Spinach Pesto & Chicken Salad

Everyone needs an easy salad recipe that tastes delicious and takes very little time. I try to eat salads a few times a week because the raw greens are so healthy and provide essential nutrients for gorgeous skin.

This Spinach Pesto & Chicken Salad recipe is a favorite of mine because it’s quick and easy.  When Isaac and I lived in Toronto we LOVED going to this vegan/vegetarian café called Fresh. They have the best salads, rice bowls, wraps and vegetarian burgers in Toronto. Just…so good.

So, when I heard that they had cookbooks featuring some of my favorite recipes from the restaurant I had to snatch them up. The cookbooks feature tons of creative, meat free recipes that are packed full of healthy, fresh veggies.

This recipe is one that I adapted from one of their cookbooks called Refresh.

I’m not a vegetarian, but I understand the value of taking a break from meat-eating every now and then. Plus, these cookbooks feature so many great ways to eat greens and veggies that the recipes are so easy to love-vegetarian or not.

Even though the photo of this salad is taken in a way so that you can clearly see the different ingredients, this is not how I serve it. I take a pair of kitchen scissors and cut all of the ingredients up in a large mixing bowl and I stir the salad and coat it with the pesto and dressing.

It’s not as pretty as this photo, but it’s so good! I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

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