Greek chicken salad: 8 hearty recipes

How to make Greek chicken salad - 16 varieties

Greek chicken salad is light and low in calories. If you add chicken to it, it will become a complete alternative to dinner. However, the dietary properties are preserved, since chicken fillet is perfectly absorbed by the body. Various dressings will diversify the flavor range of your favorite dish.
Classic Greek salad with baked chicken
Greek salad with boiled chicken
Greek salad with croutons
Greek salad with honey chicken
Greek salad with pine nuts
Greek salad with marinated chicken
Greek salad with American chicken
Greek salad with chicken and mushrooms
Greek salad with peppers
Greek salad with grilled chicken
Greek salad with yogurt
Greek salad with avocado
Dietary Greek salad with boiled chicken and yogurt
Greek salad with olives and black olives
Hummus with avocado for Greek salad

How to prepare a dish correctly?

The main feature of the “Greek” chicken salad is coarsely chopped vegetables, olive oil and feta cheese. Sometimes shrimp or other ingredients are added to the dish instead of meat. This doesn’t make the taste any worse; it just takes on a new flavor. But this recipe can no longer be called classic.

Greek salad with chicken is a delicious and beautiful holiday dish that is incredibly easy to prepare. Despite the fact that a minimal set of products is used for its preparation, the result pleases with its amazing taste. The successful combination of ingredients is what made the ordinary village Greek salad so popular. By the way, the classic chicken recipe does not use tomatoes, cucumbers, shallots, olives and feta, as well as olive oil. And yet, our compatriots love the chicken option the most, since it is more satisfying and tasty.

The special value of the “Greek” salad (with chicken) is that it contains everything that a person needs: carbohydrates, fats and proteins. A serving of salad will provide you with energy and vitamins. Eating a dish can be equated to a full meal. The optimal set of products saturates the body, but at the same time does not give anything unnecessary. The products included in the salad delicately cleanse the intestines, helping to unload the body.

Classic Greek salad with baked chicken

The abundance of greens and vegetables in the salad makes it a dietary dish that can replace dinner. Chicken increases the satiety of the dish, but does not affect the figure.

Ingredients:

Chicken fillet – 500 g
Cheese or feta – 100 g
Cucumbers – 3 pcs.
Tomatoes – 3 pcs.
Olives – 10-15 pcs.
Garlic – 2-3 cloves
Lemon juice – 2 tbsp.
Olive oil – 4 tbsp.
Greenery
Salt, black pepper

Preparation:

Process the chicken fillet: rinse in cold water, remove the veins, cut into cubes.

Mix olive oil, lemon juice, chopped garlic and spices.

Marinate the meat: pour the dressing evenly, cover with film and leave in the refrigerator for 5-6 hours. Stir occasionally to thoroughly coat the chicken.

Rinse the pieces under cold water, dry and bake in a slow cooker or oven. Leave the meat to cool.

Chop the cheese and mix with the chicken. If the cheese is over-salted, then soak it in milk or mineral water for 10 minutes.

Remove stems and stems from tomatoes and cucumbers. Cut the cucumbers into half rings and the tomatoes into slices.

Olives are cut into halves or rings.

Mix all ingredients. Season the salad with olive oil.

The peculiarity of Greek salad is its coarsely chopped ingredients. This will allow you to feel each product both separately and in combination with the others.

Tomatoes

It is impossible to imagine a ready-made Greek salad without tomatoes. But greenhouse tomatoes from the supermarket are absolutely not suitable for its preparation. A truly delicious dish can only be obtained with aromatic sweet tomatoes grown in village beds. The selection of ingredients for the “Greek” chicken salad has no strict restrictions.

Depending on your preference, you can use pink, orange or red tomatoes. Cherry tomatoes look no less interesting in the dish.

Greek salad with boiled chicken

Garlic sauce complements boiled chicken fillet well and makes the salad unusually light.

Ingredients:

Chicken fillet – 400 g
Cucumber – 2 pcs.
Lettuce leaves – 150 g
Onions – 1 pc.
Tomato – 2 pcs.
Lemon juice – 2 tbsp.
Garlic – 1 clove
Olive oil – 4 tbsp.
Greenery

Preparation:

Boil the chicken fillet and cool. Cut into large pieces.

Cut cucumbers, tomatoes and onions into slices.

Cut or tear the lettuce leaves with your hands.

Mix lemon juice with chopped garlic.

Dress the salad.

