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Texas salad

Natasha Sideris' Texas salad is a fresh and flavourful chicken salad recipe that's a classic at tasha's Battersea 

This salad was inspired by things we love: chicken, mielies, tomatoes, feta and olives. In hindsight, we wonder why we called it the Texas Salad. There is nothing Texan about a Greek salad with mielies. Despite this, it’s one of our best-selling salads and has been on the Classic menu from the start.

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Recipe is shared with permission from tashas Inspired. It's available to purchase at tashas Battersea and found in tashas Cafe Classics by Natasha Sideris

Ingredients

Serves 4

8 chicken breasts, flattened
2 tbsp olive oil

Lemon Basil Dressing

Juice of 2 lemons
100ml olive oil
Handful basil leaves
10ml basil pesto
Salt and pepper
8 sweetcorn cobs
24 cherry tomatoes, halved
32 kalamata olives
200g feta, crumbled
Handful basil leaves
2 large handfuls rocket leaves
Lemon wedges
  1. Step 1

    Season the chicken breasts and grill in a griddle pan.

    Step 2

    To make the dressing, combine all the ingredients in a blender until smooth.

    Step 3

    Cook the sweetcorn, cut the kernels off the cob and allow to cool. Toss the corn with the tomatoes, olives and feta. Add a small amount of the dressing and mix again. Combine the corn mixture with the basil and rocket leaves and add the rest of the dressing.

    Step 4

    Place the salad mixture into 4 serving bowls and top each with 2 grilled chicken breasts.

    Step 5

    Serve with lemon wedges.

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