Simple Chicken & Bacon Salad

Salads definitely do not have to be boring! This Simple Chicken & Bacon Salad is one we have been making for years and is a complete meal so you don't feel like you are missing out.

Ingredients

500 g chicken breast or thigh, diced

400 g new potatoes

1 (bell) pepper diced

200 g cucumber

1 bag lettuce leaves (approx 100g)

2 baby gem lettuces

1 pot cress

340g tin sweetcorn drained

250 g plum tomatoes

8 rashers bacon diced

¼ tsp sea salt

pinch black pepper

½ tsp sunflower oil

Instructions

Cut the potatoes so they are all roughly the same size. Cook them in a pan of salted boiling water until the tip of a knife goes into them easily. Drain and leave to one side

Dice the chicken into bite sized pieces and season with the salt and pepper. Warm a large frying pan over a medium to high heat before adding the sunflower oil 

When the oil is hot, add the chicken and move around the pan occasionally for 5 minutes

Add the diced pepper to the chicken and cook for a further 2-3 minutes until the chicken is cooked through and brown and the peppers have softened slightly 

Remove the chicken and pepper from the pan and add the diced bacon

Once the bacon has released some of it's fat, add the drained potatoes. Let them cook until both the potatoes and bacon have become crisp

While the ingredients are cooking, you can be preparing the salad. Wash all of the vegetables and cut them however you would like. Arrange them in a large salad bowl along with the drained sweetcorn 

Once the hot ingredients have cooled for 5 minutes or so, add them to the salad and toss together so everything is mixed