Grilled Chicken and Nectarine Salad - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 2/3 cup pecan halves
- 2 quarts salad greens (8 oz.), rinsed and crisped
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 1/4 cup walnut oil (or more vegetable oil; see
- 1/4 cup white wine vinegar
- 4 boned chicken breast halves with skin (2 lb. total), rinsed, patted dry, and fat trimmed
- Salt and pepper
- 2 firm-ripe nectarines (12 oz. total), rinsed, pitted, and thinly sliced
- 5 ounces fresh chèvre (goat cheese), crumbled
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 °. Spread pecans in a baking pan and bake until golden under skins, about 10 minutes. Let cool, then coarsely chop.
- Mound salad greens on four dinner plates. In a small bowl, stir vegetable oil, walnut oil, and vinegar to blend. Set aside.
- Sprinkle chicken with salt and pepper. Lay on a lightly oiled barbecue grill over a solid bed of medium-hot coals or medium-high heat on a gas grill (you can hold your hand at grill level only 3 to 4 seconds); close lid on gas grill. Cook chicken, turning occasionally, until meat is no longer pink in center of thickest part (cut to test), about 15 minutes total. Transfer chicken to a cutting board. Remove skin if desired.
- Slice chicken across the grain 1/2 inch thick; arrange over greens. Tuck nectarine around chicken. Scatter goat cheese and pecans over the top. Stir dressing; pour over salads. Add salt and pepper to taste.
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Chicken Breast.
Skinless chicken breast, often heralded for its lean nutritional profile, is undeniably a powerhouse when it comes to protein content. With an impressive 21 grams of protein packed into every 100 grams of the breast, it emerges as a preferred choice for those conscious about their protein intake. Delving deeper into the nutritional matrix of chicken, one can't overlook the copious amounts of vitamin B6 it houses. This particular vitamin plays an indispensable role in our body, especially when di...
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