Seriously Delicious Salad

This salad is delicious! With feta, roasted sunflower seeds, and a burst of sweeetness, it is possibly the perfect salad. Mmm...

Seriously Delicious Salad

1-2 Chicken Breasts

Variety of Greens (We used from our CSA:

     Beet Greens

     Mesculun Mix

     Green Salad Bowl Leaf Lettuce

1 Garlic Scape

Radish (We used a milder version, the French Breakfast Radish)

1/4-1/2 cup of unsweetened dried blueberries (I can find these at Trader Joe's in the northwest, but have trouble locating them at the Trader Joe's in the midwest)

1/4 cup Raw Sunflower Seeds

1/8 cup olive oil

1/8 cup red wine vinegar

Quarter of an orange

Sea Salt

Pepper

On the stove, saute your chicken breast with either butter or cold pressed coconut oil. Cooking with olive oil makes your oil rancid. The smoking point is not high enough to cook with olive oil.

Remove the chicken and using the same pan, throw in the raw sunflower seeds. Season with salt and let cook until they turn a light brown color. If you use another type of seed, they may pop - like pumpkin seeds.

While sunflower seeds are cooking (stir occasionally) rinse your salad greens. Just use as much as you would like to eat in your salad. I thought I used enough for lunch and dinner, but we devoured the entire salad for lunch... Dry your greens, then salt them lightly and mix.

Wash and slice radish into thin slices. You should have nice thing, round slices. So pretty!

Chop your garlic scape into 1/4" length pieces. Take a bit - mmm, nice soft garlic flavor. Very light.

Check on sunflower seeds, if they are lightly roasted, remove from the stove. We over roasted ours, but they were still delicious.

Put unsweetened, dried blueberries on the salad.

Throw now cooled chicken on salad. And make dressing on the side. Pour olive oil and red wine vinegar into a pourable cup or bowl with  spoon. We like to use our glass measuring cup. Mix together. Squeeze the juice of the orange into the cup and season with salt and pepper. Mix again. Be careful if using a thinner glass cup...yes, I have broken a glass doing this!

Throw sunflower seeds onto the salad. Leave unmixed. So pretty for the table!

Devour, seriously!