick spray. Place chicken on grill rack and grill, turning frequently, until chicken is cooked through, 8–10 minutes.
5
Place chicken on 4 plates and top evenly with salad.
6
Serving size: 1 chicken breast and 2/3 cup salad
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