Tangy Chicken Salad With Fruit

This healthy and diabetes-friendly recipe takes only 20 minutes to prepare and serves four.

Ingredients

  • 1 pound roasted chicken breast
  • 1 medium-size bunch of spinach
  • 2 medium-size pink or white grapefruit
  • 2 medium Red Delicious apples
  • 3/4 pound seedless green grapes
  • 1/3 cup fat-free Dijon salad dressing

Directions
Remove and discard skin from chicken; tear chicken into bite-size pieces. Chop 1 cup loosely packed spinach leaves; set remaining leaves aside. Cut peel from grapefruit; remove sections with knife. Cut unpeeled apples into 3/4-inch chunks. In large bowl, combine chicken, chopped spinach, grapefruit, apples, grapes, and salad dressing; toss to coat. To serve, arrange remaining spinach leaves on platter; spoon chicken salad over spinach leaves. 

Nutritional Information
Serving size: 1/4 salad. 380 calories, 5 grams fat, 2 grams saturated fat, 380 milligrams sodium, 95 milligrams cholesterol, 45 grams carbohydrate, 6 grams fiber, 40 grams protein.

Diabetic Exchange
Fruit: 2; vegetables: 1; meat: 5; milk: 0; fat: 0; carbohydrates: 0; other: 0.

Diabetic exchanges are calculated based on the American Diabetes Association Exchange System. Exchanges are rounded up or down to equal whole numbers.

Recipe courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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