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$3.60 per serving
1 likes
Ready in 45 minutes
Spoonacular Score: 72% 
Need a dairy free main course? Layered Chicken Salad With Couscous could be a great recipe to try. One serving contains 432 calories, 42g of protein, and 15g of fat. For $3.6 per serving, this recipe covers 26% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. 1 person has made this recipe and would make it again. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 45 minutes. A mixture of avocado, parsley, cucumber, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so delicious. To use up the couscous you could follow this main course with the Couscous Mango Mousse as a dessert. All things considered, we decided this recipe deserves a spoonacular score of 75%. This score is solid. Try Layered Chicken Salad, Layered Chicken Salad, and Summer Layered Chicken Salad for similar recipes.
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Lycopene, the chemical in tomatoes that makes them red (and healthy), is fat soluble. This means eating tomatoes with a fat — say, avocado or olive oil?improves the body's ability to absorb the lycopene. Don't hesitate to include some healthy fats in this dish to get the most health benefits from the tomatoes!
Some bouillon/stock products contain gluten, some don't. If you are following a gluten-free diet, always read product labels carefully.
Many people will tell you to remove the skin on your chicken to cut down on fat. This is true, but if you like the taste, leave it on! You're only gaining a little fat for a lot of flavor. Plus, a little over half of the fat in chicken skin is monounsatured fat (that's a heart-healthy kind) and the notion that saturated fat is unhealthy is being questioned too. So in our opinion: dig in, skin and all!
You can use yogurt instead of mayonnaise to salads more protein rich and less heavy.
Most dairy products stay good well past their sell-by date. Instead of throwing out perfectly safe food that is just a few days or maybe even a week or two old, make sure the product smells fine, has a normal texture, and doesn't taste funny. Sniff testing isn't exactly rocket science and it can keep you from wasting food (and money).
If you find meat (especially grassfed and/or organic meat!) on sale, stock up and freeze it. Ground meat will stay good 3-4 months, while steaks, chops, etc., will be fine for at least 4 months.
Avocados are one of the "clean fifteen", so you don't have to buy them organic if you don't want to spend the extra dough.
Chicken breasts can be expensive, so you might consider buying a whole chicken and using all the parts for meals throughout the week.
Just a head's up: tomatoes shouldn't be refrigerated! They will lose their flavor and probably get mushy too. For more on selecting and storing tomatoes and other vegetables, check out the academy.
If you're buying an avocado to use for dinner tonight, make sure you choose a ripe one! Find an avocado that is soft enough to press your fingertips into. If it's too firm, it's not ripe. If it's almost smooshy, it's too ripe. The perfect avocado can be hard to find in stores, so you might have to buy your avocados in advance and ripen them at home. To speed up the ripening process, put the avocados in a paper bag with an apple or banana. It really works!
If you normally rinse your chicken?stop! You could be spreading bacteria around your kitchen and it isn't really necessary.
Choose pasture-raised chicken if it is available. If it is not at your supermarket, visit a farmers' market and ask around.
Tomatoes, especially cherry tomatoes, should be bought organic when possible. Moreover, buying tomatoes from your local farmers' market when they are in season is going to make your dish much, much tastier, not to mention more eco-friendly. In fact, we recommend using canned — or better yet, jarred?tomato products when tomatoes aren't in season instead of buying imported or greenhouse-grown tomatoes.
Buying chicken breasts in bulk can save you money, but we prefer to suggest cutting back on meat consumption by experimenting with some easy vegetarian meals, and then splurging on higher-quality meat where the animals have been raised ethically and the meat does not contain antibiotics, growth hormones, etc.
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