Classic greek chicken salad

4 servings
40 min

How to make a classic Greek salad with chicken? Very simple. First, prepare all the necessary ingredients on the list. You can start cooking by dressing. Traditionally, olive oil is used for Greek lettuce, but you can take any vegetable.

In a bowl, combine the olive oil, lemon juice, ground black pepper and salt. Whisk everything together with a fork until smooth.

Now prepare all the other ingredients on the list. Salad leaves can be replaced with a ready-made mixture of salad leaves.

Salt chicken fillet, pepper. Wrap the fillet in foil and bake in the oven at 180 ° C for about 25 minutes until cooked through.

Chop the finished fillet into thin slices. If desired, instead of baking, you can boil the fillet in salted water or fry in a pan.

Wash the cherry tomatoes, cut in half. You can replace cherries with regular tomatoes, which you need to cut into wedges. Tomatoes need juicy but dense. Soft fruits do not hold their shape well, in the process of cutting and cooking they will spread into a shapeless mass and spoil the appearance of the dish.

Wash the cucumbers, dry and cut into semicircles. The skin, if it is not rough, not damaged and not bitter, does not need to be cut.

Wash the bell pepper, remove the seeds and stalk. Cut the flesh into small cubes.

Cut the brynzu into small cubes. Brynza can be replaced with feta or sirtaki. Or other soft cheese, such as mozzarella, Adyghe, curd or melted cream; true, in this case, the salad will be based on the Greek.

Cut the red onion into thin rings. Optionally, you can marinate the onions in a mixture of vinegar and sugar for 20 minutes.

Remove the olives from the brine and dry.

Put the washed salad leaves on the dish. Spread out slices of chicken fillet, cucumber and bell pepper, tomatoes and red onions on top.

Spread the sprines and olives on top. Pour the dressing over the salad. Garnish with fresh basil leaves and you can serve the salad to the table. Enjoy your meal!