Strawberry Chicken Salad with Lemon Poppy Seed Dressing
I have the most amazing salad recipe! It's, sweet, savory, tangy, and crunchy...all in one bite! This strawberry Chicken Salad with Homemade Poppy Seed Dressing is a refreshing salad topped with yummy candied pecans, strawberries, and feta cheese. This salad will energize your tastebuds!
Servings: 4
Calories:
Ingredients
Build your salad:
- Raw baby spinach
- frozen diced chicken about 3 ounces per serving
- Sliced stawberries
- crumbled feta cheese 1 ounce per serving
Candied Pecans:
- 1 Cups Pecans
- ¼ Cup sugar free granulated sweetener (see my favorite on Amazon)
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt
- ½ egg white, beaten until frothy
Lemon Poppy Seed Dressing:
- ¼ cup lemon juice
- 4 Ounces Greek Yogurt
- 2 Tablespoons avocado oil
- 2 teaspoons Lemon Zest
- 1 teaspoon poppy seeds
- 2 teaspoons sugar free powdered sweetener
Instructions
Lemon Poppy Seed Dressing:
- In small mixing bowl, combine your lemon juice, greek yogurt, avocado oil, lemon zest, poppy seeds and powdered sweetener. Whisk until all your ingredients are combined. Makes 4 generous servings
Keto Candied Pecans:
- Preheat the oven to 250F. Line a sheet pan with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat.
- In a mixing bowl, mix together the pecan halves and the egg white. In another large bowl, mix together the sweetener and salt. Add in the pecan halves and the egg white and mix well to coat the pecans.
- Lay the pecans out on the baking sheet in a single layer. Bake in the oven for 30-45 minutes, stirring every 15 minutes. The pecans will brown and get crunchy. Let cool for 10 minutes.
Build your Salad:
- In your salad bowl, add a couple handfuls of baby spinach. Top with strawberry slices, diced chicken (that has been already heated through), candied pecans, feta cheese crumbles and homemade poppy seed dressing. Enjoy!
Notes
Nutrition below is for 1 whole salad which contains 2 cups of baby spinach, 3 ounces of cooked and diced chicken, 1 ounce of crumbled feta cheese, ¼th of the candied pecans recipe, and ¼th of the lemon poppyseed dressing recipe.
Nutrition for the ¼th of the dressing: 88 calories, 8g fat, 2g carbs, 1g fiber, 3g protein
Nutrition for the ¼th of the pecans: 173 calories, 18g fat, 3.5g carbs, 2.4g fiber, 3g protein