Spinach and Chicken Salad with Cranberries

Name: Thermomix recipe: Spinach and Chicken Salad with Cranberries
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Ingredients: 2 chicken breast fillets, trimmed; 1 Litre water for steaming; 400 Grams baby spinach leaves; 150 Grams mushrooms, sliced; 3 spring onions, sliced; 150 Grams slivered almonds, toasted; Handfuls cranberries, dried; 1 clove garlic; 1 lemon, juice and zest, finely grated; 2 Teaspoons Ancient Roman Mustard or Dijon Mustard; 20 Grams white wine vinegar; 1 Tablespoon coconut sugar; 1 Pinch grated nutmeg; 1 Pinch smoked paprika; Pinches pink salt flakes; cracked black pepper to taste; 100 Grams Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO)

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Serves 4-6 Prep Time 10 minutes Cook Time 15 minutes Rated: Print

Steaming chicken in your Thermomix is seriously one of the easiest ways to have dinner on the table in summer that I know of.

Think any salad, sliced chicken breast and then a killer dressing...you're ready! You could pre-steam chicken breast, slice them and freeze them in small serving sized portions, make your salad while the chicken thaws in your lunch box...keeping everything cold. SO easy. So very Simple. (Summer is coming...think of the possibilities!)

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Need

Salad
2 chicken breast fillets, trimmed
1 Litre water for steaming
400 Grams baby spinach leaves
150 Grams mushrooms, sliced
3 spring onions, sliced
150 Grams slivered almonds, toasted
Handfuls cranberries, dried
Dressing
1 clove garlic
1 lemon, juice and zest, finely grated
2 Teaspoons Ancient Roman Mustard or Dijon Mustard Recipe
20 Grams white wine vinegar
1 Tablespoon coconut sugar
1 Pinch grated nutmeg
1 Pinch smoked paprika
Pinches pink salt flakes BUY
cracked black pepper to taste
100 Grams Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO) BUY

Do

1: Place chicken breast fillets into Varoma dish and water into Thermomix bowl. Set Varoma into position and steam chicken until done approximately 15 min/Varoma/speed 4. This will vary slightly depending on the size of the chicken fillets and how cold they are when you begin. Rest the chicken whilst you prepare the salad.
2: Place all the salad ingredients into a bowl reserving almonds for garnish.
3: Make the dressing by placing everything except the EVOO into the Thermomix bowl and blending 10 sec/speed 8. Add EVOO through hole in the lid and combine 5 sec/speed 5.
4: Slice the chicken breast and place on top of the salad, drizzle with dressing and finish with the almonds. Serve immediately.

Obviously this salad can easily be increased in volume to serve your crowd of choice. More chicken breast, more salad, probably there is enough dressing to go the distance but you could increase it if you needed to.

Tenina Holder is a wife, mother of five and grandmother of eight, who started cooking in the olden days before Thermomix was even a thing.

Tenina has become the premium go to source for all Thermomix expertise and of course fresh and easy recipes that work. Her cooking classes and foodie trips are sold out in literally hours, her cookbooks appear on the Australian best seller lists and her social reach is in the millions. Her Insider Club is the most fun you can have with a Thermomix and you really should join her! She believes chocolate, butter and salt are health foods. Her food positivity mantra is, eat everything, just not all at once!