Mustard chicken salad topped with sliced almonds makes for the perfect easy lunch! Use leftover rotisserie chicken and no cooking required!
Where does the time go?
We’re not even currently traveling, just renting an apartment in Thailand, but there still seems to be no free time during the day.
Hours and hours seem to simply slip past my grip – who knows where they go…
I need to start keeping a time sheet. Just for myself. So that at day’s end I can at least pinpoint how many hours have been spent in total distraction or procrastination.
At least this blog allows me to have some proof of what I’ve been doing.
I know for a fact that yesterday I was making this mustard chicken salad somewhere around 1pm (thanks to the handy dandy timestamp on the camera).
A good start for the time sheet right?
On another note if you’re looking a for a healthy lunch option this mustard chicken salad is it. A great combo of ingredients and a killer dressing.
Seriously mustard + olive oil + lime juice is a match made in heaven.
Lime juice and whole grain dijon mustard are my two favorite ingredients right now. That and mayonnaise. All three together are awesome too, but I think I’ve been having too much mayo lately (full jar gone in a week? Too much?) so olive oil will have to do.
To make this mustard chicken salad easy use leftover rotisserie chicken – that way there is absolutely no cooking required. You just need to assemble this mustard chicken salad on top of leafy greens with avocado, green onions and cucumbers. Drizzle with the dressing and sprinkle with sliced almonds. Lunch is ready!
Let me know what you think of this mustard chicken salad in the comments below. This is currently my go to lunch recipe and it’s much lighter than the heavy mayo loaded chicken salad. Use mustard instead as the base of the dressing and serve on lots of greens!
Healthy, low carb and high protein.
For other high protein salad recipes be sure to check out my chicken romaine salad.
A vibrant and refreshing mustard chicken salad that will bring your taste buds to life. A healthy lunch with chicken, cucumbers, avocado and almonds.
- 1 cup shredded rotisserie chicken
- 1-2 small cucumbers thinly sliced
- bag of salad greens or head of butterhead/Boston lettuce sliced
- 1-2 green onions thinly sliced
- 1/2 avocado cubed
- 1/4 cup sliced almonds
- Dressing:
- 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
- 1 tablespoon whole grain dijon mustard
- 1 lime juiced
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In a small bowl combine dressing ingredients. Whisk until smooth.
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Heat pan over medium heat and lightly toast almonds until lightly browned (no oil, necessary)
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In a large bowl combine shredded chicken, cucumbers, salad greens, green onions, avocado and almonds.
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Top with dressing and toss until combined.
Vittorio says
wooow it’s beautiful that you cook while you are in Thailand. I think that it’s very difficult to stay there and make the blog working and also enjoy the time there. isn’t it? 🙂
Anyway the recipe is beautiful I really prefer only salad, chicken and cucumber. I’m not a mustard fan 🙂
A question, the cooking part is only for the chicken right?
Vicky says
The cooking part is just to toast the almonds if you use store bought rotisserie chicken (which is what I used). Do give the whole grain Dijon mustard a try – I really have become obsessed with it!
suja md says
Tempting salad, I can understand how tough would to publish a post while travelling. You rock as usual dear!!
Vicky says
Aw thanks so much! Hope you enjoy the salad if you try it!
Melissa Belanger - A Teaspoon of Happiness says
I have a serious problem with losing hours of my day to procrastination as well. I’ll start reading something online and suddenly an hour later I’m researching vacations and shopping online for stuff I’ll never buy. It’s a terrible habit of mine. I am really loving this salad. It’s been such a pain to find ingredients here that I’ve pretty much given up any hope of nutrients in my diet. Right now I’m baking some cookies! But, I happen to have all of the ingredients for this salad in my fridge! Cucumbers are one of the few vegetables that are always available here, so I think I’ll make the dressing while the cookies bake and have the salad for dinner tonight! 🙂
Vicky says
Oh I know exactly what you mean. Seriously don’t know where the hours go. So easy to get distracted online. I was just going to ask you how easy it is to find the ingredients you want in Kazahstan (it’s not always so easy in Thailand, and I’m sure there are more expats here opening up stores and supermarkets). I guess at least you have an oven to bake cookies in! : ) Hope you enjoy this salad! Thanks for checking out my blog and taking the time to comment!
Nancy says
Great idea for healthy eating!