Grilled Lemon Herb Mediterranean Chicken Salad with a dressing that doubles as a marinade!
This Grilled Lemon Herb Mediterranean Chicken Salad recipe is as close to perfect as you can get! Full of Mediterranean flavours: olives, tomatoes, cucumber, avocados, and chicken for a complete meal in a salad bowl!
Chicken Salad Recipe
With all of the salads I post on here, like the delicious Chicken Shawarma Salad, and Honey Mustard Chicken Salad, I thought some readers might be getting sick of these ‘whole meal salad’ recipes. BUT. It turns out, you guys are wanting MORE of these GIANT salads. Wracking my brains for another awesome recipe, what’s better than a fresh, mediterranean salad with so much flavour, you won’t be able to put your forks down? Yes, I sound like an infomercial. No, I don’t care.
Salad dressing
As usual, I always try to create salad recipes that you only need ONE dressing/marinade. A salad that uses one thing for two uses. This comes from years of making salads that require completely different marinades for chicken or the meat of choice, then drowning it in a completely different tasting dressing, only confusing my brain and taste buds even more. Why do that when you can create one delicious marinade and use it as a dressing? That kinds makes more sense.
Optional additions
You can ALSO top it with some crumbled feta or goats cheese, which I didn’t have at the time, BUT it’s included in the recipe as an option for you to enjoy!
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Lemon Herb Mediterranean Chicken Salad
Ingredients
Marinade/Dressing:
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- ¼ cup lemon juice juice of 1 lemon
- 2 tablespoons water
- 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
- 2 tablespoons fresh parsley
- 2 teaspoons dried basil
- 2 teaspoons garlic minced
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1 teaspoon salt
- cracked pepper to taste
- 1 pound skinless boneless chicken thigh fillets or chicken breasts
Salad:
- 4 cups Romaine lettuce or Cos lettuce leaves, washed and dried
- 1 cucumber large, diced
- 2 Roma tomatoes diced
- 1 red onion sliced
- 1 avocado sliced
- ⅓ cup pitted Kalamata olives or black olives, sliced - optional
- 2 lemon wedges to serve
Instructions
- Whisk together all of the marinade/dressing ingredients in a large jug. Pour out half of the marinade into a large, shallow dish. Refrigerate the remaining marinade to use as the dressing later.
- Add the chicken to the marinade in the bowl; marinade chicken for 15-30 minutes (or up to two hours in the refrigerator if time allows). While waiting for the chicken, prepare all of the salad ingredients and mix in a large salad bowl.
- Once chicken is ready, heat 1 tablespoon of oil in a grill pan or a grill plate over medium-high heat. Grill chicken on both sides until browned and completely cooked through.
- Allow chicken to rest for 5 minutes; slice and arrange over salad. Drizzle salad with the remaining UNTOUCHED dressing. Serve with lemon wedges.
Erica Blanche says
Fantastic! I used the dressing to marinade chicken breasts which I cooked up and diced to add on top. Delish!! Saving this one!
Wendy Mazerolle says
THESE RECIPIES LOOK REALLY DELICIOUS! IVE ORDERED SOME FROZEN CHICKEN BREASTS FROM OMAHA STEAKS IN THE USA. THEY SHOULD BE HERE IN A WEEK OR SO. I WAS THINKING ABOUT MAKING CHICKEN SALADS WITH THEM. IVE GOT ONE RECIPIE WITH POPPY SEEDS AND PECANS I FOUND ON-LINE.THANK YOU FOR THE SEARCH, ILL LET YOU KNOW IF ANY OF THEM TURN OUT VERY GOOD!!
Kara says
I never thought I’d comment on a recipe but I am in love with this salad! The dressing is outrageously delicious, I cannot wait to make it again. I added some cooked farro to bulk it out a bit (I need more carbs for endurance training) and it was a perfect, healthy and filling meal.
Sridhar says
Followed the recipe, tossed the salad and it was delicious.
Jason says
The salad dressing is now my number 1 go to salad dressing. I was wondering if I made the dressing in bulk how long it would keep in the fridge, or even if i bottled it the lemon juice and vinegar should make it acid enough to keep well?
Merve says
I was looking for chicken salad recipes and came across your page. I have made this for me and my boyfriend and we loved it!!! Thank god I made too much so we kept eating it for the next coupe of days. Thank you for this cool summer recipe :))