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🥗 Warm-Cold Chicken Potato Salad with Pesto
620 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings
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Ingredients
- 20 g sultanas
- 350 g chicken breast fillet (2 chicken breast fillets)
- salt
- pepper
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 25 g pine nuts
- 30 g black olives (dry marinated, pitted)
- 250 g waxy potatoes
- 3 tbsp light pesto
- 3 sprigs basil
- 75 g mild feta cheese
Instructions
- 1. Place the raisins in a small bowl.
- 2. Cover the raisins with warm water.
- 3. Let the raisins soak for ten minutes.
- 4. Rinse the chicken breast fillets thoroughly.
- 5. Pat the meat dry with a kitchen towel.
- 6. Season the meat with salt and pepper.
- 7. Heat oil in a frying pan.
- 8. Fry the meat for three minutes on each side.
- 9. Pour enough water into the pan to cover the bottom.
- 10. Cover the pan.
- 11. Let the meat cook for four minutes over medium heat.
- 12. Add more water if necessary.
- 13. Let the cooked meat cool down.
- 14. Cut the meat into cubes of about one centimeter in size.
- 15. Lightly toast the pine nuts in a pan without fat.
- 16. Chop the olives coarsely.
- 17. Drain the soaked raisins.
- 18. Chop the raisins coarsely.
- 19. Add the raisins, pine nuts, and olives to a bowl.
- 20. Wash and peel the potatoes.
- 21. Cut the potatoes into cubes of about one and a half centimeters.
- 22. Add the potato cubes to boiling salted water.
- 23. Cook the potatoes for nine minutes.
- 24. Remove two tablespoons of the potato cooking water.
- 25. Stir the cooking water into the pesto.
- 26. Drain the potatoes.
- 27. Let the potatoes drain well.
- 28. Mix the potatoes with the pesto mixture.
- 29. Add the potatoes to the other ingredients in the bowl.
- 30. Season the salad with salt and pepper.
- 31. Let the salad marinate for ten minutes.
- 32. Wash the basil.
- 33. Shake the basil dry.
- 34. Pluck the basil leaves from the stems.
- 35. Chop the basil leaves coarsely.
- 36. Crumble the feta cheese with your fingers.
- 37. Sprinkle the basil and feta cheese over the salad just before serving.
Nutrition per serving
- kcal: 620
- Protein: 56 g · Fett/Fat: 31 g · Carbs: 25 g