Breaded Chicken Breast in a Cucumber Yogurt Sauce

Pep up your average bacon and tomato lettuce salad with cucumber yogurt sauce and breaded chicken breast with this great boneless chicken recipe. It is not what you are used to, but it is not complicated to make or unpleasant to eat. A simple yogurt sauce makes a bacon, lettuce, and tomato salad recipe a lot more interesting, and breaded chicken breast adds some lean protein. Greek or strained yogurt is best for this dish, but ordinary low or nonfat yogurt can be used. Just be sure to pour off the excess liquid before making the dressing.

Pre-bread and shallow fry or oven bake boneless chicken breast pieces to make assembling this salad easy and fast. Cucumber sauce can also be made up to a few days before you make the salad and stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator. In fact, this sauce only improves with age. Check out this out of the ordinary salad and see what it could do for your meals.

Salad with Breaded Chicken, Bacon, and Yogurt Sauce

Ingredients -

Cucumber Yogurt Sauce:

1 cup yogurt
1/2 cup cucumber, shredded
1 clove garlic, minced
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon extra virgin olive oil

Breaded Chicken Breast and Salad:

2 boneless chicken breasts
1 tablespoon flour
1 egg, beaten
1/2 cup seasoned breadcrumbs
4 slices bacon
1 bag shredded salad greens
1 large ripe tomato

Preparation:

Add salt to shredded cucumber and allow to rest for ten minutes to half an hour, then squeeze out excess liquid. Mix cucumber with yogurt garlic and olive oil. Refrigerate until ready to serve.

Heat oil in a heavy skillet on the stovetop. Pound chicken breasts between two pieces of plastic wrap until even in thickness, and then dredge in flour.

Dip floured chicken in egg and coat in breadcrumbs, then shallow fry until golden brown.

Check internal temperature to make sure chicken is fully cooked and drain on paper towels. Fry bacon until crisp.

Cut tomato into wedges and mix with salad greens. Serve with chicken on the side, topped with crumbled bacon and a generous helping of cucumber yogurt sauce.

(Serves 2)

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Breaded Chicken Breast Cucumber Yogurt Sauce

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A Picture of our Salad with Breaded Chicken, Bacon, and Tomato Lettuce Salad - this breaded chicken salad is a wonderful salad for a lite lunch or dinner. It is also a nice begriming in smaller portions for a beginning to a multi course meal.