Chicken Salad Pitas
Janice Conway adds olives, cucumber and radishes to leftover chicken to create her Mediterranean-inspired salad tucked into handheld pitas. "This recipe is great for summer because there's no cooking involved," she writes from Reynolds, Illinois.5 ServingsPrep/Total Time: 15 min.
Ingredients
- 1-1/2 cups cubed cooked chicken
- 1 medium carrot, julienned
- 1/2 cup julienned cucumber
- 1/4 cup sliced radishes
- 1/4 cup sliced ripe olives
- 1/4 cup cubed part-skim mozzarella cheese (1/2-inch cubes)
- 1/3 to 1/2 cup Olive Garden Signature Italian Dressing
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- 5 pita breads (6 inches), halved
- Lettuce leaves
Directions
- In a bowl, combine the chicken, carrot, cucumber, radishes, olives
- and cheese. Add dressing and toss to coat. Line pita breads with
- lettuce leaves. Stuff about 1/3 cup chicken mixture into each half.
- Yield: 5 servings.
Nutrition Facts: One serving (prepared with part-skim mozzarella cheese and 1/3 cup fat-free salad dressing) equals 276 calories, 4 g fat (1 g saturated fat), 39 mg cholesterol, 674 mg sodium, 38 g carbohydrate, 2 g fiber, 20 g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 2-1/2 starch, 2 lean meat.