Traditionally, the dressing is made with lemon juice, but sometimes it is replaced with balsamic vinegar. In Greece, this dressing is served to guests of honor or at celebrations.

Recipe 5: Greek salad with fetax and chicken (with photo)

Chicken leg 400 g
Purple onion 0.5 pcs.
Pitted olives 70 g
Extra virgin olive oil 3 tbsp. l.
Cucumbers 2 pcs.
Sweet pepper 0.5 pcs.
Tomatoes 2 pcs.
Herbes de Provence 1 pinch
Green salad 150 g
Salt 1 g
White crackers 40 g
Fetax cheese 100 g

Wash and dry all vegetables. Peel the onion (0.5 onions) and cut into half rings. Pepper (0.5 pepper), remove seeds and cut into pieces. Cut tomatoes (2 pieces) into slices, and cucumbers (2 pieces) into large pieces.

Wash 150 g of lettuce, dry it, tear it with your hands and place it on a dish.

Fetaksa (100 g) cut into cubes; it can be easily replaced with cheese.

Place peppers and cucumbers on the salad. Season the vegetables with salt.

Place tomatoes and onions on top.

First boil the leg (400 g), cool, remove the bones and cut into pieces.

Arrange pieces of chicken and olives (70 g) between the vegetables.

Place Fetaxa and croutons (40 g) on top. Season the salad with Provençal herbs (1 pinch). Drizzle with olive oil (3 tbsp). Greek salad with chicken and croutons is ready.

Greek salad with croutons

Crispy croutons will add piquancy to the salad. The recipe is made more difficult by preparing crackers, since store-bought ones can spoil the taste.

Ingredients:

Chicken fillet – 600 g
Salad – 1 bunch
Hard cheese – 150 g
Tomatoes – 250 g
Garlic – 2-3 cloves
Vegetable oil – 3 tbsp.
Lemon juice – 2 tbsp.
White bread – 400 g
Mustard – 1 tsp.
Pepper, salt

Preparation:

Soak lettuce leaves in cold water for 30 minutes. Dry

Cut the bread into cubes and dry in the oven.

Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan and add finely chopped garlic. Add chicken fillet pieces and fry with spices.

Grate the cheese on a fine grater and chop the leaves.

Add chopped tomatoes.

Stir in cooled chicken and cheese.

Season with oil and mustard, sprinkle with crackers on top.

You don’t have to mix the salad, but lay it in layers: lettuce leaves, chicken, tomatoes, eggs, cheese and croutons.

Greek salad with pine nuts

Chicken and pine nuts do not allow you to call the salad simple. They add richness and nutrition to a familiar dish.

Ingredients:

Vinegar 9% - 2-3 tbsp.
Sweet pepper – 1 pc.
Onion greens, dill 80 g each
Tomatoes – 2 pcs.
Cucumbers – 2 pcs.
Olives – 50 g
Chicken fillet – 600 g
Cheese – 200 g
Olive oil – 60 g
Pine nuts – 50 g

Preparation:

Boil chicken fillet

Finely chop the onion

Grate the cheese

Grind pine nuts.

Place in layers: onion, chicken, cheese, nuts.

Beat the oil with vinegar in a blender. Drizzle over the ingredients.

Cut the vegetables into slices and place in a salad bowl.

Add shredded lettuce and cut olives.

Season the salad and sprinkle with herbs. Stir if desired.

Olive oil

Olive oil is something without which it is impossible to imagine any light salad. This is what famous chefs prefer. Olive oil is simply necessary to decorate the “Greek” chicken salad. It is the connecting link that unites all components together.

Any dish with olive oil takes on a completely different sound. It gives the salad a special aroma.

Greek salad with marinated chicken

The marinade gives the meat a special taste that real gourmets will appreciate. Light notes of citrus and garlic are the perfect complement to roast chicken.

Ingredients:

Chicken – 600 g
Cucumber – 1 pc.
Red onion – 1 pc.
Tomato – 1 pc.
Feta cheese – 200 g
Lemon – 1 pc.
Dried oregano – 1 tsp.
Garlic - -2 cloves
Olive oil – 6 tbsp.
Wine vinegar – 2 tbsp.
Peppercorns
Salt

Preparation:

Mix lemon juice with 3 tbsp. olive oil, oregano, pepper and salt.

Coat the chicken fillet with marinade, cover with cling film and refrigerate for 30-60 minutes.

