Happy Monday! (and Happy Birthday to my darling husband Pete that I love more than anything!!) I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. We had too much fun on Friday night pre-celebrating Pete’s birthday and I very uncharacteristically had to spend some time recovering on Saturday. But then I bounced back to attend our God-daughters Sweet Sixteen which was the cutest party ever!
Then Saturday we went to Coco’s musical theater performance. If you sprinkle in some pizza and a bunch of football games (GO SEAHAWKS!!!!) that is our weekend in a nutshell. Which is also to say that we sort of fell off the wagon with the whole healthy January thing. So today, we are getting back in the saddle with this Arugula, Chicken, Grapefruit and Avocado Salad with Cilantro Vinaigrette.
It’s so fresh and vibrant and flavorful as well as so healthy and delicious. I would eat this for lunch any day or paired with a nice veggie soup for dinner, it would make a great light meal. Enjoy!
- 6 cups baby arugula
- 1 grapefruit, skin cut off and sliced across into thin rounds
- 2 cups shredded cooked chicken breast
- 1 large avocado, thinly sliced
- Cilantro Vinaigrette
- 1 bunch cilantro, leaves and stems, roughly chopped
- 2 cloves garlic
- ½ jalapeno pepper, chopped
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 3 tablespoons red wine vinegar
- kosher salt
- Arrange the Arugula, grapefruit rounds, shredded chicken and avocado on a platter and then make the cilantro vinaigrette.
- In the jar of a blender, combine the cilantro, garlic, jalapeno, olive oil and red wine vinegar and puree until smooth. Season to taste with kosher salt and drizzle over the salad.
- Serve the salad immediately.
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Ah, happy birthday to your husband Pete. Love the citrus in this salad! So great for brightening up salads.
This is one gorgeous salad! I can’t wait to dig into this salad soon!
Now that’s a nice looking winter salad!
Beautiful colorful salad Heather!
Happy birthday, Pete! and GO HAWKS! I feel like my entire January is going to be M-F salads and weekend gluttony. >.<
I could eat this entire salad myself!
Now THIS is my kind of salad! LOVE the grapefruit!
Heather, I have been doing research for gluten, dairy, and egg recipes that can aid in hormone balancing naturally. I would like permission to use a couple of your recipes with the pictures. It would include a link to your website where they can view all the many recipes. In fact, if possible I would like to know which of your recipes are considered to be your favorites.