Chicken kale and walnut salad

original blog post:https://greedygirlcooks.blogspot.com/2021/03/chicken-kale-and-walnut-salad.html

Ingredients

1-2 bunches kale

Parmesan cheese shavings

For the chicken

2 chicken breast

½ teaspoon salt

¼ teaspoon black pepper

1 teaspoon onion powder

½ teaspoon ground allspice

For the walnuts

1 cup walnuts

1 tablespoon honey

¼ teaspoon scotch bonnet pepper sauce (or hot sauce)

½ teaspoon smoked paprika

¼ teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon coconut oil

Instructions

• Clean and slice the whole chicken breast into three pieces horizontally. You should have 6 flat pieces from the two chicken breasts

• season with salt, black pepper, onion powder, allspice

• Combine walnuts, honey, pepper sauce, smoked paprika, salt, and coconut oil make sure all the nuts are coated

• Place walnuts on a lined sheet pan bake in a 350 oven for 10 minutes

• remove from the oven while hot stir to make sure all the melted oil and honey re-coat the nuts and allow it to cool completely, as it cools it gets very crunchy

• Massage the kale until its wilted down and finely chop set aside

• Grill the chicken on a greased grill, they are cut thin so it shouldn’t take more than 2 minutes per side for perfectly cooked juicy chicken breast.

• set the chicken aside and allow it to rest for 5 minutes before slicing.

• Assemble the salad by laying down a bed of massaged kale topped with your favorite low-calorie vinaigrette, walnuts, chicken, and parmesan shavings.