Usually Caesar salads can be quite high in calories, but here I have created a delicious low calorie Chicken Caesar salad which uses your Healthy vegetables to keep the calories down. It is completely homemade (even the dressing), so is fresh and tastes amazing.
This recipe is Slimming Eats and Weight Watchers friendly
Chicken Caesar Salad
Ingredients
- 2 small chicken breasts, sliced into smaller fillets
- black pepper
- 120g (4oz) slices of whole wheat bread (cut into squares)
- 1 romaine lettuce head, roughly chopped
- 60g (2oz) of parmesan, shavings
- Olive oil spray
For the Caesar Dressing
- ⅓ cup of fat free natural yoghurt
- 2 anchovies, drained (I used ones in oil)
- 1 teaspoon of olive oil
- tablespoon of juice from 1 fresh lemon
- ¼ teaspoon of black pepper
- splash of Worcestershire sauce
- 2 cloves of garlic, crushed
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180c or 350f
- Spray a grill pan over a medium high heat with some olive oil spray.
- Add you chicken, season with black pepper and grill, until golden on each side.
- Set aside to cool slightly.
- Spray a baking tray with olive oil spray, add your bread, spray over the top and bake in the oven until nice and golden.
- Add all the ingredients for the dressing to a mini food processor and blend until smooth.
- Add your chicken pieces, romaine lettuce and croutons to a bowl, add the dressing and toss well.
- Divide amongst two plates and top with Parmesan shavings.
- Enjoy!!
Notes
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- Calories - scroll down to nutritional info box
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Below is the approx. nutritional information:
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Approx. NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION |
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per serving |
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Calories |
526 |
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Fat |
14.4g |
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Saturated Fat |
5.1g |
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Total Carbohydrate |
35.5g |
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Dietary Fibre |
5.8g |
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Sugars |
4.5g |
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Protein |
67.1g |
Shirl Sawyer says
Made this for my Daughter and I and she said it was her best lunch ever!
Kirsty says
this is lush, thank you