Fry the chicken for a minute on each side.

Cut the cooled chicken into cubes.

Wash the salad and cut into strips.

Cut the tomatoes into slices, cucumbers into cubes, olives into half.

Grind the cheese with your hands until you get equal pieces.

Grind the garlic with a press and mix with lemon juice, oil and vinegar. Mix everything well and add spices.

Mix all ingredients except chicken. Season the salad and place chicken fillet on top.

Mustard, curry, and ground red pepper in the marinade will add spicy notes.

Recipe 6, step by step: Greek salad with white meat chicken

white chicken meat - 400 gr
cucumber - 1 piece
tomatoes - 2 pcs.
red onion - 1 pc.
lettuce leaves - 1 bunch
Feta cheese – 150 gr
olive oil – 50 ml
salt, black pepper
oregano - 1 tbsp.
black olives without pits - 150 g
lemon juice - 2 tbsp.
liquid honey - 1 tsp.

Boil the chicken until done. Cool. If you don't like white meat, take the brisket. She's more tender. Cut the finished chicken into slices.

Wash and dry the tomatoes. Cut into large pieces, or slices, it will be even more beautiful.

Do the same with the cucumber. Wash and dry. Then cut into large circles, you can cut the cucumber into crescents.

Take red onion. Clean it. Then cut it into rings. You can also use half rings.

Rinse the lettuce leaves in running water. Dry with a towel (paper). It is better not to crumble the lettuce leaves, but to tear them into pieces.

Prepare the dressing: mix olive oil with lemon juice. Add honey, salt, oregano and pepper. Whisk thoroughly. Our sauce is ready.

Gently mix all ingredients except cheese and olives in a salad bowl. Then add pieces of cheese and whole olives. Pour dressing over salad. Everything is ready, you can serve.

Greek salad with American chicken

Americans value time; they have simplified almost all recipes for famous dishes. Greek salad was no exception.

Ingredients:

Romaine lettuce – 2-3 pumpkins
Tomato – 350 g
Cucumber – 100 g
Red onion – 0.5 pcs.
Pitted olives – 0.5 tbsp.
Feta cheese – 200 g
Chicken breast – 800 g
Lemon – 2 pcs.
Olive oil – 8 tbsp.
Oregano – 2 tsp.
Garlic – 2 cloves
Red wine vinegar – 2 tbsp.
Black peppercorns
Salt

Preparation:

Mix the juice of 1 lemon with olive oil. Stir in oregano (1 tsp), freshly ground pepper (10 peas) and salt. Rub the fillet with spices and then dip into the marinade. Cover with film and leave for 0.5-4 hours.

Grill the breast for a few minutes on each side. Leave to cool and then cut into thin slices.

Remove the white bottoms from the lettuce and cut the leaves in half. Cut the rod into strips.

Cut the cucumber into half rings, tomatoes into equal slices.

Break the cheese with your hands into 2x2 cm pieces.

Crush the garlic with a knife, pour in lemon juice, vinegar and olive oil. Add oregano and ground pepper. Close the container and shake vigorously. There is no need to refrigerate the filling.

Place vegetables and herbs on a plate, add fried chicken and pour dressing over it.

According to the rules, salad is prepared from chilled vegetables. If this is not possible, then the finished portions are placed in the refrigerator for 0.5 hours. To maintain juiciness, you can sprinkle with water.

Greek salad – classic recipe with chicken

Here it is, a traditional recipe, in which, in addition to ordinary, familiar products, there is fillet marinated in a special sauce. This variation in an unimaginable way makes the dish truly unique, exquisite and amazingly tasty.

You will need:

100 gr. lettuce leaves;
1 cucumber;
3 tomatoes;
300 gr. chicken meat;
1 lemon;
1 tsp. oregano;
1/2 tsp. salt;
10 peppercorns;
2 cloves of garlic;
2 tbsp. l. wine vinegar;
6 tbsp. l. olive oils

Cooking steps:

Beat the juice of half a lemon with half the amount of olive oil specified in the recipe, then add oregano, salt and pepper to this mixture.
Coat the chicken fillet generously with this mixture, then cover with film and leave in the refrigerator for at least half an hour.
Then fry the meat for literally four minutes on each side in a frying pan without adding oil.
Cut the finished and cooled fillet into pieces.
Wash the lettuce leaves, dry them, and tear them with your hands.
Rinse tomatoes and cucumbers and cut into pieces.
Peel the garlic, crush the cloves with a press and place in a container suitable for preparing the sauce.
Add lemon juice, vinegar and remaining oil to the garlic. Whisk all ingredients. All that remains is to add spices and a little salt. Then beat again.
Combine all products, pour over dressing and mix.

