Home cooking: Chicken and apple chopped salad

By Christine Gilbert, April 8, 2015

Most salads for adults contain what are often unfamiliar, weird-tasting and generally alien-looking foods to children. Have you seen a halved artichoke heart? Who thought it’d be a good idea to eat that? What about beets? Any China-savvy child would never put anything remotely resembling congealed blood on their plate. Thus, parents have to get creative – both in their ingredients and approach – if they want kids to be open to the idea of leafy greens with a meal.

Stephanie Gallagher, a food blogger for kids’ recipes on About.com, has a few tips to entice children into salad eating: start simple, let go of nutritional perfectionism, have ingredients kids like and let them make their own salad. She even suggests setting up a salad bar in the kitchen to make the experience more interactive and fun.

To begin your own home salad bar, try out the recipe below, provided by Scott Minoie of Element Fresh. Though originally created for children, he says the men in the EF kitchen like it, too. Baby steps though, baby steps.

Ingredients:

75g butterhead or iceberg lettuce

1 chicken breast

Half a green apple

Handful of raisins

Crispy bacon

Cheddar cheese

Honey

Classic yellow mustard

Olive oil

Preparation:

1) Season chicken breast with salt and pepper, then cook it the way you like it – grilled, oven-baked or pan-fried.

2) Cut the apple, cheese and chicken into small chunks.

3) Cook the bacon then chop it.

4) Mix everything together and sprinkle the raisins on top.

5) Make the salad dressing with half honey and half mustard and finish with a drizzle of olive oil.

// This recipe is courtesy of Chef Scott Minoie from Element Fresh.

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