ENSALADA POLLO – a cool meal for hot summer days
Make this an easy dish with instant wild rice mix, bagged salad and rotisserie chicken. Top with a yogurt lime cilantro dressing and serve it with a frosty limeade .
- 2 – 3 limes, 1 sliced and one juiced
Prepare according to directions, sprinkle with the juice of ½ lime and set aside. Reserve the remaining lime juice for the street corn.
- 1 box instant wild rice mix, prepared according to the package
Divide among 4 – 6 dinner plates
- 1 bag of spring greens salad mix
Sprinkle over the salad
- ½ of one bunch cilantro, washed and leaves removed from stems. Discard stems, reserve the other half of the leaves for salad garnish
Shred and remove the bones from
- 1 deli rotisserie chicken
Divide among the salad plates
- the cooked wild rice
- 1 – 15 oz. can black beans, drained
- 1 – 15 oz. can sliced olives, drained
- 2 avocados, pitted, peeled and sliced, sprinkled with the other half of the lime juice
- 1 pkg. heirloom tomatoes, washed with leaves removed
- 1 pkg. crumbled Cotija cheese
Pour over
- Bolthouse Farms Lime Cilantro Yogurt Dressing
Serve with frozen limeade
FROZEN LIMEADE
Juice
- 8 key limes (1/2 C lime juice)
Set aside. In a sauce pan, stir together
- 1/2 C sugar
- 1/2 C water
Simmer until sugar dissolves, stir in lime juice, let cool.
In a blender whirl until slushy
- 6 C ice cubes
- limeade mix
Serve immediately