Chicken, bacon and avocado salad with mānuka honey dressing

Chicken, bacon and avocado salad with mānuka honey dressing

Elevate your everyday salad with the nourishing power of Mānuka honey. This vibrant chicken and spinach salad is full of flavor and balanced nutrition — paired with a tangy-sweet homemade vinaigrette that gets its richness from pure, New Zealand Mānuka honey. Perfect for a light lunch, a quick weeknight dinner, or a meal-prep option that doesn’t compromise on taste.

Salad Ingredients

• 1-2 cups spinach
• 2 slices bacon, cooked and diced
• ½ cup diced (or shredded)cooked chicken
• Handful of chopped capsicum
• ½ avocado, peeled, pitted and diced
• ⅛ cup of dressing, to serve (see recipe below)

Dressing Ingredients

• 3⁄₄ cup olive oil
  
• ¹⁄₄ cup apple cider vinegar
• 2 tbsp water
• 2 tbsp mānuka honey
• 1 ¹⁄₂ tsp salt
• ¹⁄₄ tsp pepper

To make the salad:

1. Combine the spinach, bacon, chicken, capsicum and avocado together in a bowl. Drizzle evenly with the dressing, and toss to combine.

To make the dressing:

1. Combine vinegar, water, honey, salt and pepper in a blender.
   
2. Drizzle olive oil into blender while blending until combined.
   
3. Store in an air tight container in the fridge.