Thanks to chicken fillet, a salad with Greek yogurt can not whet your appetite, but completely satisfy your hunger. This dish is perfect for a light dinner, and on the holiday table it will be one of the brightest and most memorable treats. The calorie content of Greek salad with oil allows you to eat a snack even for those who are on a diet.

Greek salad with chicken and mushrooms

Mushrooms are an additional source of protein. The salad becomes more caloric, but acquires a special personality.

Ingredients:

Chicken fillet – 600 g
Salad – 1 bunch
Feta cheese – 150 g
Tomatoes – 250 g
Garlic – 2-3 cloves
Chicken egg – 2 pcs.
Vegetable oil – 3 tbsp.
Lemon juice – 2 tbsp.
Champignons – 300 g
Salt pepper

Preparation:

Marinate the chicken in a sauce of garlic, vegetable oil and lemon juice. Let soak for 30-60 minutes and fry over low heat.

Mushrooms are cut into slices and fried in vegetable oil.

Cut vegetables and cheese into equal pieces and season with olive oil. Place fried champignons and chicken on top.

Greek salad with chicken and croutons, with lime dressing

A very tasty, light appetizer with pan-fried chicken marinated in soy sauce. Excellent garlic croutons that add flavor and aroma. And also the lime juice dressing gives our dish an amazing taste.

We will need:

Green salad – 100-120 gr.
A bunch of green onions – 30 gr.
Cilantro - bunch
Garlic clove
Cherry tomatoes - 10 pcs.
Lime – 1 pc.
Bread for toasting - 2 pcs.
Chicken fillet – 180 gr.
Soy sauce – 2 tbsp.
Chili pepper flakes
Provencal herbs
Olive oil
Salt and pepper
Sugar - 1 tbsp. l for refueling
Sugar - 1 teaspoon. for marinade

Preparation:

Rinse the chicken fillet well, pat dry with paper towels and marinate in two tablespoons of soy sauce, ¼ teaspoon of chili pepper flakes, 1 teaspoon of sugar. Mix well and leave until the meat is saturated with seasonings.

Cut the pieces of white bread into small cubes and place them in a well-heated dry frying pan. Fry for a few minutes until crispy

Place the prepared croutons on a plate, add a little salt, grate a little garlic on top, sprinkle with olive oil, and mix. While the bread is still hot, it will absorb the aroma of garlic and give the finished dish a unique taste and aroma.

Heat the frying pan, pour a little vegetable oil, and lay out our already marinated breast. White meat cooks very quickly, so cook for about five minutes on each side. Remove the meat and place it on a paper towel to remove excess oil.

Refueling:

Let's take a lime, roll it lightly on the table to better squeeze out the juice, we will need half a citrus. Add a teaspoon of salt, a tablespoon of sugar, 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil, Italian herbs, mix everything well. Our gas station is ready

Preparation:

Cut the cooled meat into thin strips

Cherry tomatoes in half, large onion to form strips, coarsely chop a bunch of cilantro

Tear the lettuce leaves with your hands and place everything on a plate.

Place the chicken in there

Pour our dressing on top and stir

Place the salad on a flat plate and sprinkle with croutons.

Bon appetit!!!

Greek salad with peppers

This uniquely light dish can be consumed while on a diet. Red and yellow peppers will give it some brightness.

Ingredients:

Chicken fillet – 400 g
Feta cheese - 200 g
Olives – 100 g
Red onion – 1 pc.
Yellow and red peppers – 1 pc.
Meaty tomato – 2 pcs.
Cucumber – 1 pc.
Chinese cabbage (lettuce) – 200 g
Lemon – 0.5 pcs.
Oregano – 2 tbsp.
Olive oil – 50 g
Honey – 1 tsp.

Preparation:

Boil the chicken fillet, cool and cut into cubes.

Cut the olives into slices, tomatoes into slices, cucumbers and onions into half rings, peppers into strips.

Cut the cheese into 2x2 cm cubes.

Shred the Beijing cabbage.

Prepare the dressing: mix olive oil, lemon juice, oregano and honey.

Combine ingredients in a large bowl and season. Top with herbs and croutons.

