Grilled Lemon Herb Mediterranean Chicken Salad (2024)

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Mar 19, 2020 by Karina · This post may contain affiliate links

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Grilled Lemon Herb Mediterranean Chicken Salad with a dressing that doubles as a marinade!

This Grilled Lemon Herb Mediterranean Chicken Salad recipe is as close to perfect as you can get!Fullof Mediterranean flavours: olives, tomatoes, cucumber, avocados, andchicken for a complete mealin asalad bowl!

Chicken Salad Recipe

With all of the salads I post on here, I thought some might be getting sick of these meal in salads recipes. BUT. It turns out, you guys are wanting MORE of these GIANT salads. Wracking my brains foranother awesome recipe, what’s better than a fresh, mediterranean salad with so much flavour, you won’t be able to put your forks down? Yes, I sound like an infomercial. No, I don’t care.

Salad dressing

As usual, I always try to create salad recipes that you only need ONE dressing / marinade. A salad that uses one thing for two uses. This comes from years of making salads that require completely different marinades for chicken or the meat of choice, then drowning it in a completely different tasting dressing, only confusing my brain and taste buds even more. Why do that when you can create one delicious marinade and use it as a dressing? That kinds makes more sense.

Optional additions

You can ALSO top it with some crumbled feta or goats cheese, which I didn’t have at the time, BUT it’s included in the recipe as an option for you to enjoy!

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Lemon Herb Mediterranean Chicken Salad

Author: Karina

Grilled Lemon Herb Mediterranean Chicken Salad that is full of Mediterranean flavours with a dressing that doubles as a marinade!

4.78 from 79 votes

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Prep: 10 minutes mins

Ingredients

Marinade/Dressing:

▢ 2 tablespoons olive oil
▢ juice of 1 lemon (¼ cup fresh squeezed lemon juice)
▢ 2 tablespoons water
▢ 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
▢ 2 tablespoons fresh chopped parsley
▢ 2 teaspoons dried basil
▢ 2 teaspoons garlic , minced
▢ 1 teaspoon dried oregano
▢ 1 teaspoon salt
▢ cracked pepper , to taste
▢ 1 pound (500 g) skinless, boneless chicken thigh fillets (or chicken breasts)

Salad:

▢ 4 cups Romaine (or Cos) lettuce leaves, washed and dried
▢ 1 large cucumber diced
▢ 2 Roma tomatoes diced
▢ 1 red onion sliced
▢ 1 avocado sliced
▢ ⅓ cup pitted Kalamata olives (or black olives), sliced (optional)
▢ Lemon wedges to serve

Instructions

Whisk together all of the marinade/dressing ingredients in a large jug. Pour out half of the marinade into a large, shallow dish. Refrigerate the remaining marinade to use as the dressing later.
Add the chicken to the marinade in the bowl; marinade chicken for 15-30 minutes (or up to two hours in the refrigerator if time allows). While waiting for the chicken, prepare all of the salad ingredients and mix in a large salad bowl.
Once chicken is ready, heat 1 tablespoon of oil in a grill pan or a grill plate over medium-high heat. Grill chicken on both sides until browned and completely cooked through.
Allow chicken to rest for 5 minutes; slice and arrange over salad. Drizzle salad with the remaining UNTOUCHED dressing. Serve with lemon wedges.

Notes

Add ½ cup crumbled feta to give the salad an even better flavour!

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Jason says
March 16, 2024 at 1:43 pm
The salad dressing is now my number 1 go to salad dressing. I was wondering if I made the dressing in bulk how long it would keep in the fridge, or even if i bottled it the lemon juice and vinegar should make it acid enough to keep well?
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Merve says
June 26, 2023 at 10:20 pm

I was looking for chicken salad recipes and came across your page. I have made this for me and my boyfriend and we loved it!!! Thank god I made too much so we kept eating it for the next coupe of days. Thank you for this cool summer recipe :))
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Marta Lynch says
June 25, 2023 at 3:02 am

Everyone loved this recipe! My husband said that it tasted like a salad you would order at a restaurant. I used cherry tomatoes, halved, and baby cucumbers, halved and sliced. The second time I made it, I doubled the receipe so that we could have enough dressing the second time we ate leftover. I likely added more romaine than what receipe calls for. The avocado gets a little brown second day, but still delicious. Great recipe!
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Amaya says
October 01, 2022 at 4:51 am

One of the best salads I’ve ever made or eaten. Very filling, very flavorful, easy to make and delicious. Have already made this once and will be making again next week for family!
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Jas says
September 25, 2022 at 6:57 pm

this is so so good- made it for lunch a while back and will definetly be having again.
A healthy yet tasty option- would recommend!
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Rachel says
August 13, 2022 at 8:33 pm

Honestly, i never thought I’d take the time to leave a comment about a salad recipe. Just be reading the ingredients, i knew it’d be good. I just didn’t know it’d be SO good! Followed recipe, served with couscous and garlic bread + made double the amount of dressing and chicken (1000g) and now have leftover chicken to use as a pizza topping with sundried tomato, spinach, and feta. Mmmm. You now have all my trust and I will continue to explore your other recipes.
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- Dohare says
  March 25, 2023 at 11:07 am
  
  Delicious and super easy
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Anais says
August 12, 2022 at 11:23 am

I made this salad for my husband, who does have a discerning palette, and about halfway through eating it he said, “This is a really good salad.” Another halfway through he said, “This is a really good salad. This is menu worthy.” It looked so pretty and was really tasty and just a great meal salad when you’re trying to be healthy. Thanks for sharing it. I’ve used some of your other recipes too and I really enjoy them!
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Sally says
January 15, 2022 at 3:45 am

This salad was amazing – so fresh and full of flavor (even for lunch the next day)! I also look for recipes that are either low sodium or ones that I can tailor to meet my low sodium needs and this one was perfect! I only added a dash of low sodium garlic salt (instead of 1 tsp of salt) to the marinade and I omitted the olives from the salad and it still didn’t lose any flavor. I also recently purchased a Ninja Foodi 5-in-1 indoor grill and the marinade was a perfect match with the boneless skinless chicken thighs and it grilled up perfectly – I’ll probably start cooking my thighs with this marinade for other meals!!
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Kristina says
January 12, 2022 at 3:48 am

This makes a fantastic chicken marinade, I use this weekly when I make big salads for dinner. Thanks!
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