Strawberry Chicken Salad with Honey Dijon Dressing

You’re going to love this healthy strawberry chicken salad, topped with a homemade honey dijon dressing. It’s the ultimate summer salad recipe that takes moments to prepare (especially when you have pre-cooked chicken). Make it for your meal prep lunches this week.

This healthy summer salad recipe has been sponsored by the Dairy Processors Association of Canada.

Strawberry Chicken Salad

I often have salads or stir-fries for lunch. They’re a great way to load your veggies in at lunch, plus they’re easy.

Not only does it provide you an opportunity to eat a balanced meal with a high protein option, but it also provides you with nutrients that you don’t think about (I’ll get more into that below).

Ingredients Needed

Strawberry Chicken Salad Ingredients

• green lettuce (romaine lettuce will also work)
• cooked grilled chicken (either meal prep your chicken or buy an oven-roasted chicken from the deli)
• sliced fresh strawberries
• red onion
• feta cheese (I used light feta cheese)
• pecans (if you don’t like pecans, you can use almonds)

Honey Dijon Dressing Ingredients

• dijon mustard
• 0% plain greek yogurt
• honey
• apple cider vinegar
• extra virgin olive oil
• poppyseeds
• sea salt
• black pepper

All of these ingredients supply a variety of micronutrients (vitamins and minerals) to help support your health.

Since the Dairy Processors Association of Canada is sponsoring this post (and inspired me to add more dairy to this dish), I wanted to point out a couple of health benefits of the dairy products used:

Feta

Feta makes it betta. It’s one of my favorite cheeses and a go-to for my salads. Not only does it make a ton of salty flavor that is a source of fat and protein, but it also provides your body with calcium and magnesium.

Sprinkle some feta cheese in your next salad recipe.

Greek Yogurt

In addition to being a great source of protein, Greek Yogurt is also a fantastic dairy source that supplies Canadians with the vitamins and minerals that many of us do not get enough of like magnesium, calcium, vitamin A, and vitamin D.

Meal Prep Measurements (Single Servings of Strawberry Chicken Salad)

If you would rather prep the recipe for your lunches, here are the individual ingredients.

• 1 cup ripped lettuce (you can use whatever greens you want, like fresh baby spinach)
• 1 cup sliced grilled chicken
• 1/2 cup strawberries, sliced
• 1/4 cup sliced red onion
• 2 tablespoons feta cheese
• 1 tablespoons pecan

Whip up the salad dressing in a mason jar and store it (this saves on prep time).

Since everything else will be ready to go, you can assemble the salad for each day in under a minute and then drizzle a tablespoon or two of the salad dressing over top (or in a separate container if you are taking it to work with you.

Marinating the Chicken

To add more flavor to this dish, I recommend marinating your chicken beforehand.

I rubbed the chicken breasts for my meal prep with salt, pepper, and garlic powder. Then I drizzled balsamic vinegar over them and let them sit for 20 minutes before grilling.

It will be cooked when the internal temperature is 165F.

Another option is to try these Mexican Grilled Chicken.

Nutrition Information

Caloric and Macro Information

The nutritional information in the recipe will be off as it takes the whole recipe into consideration (even the extra salad dressing).

When I calculated the macros in MyFitnessPal here is the information I got for the nutrition facts:

Without Salad Dressing:

• Calories: 331
• Carbs: 10.8g
• Protein: 41g
• Fat: 13.8g
• Fiber: 2.9g
• Sugar: 6g

Salad Dressing on its own (1/6th the recipe, roughly 2 tablespoons):

• Calories: 114
• Carbs: 9.4g
• Protein: 1.1g
• Fat: 7.1g
• Sugar: 8.9g

How to Make Strawberry Chicken Salad

Whether you decide to whip it together in a large bowl to serve a crowd or divide the servings up into four for your weekly meal prep: you’re going to love this strawberry and chicken feta salad.

Lunch or dinner, this is a sure-fire hit.

More delicious salad recipes:

• Turkey Harvest Salad Recipe
• Chicken Fajita Salad
• Easy Cheeseburger Salad Recipe