Chicken & Lentil Salad With Pesto Dressing
This chicken and lentil dish is full of the good stuff. You'll whip up a delicious pesto dressing to flavour your sweet cherry tomatoes, roasted green beans & toasted walnut-topped salad.
Ingredients for 2 people
Cooking for 3? 1 and a half for each ingredient Cooking for 4? Double each ingredient
You'll also need
Olive oil, Pepper, Salt (or dietary alternatives)
Cooking instructions
Instructions for 2 [for 3] [for 4] portion recipe.
Preheat the oven to 220°C/ 200°C (fan)/ gas 7
Drain and rinse your green lentils
Add your chicken breast portion[s] to a tin foil-lined baking tray with a drizzle of olive oil and a generous pinch of salt and pepper
Put the tray in the oven for an initial 8 min
Trim, then chop your green beans in half
Cut your cherry tomatoes in half
Once the chicken has had 8 min, add the halved green beans to the tray
Return the tray to the oven for 7 min further
Wash your spinach, then pat it dry with kitchen paper
Once the green beans have had 7 min, remove the tray from the oven and add your walnuts
Return the tray to the oven for a final 3 min or until the walnuts are toasted and the chicken is cooked through (no pink meat!)
Tip: Watch them like a hawk so they don't burn!
Combine your pesto and balsamic vinegar in a large bowl with a generous drizzle of olive oil and a generous pinch of salt and pepper
Add the roasted green beans, halved cherry tomatoes and washed spinach with the drained green lentils and most of the toasted walnuts (save some for garnish!) and give everything a good mix up – this is your lentil & walnut pesto salad
Transfer the cooked chicken to a clean board and slice finely
Serve the lentil & walnut pesto salad with the sliced chicken on top
Garnish with the remaining toasted walnuts
Enjoy!
Nutritional information
Nutritional information only applies to ingredients supplied by Gousto.
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The cooking process and additional ingredients added at home (listed under “You'll also need”) will affect total values.
Allergens
Allergens highlighted by † (milk, nut, peanut, sesame, sulphites).
In addition to the recipe specific allergen information provided, due to production and packing methods Gousto boxes may also contain low levels of the following allergens: Cereals containing gluten; Crustaceans; Eggs; Fish; Peanuts; Soya; Milk; Nuts: almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts, cashews, pecan nuts, brazil nuts, pistachio nuts, macadamia nuts; Celery; Sesame; Sulphur dioxide and Sulphites; Lupin; Molluscs; Mustard.
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