Refreshingly basic, Strawberry Avocado Salad with Balsamic Chicken is like springtime in a bowl. Fresh new, juicy strawberries, creamy avocado, crunchy pistachios and pan-seared chicken is nestled in a bed of greens and drizzled with a sweet-savory balsamic dressing.  Healthy, speedy and quick!

I’m constantly dazzled by a wonderful salad…one that is loaded with fresh, bright substances like this Barbecue Chicken Chopped Salad. Drizzled with herby, flavorful dressings and sprinkled with crunchy matters.  It’s like foods art…like you could body it and dangle it on your wall. And some salads are so stunning that if you did dangle them on the wall there would, inevitably, be a puddle of drool on your ground which could generate a slipping hazard triggering your unannounced neighbor to slip and slide. Breaking their tailbone and becoming laid up for the full summer months.  Then, of system, you’d experience terribly and hook them up with a cocktail though they float around in your pool as they heal. Ok…so it's possible we shouldn’t dangle photographs of salad on the wall but…instead let’s whip them up in the kitchen….like my new beloved, Strawberry Avocado Salad with Balsamic Chicken. Hello, lover.

And since this is the time of yr when I try to pull matters back together….reset the healthy taking in meter, so to communicate.  When the climate receives hotter and I know that I’ll eventually have to put on a pair of shorts, I do my greatest to take in a minor lighter, a minor leaner, a minor brighter.  Salads, like this Italian Lentil Salad, are constantly my go-to simply because you can layer them with taste with out packing in the energy. Fresh new substances get started to pop up in the farmer’s markets and this is wherever I go for my salad inspiration.

Strawberries are seeking mighty high-quality suitable now so I picked up a basket and a handful of avocados. They are, like, my beloved flavors suitable now, the sweet/tart strawberries pared with buttery avocado just works in a magical way.  I pan seared a chicken breast and then “braised” it, sorta, in a Brown Sugar Balsamic sauce which doubled as the base for a syrupy vinaigrette.  That’s how this Strawberry Avocado Salad with Balsamic Chicken was born….it was type of genius, if you ask me.  One much less dish to clean!

I organized a pile of greens on a platter then topped them with the strawberries, avocados and chicken, sprinkled on some thinly sliced red onion, chopped pistachios and drizzled with my heat pan vinaigrette. The whole thing comes jointly in about 20 minutes….served heat it helps make a superb major system salad deserving of entertaining, serve it chilled for a super tasty workday lunch with a side of this Chilled Strawberry Soup.  Either way, your tastebuds are likely to beg you to make this Strawberry Avocado Salad with Balsamic Chicken pretty on a regular basis.  And so will your full loved ones.

Strawberry Avocado Salad with Balsamic Chicken

Elements

• one tablespoon olive oil
• 2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
• one/four cup brown sugar
• one/four cup balsamic vinegar
• one tablespoon Dijon mustard
• one teaspoon dried thyme
• 7 cups baby spinach or discipline greens, washed and dried
• 2 cups sliced strawberries
• one substantial avocado, pitted and sliced
• one tiny red onion, thinly sliced
• one/2 cup chopped pistachios