The dressed salad should not be stirred so as not to lose its airiness.

Greek salad with mushrooms gypsy style - video recipe

Let's complicate the recipe and add even more flavor. Some zest in the form of mushrooms. All other ingredients are still in place, these are tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, olives, Chinese cabbage, feta cheese. Everything is just as delicious and even a little tastier. I was just talking about how Greek salad varies in different geographic areas and even families. This is a good example of this.

A detailed video recipe will help you prepare a very tasty and original Greek salad.

Greek salad with grilled chicken

Grilled chicken has high taste. If you combine it with juicy vegetables and soft cheese, you will get an unforgettable dish.

Ingredients:

Green salad – 350 g
Tomatoes – 500 g
Cucumbers – 200 g
Grilled chicken breast – 180 g
Olives – 2 tbsp.
Feta cheese – 150 g
Red onion – 250 g
Olive oil – 1 tbsp.
Lemon juice – 1 tsp.

Preparation:

Place lettuce leaves and chopped vegetables on a plate. Mix everything carefully.

Mix olive oil, lemon juice and seasonings.

Place grilled chicken pieces on the mixture and pour over the prepared dressing.

Recipe 7: Chicken salad prepared with feta cheese

1 chicken fillet
1 onion + lemon juice
1 cucumber
3 tomatoes
1 bell pepper
100 g sheep cheese
handful of olives
olive oil for dressing
salt
pepper

Wash the chicken fillet, cut off all the membranes and cut into cubes.

Fry the fillet in vegetable oil until golden brown. Salt and pepper to taste.

Peel the onion, cut into half rings, sprinkle with lemon juice.

Cut the tomatoes into cubes.

Cut the cucumber into small pieces.

We clean the bell pepper and cut it into cubes.

We also cut the cheese.

Olives can be added whole, halved, or cut into rings.

Mix all ingredients, season with olive oil. Bon appetit!

Greek salad with yogurt

Yogurt is widely used for dressing salads, and Greek yogurt is no exception.

Ingredients:

Chicken breast – 4 pcs.
Feta cheese – 300 g
Cucumbers 2 pcs.
Green salad – 200 g
Olives – 0.5 tbsp.
Yogurt – ¾ tbsp.
Dried oregano – 1 tbsp.
Garlic – 3 cloves
Parsley

Preparation:

Crumble the cheese and cut the cucumbers into strips. Fry the chicken and chop it. Cut the olives into rings. Mix everything.

Mix yogurt, oregano, parsley and chopped garlic.

Season the chicken-vegetable mixture and refrigerate for 30 minutes.

Greek salad with avocado

The sweet taste of avocado goes well with chicken. The combination is not contrasting - the products complement each other.

Ingredients:

Green salad – 350 g
Cherry tomatoes – 400 g
Feta cheese – 120 g
Cucumbers – 1 pc.
Olives – 2 tbsp.
Avocado – 250 g
Red onion – 250 g
Lemon juice – 1 tsp.
Ground black pepper – 1 tbsp.

Preparation:

Grill chicken fillet.

Cut tomatoes and olives in half, chop cucumbers and onions.

Cut the cheese into cubes or mash it with your hands.

Place vegetables, cheese and meat on lettuce leaves.

Season with lemon juice and seasonings.

Dietary Greek salad with boiled chicken and yogurt

Boiled chicken and low-fat yogurt can be allowed even in the afternoon on a strict diet.

Ingredients:

Green salad – 250 g
Parsley – 20 g
Chicken breast – 350 g
Tomato, cucumber – 2 pcs.
Onion – 150 g
Feta cheese – 200 g

Preparation:

Boil the chicken breast and cut into cubes.

Grind vegetables and cheese. The pieces must be the same.

For the dressing, mix yogurt with parsley, garlic and oregano. Can be ground in a blender.

Season the salad and leave to cool under cling film in the refrigerator.

Greek salad with olives and black olives

The combination of olives and black olives will add a unique taste and diversify the color scheme.

Ingredients:

Lettuce – 1 bunch
Green onions – 1 bunch
Chicken – 700 g
Olives - ¼ tbsp.
Olives - ¼ tbsp.
Dill – 0.5 bunch
Lemon juice – ¼ tbsp.
Salt pepper

Preparation:

Chop the boiled chicken, lettuce, onion and olives.

Chop the greens.

Prepare a dressing from lemon juice, oil and salt.

Mix all ingredients and season.