Greek Chicken Avocado Salad is another meal in a salad! Loaded with Greek flavours and ingredients with a 5-ingredient dressing that doubles as a marinade!
Greek Chicken Avocado Salad is one of our favourites. You might remember this Greek Lemon Garlic Chicken Salad from last year? Well, this salad is EXACTLY the same, without the flatbreads and Tzatziki!
Chicken Salad RECIPE
A couple of weeks ago, we made a video for my Avocado Greek Salad & Greek Salad Dressing and finally got around to posting it last night (good things take time — especially with the amount of clients we have). Well, after videoing that salad, we wanted to eat it with some chicken, so we proceeded to make up some more dressing (that doubles as a marinade — you know how I roll), and grill some chicken breasts. Adding some romaine lettuce to help bulk it up a bit since there were 4 of us hungry people drooling all over each other, I stepped back when it was finished and died a little.
Salad Dressing
Low carb in all its glory filled with everything you find in a Greek salad from good Greek restaurants, this salad would rival any restaurant salad. Green peppers (or capsicums), cucumbers, tomatoes, red onions, Kalamata olives and feta cheese. Plus avocado for the added benefit of health fats; and chicken! Like I say, MEAL IN A SALAD.
As I said, this dressing — down there — also doubles as a marinade.
Marinade
The dressing is made THEN divided to create both the marinade and the dressing. The chicken DOES NOT touch the salad dressing itself.
A loaded salad full of good for you ingredients. It does NOT get any better!
WATCH Greek Chicken Avocado Salad BEING MADE RIGHT HERE!
Try one of these salads next:
Grilled Chicken Cobb Caesar Salad
Garlic Lime Barbecue Chicken Salad
Loaded Greek Chicken Avocado Salad
Ingredients
- 2 skinless boneless chicken breasts large, halved to make four fillets
Dressing / Marinade:
- ¼ cup olive oil
- ¼ cup lemon juice juice of 1 lemon
- 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
- 2 teaspoons garlic minced, or 2 large garlic cloves, minced
- 2 tablespoons dried oregano
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon cracked pepper
For The Salad:
- 4 cups romaine lettuce leaves or cos lettuce, washed and shredded
- 2 Lebanese cucumbers large, halved lengthways and sliced
- 2 vine ripened tomatoes cut into small wedges
- ½ green pepper (or capsicum), deseeded and sliced
- ½ red onion sliced thinly
- 7 oz feta cheese fresh, cubed
- ½ cup pitted Kalamata olives halved lengthways
- 1 avocado sliced
Instructions
- Whisk together all the marinade / dressing ingredients in large, shallow dish. Pour out ½ cup to use as the dressing; reserve in the refrigerator for later to use as the dressing.
- Add the chicken to the marinade in the shallow dish and evenly coat; cover and allow to marinade for 30 minutes.
- While chicken is marinading, prepare all of the salad ingredients (except for the avocado) in a large bowl and mix.
- Heat a large grill pan or cast iron skillet over medium-high heat. Remove the chicken from the marinade and add to the pan along with any marinade left over in the bowl. Grill or sear until the chicken is golden on the outside and cooked through, (about 5-6 minutes each side).
- Remove chicken from the pan and allow to rest for 5 minutes. Slice thickly and arrange over salad. Slice avocados and arrange on salad. Drizzle with the reserved UNTOUCHED dressing, and serve!
Laurence says
Hi, Has anyone tried this with shrimps? I have made this a few times with chicken and everyone really loved it, including kids. I want to make it for a bunch of friends, but one of them is very picky and eats only lamb and seafood…
Katie says
Love this salad! My husband said this is his favorite of any salad I have ever made. The dressing is simple and delicious!
Diane says
Are you sure about the amounts for the dressing? I barely get more than 1/2 c total which leaves very little for the marinade?
Karina says
You are welcome to double the marinade/dressing to cover more. That is not a problem at all.
Jeanne McMenimen says
Same here, dressing only made a half cup.
Kendra says
Made it tonight.. but use steak!! It was wonderful! Love all the flavor’s! Will make this one again.
Karina says
Great tip! A steak sounds good right now;)!
Paula says
This is a keeper. The dressing was really good. my avocado wasn’t ripe enough, so I didn’t add it. Just as well I don’t think of avocados as Greek, though I do love them. In place I added beets