Mediterranean Salad with Honey Dijon Chicken

As the weather continues to warm up, I’m leaning heavier on salads for the bulk of my meals for the week. It just feels so refreshing to eat a big plate of cooler temperature veggies!

Inspired by a recent kick of greek salad cravings, I came up with this mediterranean inspired salad served with chicken prepared inone of my favorite ways – smothered in mustard.

For the salad, I opted for a very generous helping of arugula and spinach, chopped bell peppers, avocado, red onion, cherry tomatoes, some chickpeas, feta, capers, and hemp seeds. I gave everything a little drizzle of olive oil and my tried and true balsamic glaze by Seggiano Foods.

For the chicken, I cut the chicken breast in half to get smaller cutlets, put it into a reusable plastic bag, and very simply added in about a teaspoon of Sir Kensington dijon mustard, a teaspoon of whole grain mustard, a sprinkle of paprika, and about a half teaspoon of honey to EACH SIDE of the cutlet. From there, all you have to do is smoosh it around and add it to a hot pan with a touch of avocado oil and cook it up! Slice it up and lay atop your beautiful salad, add a sprinkle of maldon rolled sea salt, et viola! This one is sure to impress your guests.

I highly encourage you to recreate this meal! If you do, go ahead and tag @spicythyme so I can see what you create — it brings me the most happiness!