How to make a Chicken Salad

In my opinion, everybody should know how to make a chicken salad, it's like a life skill. Well once you have done it you know how so here is my attempt to teach how to make a chicken salad. It is not difficult and quite rewarding so here we go.

Just follow the directions below and you can't go wrong.....

What you need

• 1 small Chicken or equvuilant in chicken pieces

• Selection of salad leaves

• Olive oil

• Salt and pepper

• 3 sprigs of thyme

• Parsley

• 1 Red onion

• 1 Cucumber

• 14 Cherry tomatoes

• Stoneless Black olives

• 1 Lemon

• Honey

What to do

Ok, first of we need to cook the chicken so find an oven tray and put the chicken in it. Pour on some olive oil and then rub in some salt and pepper.

If you've got time, shred the thyme and rub that in aswell.

Put the chicke into a preheated oven at 180 C for 50 - 60 minutes or untill it is cooked all the way through. Put to one side.

Wash the salad leaves andput them into a large bowl. Chop up the tomatoes and put them in along with the olives, red onion, cubed cucumber.

Chop up the chicken and lay on toip of the salad

For the dressing

Squeeze the lemon into a small bowl and add two seaspoons of honey, 2 tbspn of olive oil, and the copped parsley. You may need to add a small amount ofsugar to sweeten it.

Pour all over the chicken salad and bobs your uncle. You've just made one of the finest chicken salads ever! (Hopefully)

TIP: Boil some eggs and slice them up aswell to add another dimension to this dish

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