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Grilled Maple Chicken on Quinoa Salad

delishar
Serves 4-6
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Ingredients
  

Grilled Maple Chicken

  • 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

Dressing

  • 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

Quinoa Salad

  • 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

Garnish

  • Lemon zest
  • Chopped cilantro

Blanched beans

  • 300 g baby french beans
  • Salt to taste

Instructions
 

Grilled Maple Chicken

  • Place all the ingredients except oil into a zip lock bag. Seal, and mix to combine.
  • Allow chicken to marinate for at least 1 to 24 hours in the chiller.
  • When ready to cook, heat a grill pan on medium high heat and grease with oil.
  • Allow excess marinade to drip off chicken then place on grill pan.
  • 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.

Dressing

  • Mix all ingredients into a bowl.
  • Whisk with fork to combine.

Quinoa

  • Rinse quinoa and drain.
  • Place quinoa into a pot over medium heat and toast until no longer wet and smells nutty. About 5-8 minutes.
  • Pour in water, season with salt, and bring to boil.
  • Reduce heat to low, cover and let the quinoa cook in a gentle simmer for 15 minutes.
  • After 15 minutes, turn off heat and allow to sit with lid on for another 5 minutes. Do not open or peek!
  • Then fluff with fork and transfer to a large mixing bowl to cool.
  • When quinoa is cooled, toss together the rest of the ingredients and prepared dressing.

Blanch baby beans

  • Bring a pot of water to boil, then season water generously with salt.
  • Blanch green beans for 2 minutes.
  • Then remove and transfer to a bowl of cold or ice water to stop cooking process.

Garnish

  • Plate, garnish with lemon zest and chopped cilantro.