How To Make Chicken Mesclun Salad
Plant-based chicken, juicy pears, and sharp-spicy gorgonzola cheese is tossed with bright greens to yield this tasteful mesclun salad!
Serves:
Ingredients
- 1½cupsMorningstar Farms® Meal Starters™ Chik’n Strips
- ½cupolive oil vinaigrette salad dressing
- 2tbspfresh basil,chopped
- 1tbspolive oil
- 1large sweet onion
- 1tspsugar
- 1red pear
- 6cupsmesclun,or torn mixed spring greens
- ¼cupwalnut pieces
- ¼cupgorgonzola cheese,crumbled
Instructions
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In small bowl stir together salad dressing and basil. Set aside.
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In large nonstick skillet heat 2 teaspoons of olive oil. Stir in onion and sugar. Cook over medium heat for 8 to 10 minutes or until golden brown, stirring frequently.
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Stir in pear slices, Chik’n Strips, and remaining oil. Cook and stir for 1 to 2 minutes or until heated through.
To Assemble:
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Arrange the mesclun on 4 serving plates. Top with pear mixture.
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Sprinkle with walnuts and cheese. Drizzle with salad dressing mixture.
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Serve immediately, and enjoy!
Nutrition
- Calories: 273.70kcal
- Fat: 21.86g
- Saturated Fat: 4.92g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 7.81g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 8.17g
- Carbohydrates: 18.56g
- Fiber: 3.12g
- Sugar: 12.04g
- Protein: 3.62g
- Cholesterol: 6.33mg
- Sodium: 121.00mg
- Calcium: 91.51mg
- Potassium: 311.09mg
- Iron: 0.91mg
- Vitamin A: 220.47µg
- Vitamin C: 12.18mg
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