A super-green, healthy mix of soya beans, cucumber, avocado and Little Gem lettuce – topped with lean shredded chicken breast

Vitality chicken salad with avocado dressing recipe

Ingredients

  • handful frozen soya beans
  • 1 skinless cooked chicken breast, shredded
  • ¼ cucumber, peeled, deseeded and chopped
  • ½ avocado, flesh scooped out
  • few drops Tabasco sauce
  • juice ½ lemon, plus a lemon wedge
  • 2 tsp extra-virgin olive oil
  • 5-6 Little Gem lettuce leaves
  • 1 tsp mixed seed

Method

  • Blanch the soya beans for 3 mins. Rinse in cold water and drain thoroughly. Put the chicken, beans and cucumber in a bowl.

  • Blitz the avocado, Tabasco, lemon juice and oil in a food processor or with a hand blender. Season, pour into the bowl and mix well to coat.

  • Spoon the mixture into the lettuce leaves (or serve it alongside them) and sprinkle with the seeds. Chill until lunch, then serve with a lemon wedge.

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