Grilled Maple Chicken on Quinoa Salad
Serves 4-6
- Prep time
- --
- Cook time
- Not listed
- Yield
- 4 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 3 chicken breast (split into half width/thickness wise)
- 4 tbsp maple syrup
- 2 tbsp coconut amino (or soy sauce if not going paleo)
- 2 tsp grated ginger
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 2 cloves garlic (grated)
- Black pepper to taste
- Oil for cooking
- 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 2 tbsp applecider vinegar
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 1/2 tsp dried oregano
- Salt and black pepper to taste
- 1 cup uncooked quinoa
- 1 1/2 cup 360ml water
- Pinch of salt
- 1 Japanese cucumber (seeded and diced)
- 1/2 red pepper (diced)
- 1/2 yellow pepper (diced)
- 1/3 cup chopped fresh basil
- 2 tbsp chopped spring onions / scallions
- Lemon zest
- Chopped cilantro
- 300 g baby french beans
- Salt to taste
Instructions
- 1
Grilled Maple Chicken
- 2
Place all the ingredients except oil into a zip lock bag. Seal, and mix to combine.
- 3
Allow chicken to marinate for at least 1 to 24 hours in the chiller.
- 4
When ready to cook, heat a grill pan on medium high heat and grease with oil.
- 5
Allow excess marinade to drip off chicken then place on grill pan.
- 6
Lower heat to medium, and allow to grill for about 2 minutes each side. Remove chicken from pan, and allow it to rest loosely tented with tin foil to keep warm for about 5-10 minutes.
- 7
Dressing
- 8
Mix all ingredients into a bowl.
- 9
Whisk with fork to combine.
- 10
Quinoa
- 11
Rinse quinoa and drain.
- 12
Place quinoa into a pot over medium heat and toast until no longer wet and smells nutty. About 5-8 minutes.
- 13
Pour in water, season with salt, and bring to boil.
- 14
Reduce heat to low, cover and let the quinoa cook in a gentle simmer for 15 minutes.
- 15
After 15 minutes, turn off heat and allow to sit with lid on for another 5 minutes. Do not open or peek!
- 16
Then fluff with fork and transfer to a large mixing bowl to cool.
- 17
When quinoa is cooled, toss together the rest of the ingredients and prepared dressing.
- 18
Blanch baby beans
- 19
Bring a pot of water to boil, then season water generously with salt.
- 20
Blanch green beans for 2 minutes.
- 21
Then remove and transfer to a bowl of cold or ice water to stop cooking process.
- 22
Garnish
- 23
Plate, garnish with lemon zest and chopped cilantro.