Lemon, chicken and olive salad

Serve up this tasty chicken, lemon and olive salad for dinner this week.

Recipe «Lemon, chicken and olive salad» presented in category Recipes / Salads, to prepare this dish you will need no more 20 minutes. To make this dish at home by prescription from the author Gomer would need: 3 chicken breast fillets, trimmed, 1 large lemon, sliced, 1 red onion, halved, thinly sliced, 100g pitted kalamata olives, chopped, 1/2 cup basil leaves, roughly torn , baby salad leaves, to serve .

Ingredients:

• 3 chicken breast fillets, trimmed 
• 1 large lemon, sliced 
• 1 red onion, halved, thinly sliced 
• 100g pitted kalamata olives, chopped 
• 1/2 cup basil leaves, roughly torn 
• baby salad leaves, to serve 

Instructions

1. Place chicken fillets in a saucepan and cover with cold water. Bring to the boil over medium-low heat. Cook for 8 to 10 minutes or until just cooked through. Remove from heat. Cover and set aside for at least 2 hours or until cooled to room temperature.
2. Drain chicken, reserving 1/4 cup poaching liquid. Shred chicken flesh.
3. Cook lemon slices in a small saucepan of boiling water for 5 minutes or until soft. Drain. Dice lemon rind and flesh. Discard seeds.
4. Combine chicken, reserved poaching liquid, lemon, onion, olives, basil and salad leaves in a large bowl. Season with salt and pepper. Serve.