It was super hot last week and all I’ve been wanting to eat is fresh fruit and salad. To make salads filling enough to be a meal I like to add hard boiled eggs, cubed chicken, parmesan cheese, and avocado to greens and other veggies. Cucumbers, grated carrots, and different kinds of cheese also make great additions to what we did here, just use the recipe below as a starting point.
Protein Filled Salad (GAPS, Keto friendly)
Protein Filled Summer Salad
If you have leftover meat from grilling, this salad goes together for a good protein-filled meal and no heating up the kitchen!
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Ingredients
- 3 hearts Romaine sliced across
- 1 avocado cut into slices
- 1 chicken breast coooked and cubed
- 5 hard boiled eggs sliced
- 1/2 cup shredded parmesan cheese
- 1/2 cup sunflower seeds
- Ranch Dressing
- Toss all ingredients. If you're not going to eat it all at once top each serving with dressing individually.
Recipe Notes
Net carbs: 6
Nutrition Facts
Protein Filled Summer Salad
Amount Per Serving (1 g)
Calories 365
Calories from Fat 225
% Daily Value*
Fat 25g38%
Carbohydrates 12g4%
Fiber 6g24%
Protein 25g50%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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For more nourishing salad ideas, check out Fresh by Kimi Harris of Nourishing Gourmet!
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OK, so this salad is one that I would make and thoroughly enjoy. I am a salad lover too and every ingredient in this recipe is in my fridge or on my shelves. It will be on my menu any day!!!
The Argentinians DO salads as part of a parilla dinner side dish. Anything that is healthy and on your yummy list goes on with olive oil and your best vinagre and seasonings. But greens, any cooled cooked or raw veggie, potatoes, beets, left over meats (unless you are already including meat from the parilla / grill), cheese or cheeses, fresh or dried herbs, left over this or that, salsa (my addition,) leave our the kitchen sink unless you are really iron deficient,
The parilla dinner would then include grilled MEAT / BEEF I did say Argentine, right? Too much of it, (so then they complain of their liver hurting) but some cheap and unusual cuts. Yes, kidneys on the grill are tasty. And some crusty bread. Oh, and at some moment, Mate, drunk from the gourd. A grass tea, prepared in a gourd and sipped communally through a silver straw that has a strainer on the end, the one in the gourd not in your lips.
So rethink salad ingredients. And now you know that South American food is not hot always corn based, read tortilla, or anywhere near spicy. Buen Provecho. Chao.