Grilled Hula Chicken Salad

Name: Grilled Hula Chicken Salad
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 12 min
Total time: 27 min
Yield: 4 lunch size salads, 4 serving(s)
Ingredients: 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts; 1/4 medium pineapple, cored; 4 cups Baby Spinach; 2 cups alfalfa sprouts; 1 cup jicama, peeled and cut into matchstick size strips (julienne); 1 cup carrot, peeled and cut into matchstick size strips (julienne); 6 ounces fat free Greek yogurt; 2 tablespoons pineapple juice; 1/2 teaspoon curry powder; 1 dash pepper

Submitted by baybedux

"I cook the chicken / pineapple on our “George Hamilton” grill (what we call our Hamilton Beach “George Foreman-type ” grill.) You could also use your broiler instead. You only lose the lovely grill marks on the pineapple and chicken. Aloha"

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Ready In:: 27mins
Ingredients:: 10
Yields:: 4 lunch size salads
Serves:: 4

ingredients

4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
¹⁄₄ medium pineapple, cored
4 cups Baby Spinach
2 cups alfalfa sprouts
1 cup jicama, peeled and cut into matchstick size strips (julienne)
1 cup carrot, peeled and cut into matchstick size strips (julienne)
6 ounces fat free Greek yogurt
2 tablespoons pineapple juice
¹⁄₂ teaspoon curry powder
1 dash pepper

directions

Stir together yogurt, juice, curry powder & pepper. Refrigerate.
Spray unheated grill with cooking spray.
Arrange chicken on grill. Grill 6 minute Turn chicken.
Cut one, ½” thick, slice (ring) of pineapple (for garnish). Cut remaining pineapple into 1” thick slices.
Add pineapple to grill. Grill 6-9 min more or til chicken is cooked through. Turn pineapple once during grilling.
Line 4 salad plates with baby spinach leaves.
Cut grilled chicken into bite size pieces. Cut the 1 “ thick grilled pineapple slices into chunks (6-8 chunks per slice).
Gently mix chicken, pineapple chunks, carrot, jicama & yogurt mixture til well combined.
Mound 1/4 of salad atop spinach on each plate. Place a ring of sprouts around base of salad mounds.
Cut four, 1 ½ inch diameter, flower shapes from the ½ “ thick grilled pineapple slice. Using knife tip or skewer point, poke hole through center of each pineappple "flower".
Garnish top of each salad mound with one pineapple "flower".
Insert 2 carrot strips and 1 jimica strip into salad through center of each pineapple "flower" garnish (stamen)
Split 4 spinach leaves lengthwise. Insert two spinach pieces under side(s) of each pineapple "flower" (leaves).