Name: Greek Style Chicken Salad with Thyme Vinaigrette
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 20 min
Cuisine: Mediterranean
Ingredients: 0.8 lbs Chicken, 2 bone-less chicken thighs; 1 Cucumber, cut lengthwise into thin ribbons; 1/2 Cup Olives, pitted halved and/or sliced; 1 Mango, sliced into thin ribbons; 1 tbsp Olive Oil, for cooking chicken; 1/2 Cup Feta Cheese, crumbled; 2 Tomatoes, sliced; 1 tbsp Thyme, fresh or 1 tsp dried thyme, crushed; 1/2 tsp Sugar; 1.5 tbsp White Wine Vinegar; 3 tbsp Olive Oil; Salt and Black Pepper, to taste

Sharing with you Greek-inspired chicken salad with feta, olives, tomatoes, ripe-sweet mangoes with thyme vinaigrette. Spring-Summer time is salad time in my family. We love eating just salad for lunch. As I always say, if salads are not appealing they quickly disappear from our menu. So, I have to find ways to stay creative with salads to continue with healthy lunches.

Take for instance this Greek inspired chicken feta salad. It has lots of fresh elements and very less cheese to call it filling yet healthy summer lunch salad. And good news - you can make this salad ahead of time.

Just cook chicken at night; make vinaigrette, chop veggies in the morning and you are good to go. Greek Chicken Salad

This is also one of my favorite pack-for-lunch salads. If you don’t like the idea of cooking chicken, replace it with fresh tofu or use leftover rotisserie chicken.

Even though, start ingredients in this salad are – chicken and olives, I must tell you that mango is worth a mention. Fruit of season, fresh ripe sliced mangoes give this salad much needed sweetness and take this salad to whole new level. Greek Chicken Salad

Feta and olives delivers a perfect salty/briny bite with tangy thyme vinaigrette.

I especially love small dots of feta over mango, olives and tomatoes. Don’t they look like little jewels scattered around in a plate which you can spoon into your mouth anytime ;). Gorgeous eye-candy salad!!

Love this salad! In-fact looking at pictures today is inspiring me to make it again this week. Greek Chicken Salad

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