Healthy weight loss recipe: Mango smoked chicken and quinoa salad

Whip up this wholesome chicken quinoa salad if you are on a weight loss diet.

Upneet Pansare | Updated: May 7, 2018 2:07 pm

Weight loss food doesn’t have to be bland or expensive. With just a few local ingredients, you can whip up delicious, healthy meals that will help you lose weight while providing you with all the essential nutrients. For this Mango smoked chicken and quinoa salad recipe, Avinash Nalawade, Executive Chef, The Beatle Hotel, Powai of Viiking Ventures, has used seasonal ingredients — ripe and raw mangoes to make a delicious chicken quinoa salad. Did you know that raw mangoes have a host of health benefits including helping fight acne, indigestion and heatstroke? Ripe mangoes have their own set of health benefits— they can help prevent cancer, heart disease, high blood pressure and even make your skin and hair healthier. Here is how you can make this delicious and filling salad for your next lunch.

Ingredients
1 fresh mango
1 chicken breast
Salt and pepper to taste
10 ml olive oil
30 g Quinoa
1 Red bell pepper
1 Yellow bell pepper
A bunch of Iceberg lettuce
A bunch of Lollo rosso (red leaf) lettuce
20 g Raw Mango
2 g Microgreens

For dressing
1 Raw Mango Pulp
30 g Honey
Salt and pepper to taste
Italian lemon zest

Method
1-Soak quinoa for 30 minutes and boil it. Strain it and cool.
2-Cut raw mango into dices and blanch it.
3-Take a chicken breast, apply salt, pepper, olive oil, mustard and grill it. Give a smoke flavour with help of charcoal and wood.
4-Take a salad bowl, mix lettuce, add diced coloured capsicum, ripe diced mango, diced raw mango.
5-Add diced smoked chicken and mixed well.
6-Make a dressing with the dressing ingredients.
7- Cut multigrain bread into very thin long slices and apply mango butter and toast it.
8- Serve salad with toasted multigrain bread with dressing on the side.

Published: May 7, 2018 2:04 pm | Updated:May 7, 2018 2:07 pm

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