High-protein avocado chicken salad, meal prep

Don’t want to bore you with what we ate the other day, but we made a healthy low-carb high-protein avocado chicken salad for lunch that would also be simple to meal prep.

There’s a lot of stuff in there.

Other than, obviously, the chicken and avocado we’ve got an egg, olives, some invisible spinach, cucumbers, tomatoes, scallions, black pepper…

Basically, ALL the things we want to eat when we're hungry.

made this recently again without an egg

Don’t be fooled, this is a salad, but it’s not one of those side dish things. It’s a meal. We still felt light and alive after, because it’s a healthy salad, but it was satisfying.

Also, this high-protein chicken salad is a great paleo and gluten-free lunch recipe. Dare we say even keto?

We have no idea. But could be – there’s some fat in there, almost no carbs.

Someone let us know if we can say we made a keto salad, please! We definitely made something low-carb that has a lot of protein.

How it comes together

So what you need to do here with the chicken: you basically prepare a chicken breast your favorite way. Either in a pan with some herbs and garlic or just boil if you’re feeling lazy (it’s healthier, but we personally wouldn’t enjoy the chicken that much). Whatever you usually do with chicken breast.

We used only one hard-boiled egg, then added some olives, because we need to have olives with everything. And then came the avocado. It’s a good life, we've been buying so many avocados lately and somehow they’re all good. Add the vegetables to feel good.

When you’ve arranged everything, prepare the dressing. We used olive oil, lemon juice and minced garlic (obsessed with garlic right now, making everyone around us happy). We also added some toasted sesame oil, because we LOVE the flavor. But it’s optional if you don’t have it. Something else you can do is toast sesame seeds and sprinkle over the salad – SO GOOD!

What’s important when making this high-protein avocado chicken salad for lunch or dinner is adding salt to taste. The dressing doesn’t have any salt in it, olives have some, but we needed to add a pinch of salt to our serving.

How To Meal Prep

For meal prep this is simple – just cook the chicken breast, boil some eggs and peel them, wash some spinach and air dry it for a little bit, use whole cherry tomatoes and olives. Pack it all without dressing into meal prep containers. These you should be good for about 3 days in the fridge. The solid high-protein lunch recipe!

• Yield: 1
• Prep: 10 minutes
• Total: 10 minutes

Ingredients

• 4 oz /100g chicken breast, cooked
• 1/2 avocado, large
• 1 egg, hard-boiled
• 1/3 cup tomatoes
• 1/2 cup spinach
• 1-2 scallions, thinly chopped
• 1 cucumber, chopped
• 1 tbsp chopped olives

Dressing & Additions

• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 1 clove garlic, minced
• 1 Tbsp lemon juice
• 1 tsp sesame oil (optional)
• salt and pepper to taste

Method

1. Arranging the bowl: Start with a bed of spinach, then arrange tomatoes, avocado, cucumber, olives, chicken, egg, sprinkle chopped scallions, add freshly ground black pepper.
2. Prepare the dressing: Mix olive oil, minced garlic, lemon juice and toasted sesame oil (optional) and add to the salad, combining everything together. When you've mixed everything add salt to taste.

Notes

You can use your favorite type of cooked chicken for this low carb salad - we used a chicken breast that was prepared in a non-stick pan with a little bit of olive oil, black pepper and garlic. If you want to meal prep this salad, know that this is one serving. To make it ahead - use whole cherry tomatoes, don't open the avocado and chop the cucumbers only roughly. Also don't add the dressing, do it right before serving.