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Marinated Chicken With Pineapple Avocado Salsa
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Marinaded Chicken With Pineapple Avocado Salsa

This Marinated Chicken with Pineapple Avocado Salsa is fresh, tasty, simple, and healthy!
Prep Time10 mins
Cook Time20 mins
Total Time34 mins
Course: Dinner
Servings: 2
Calories: 714kcal

Ingredients

  • 10.5 ounce skinless boneless chicken breast
  • 1 cup tomato diced
  • 1/3 cup red onion diced
  • 1.5 cup pineapple diced
  • 1 avocado diced
  • 1/2 cup fresh parsley chopped
  • 1/2 cup brown rice uncooked (or quinoa, buckwheat, amaranth, etc)
  • 1/4 cup Panko/breadcrumbs (GF if needed)

Marinade ingredients

  • 1 cup unsweetened pineapple juice
  • 1 tbsp soy sauce/Tamari
  • 3 cloves garlic minced
  • black pepper to taste
  • sea salt to taste
  • 1/2 tsp ground cumin
  • 2 tbsps extra-virgin olive oil

Instructions

For marinade

  • Add all ingredients for the marinade into a Ziploc bag and massage the mixture into the chicken. Set aside in the fridge for at least 4 hours, best is overnight. Keep a bit of the marinade for the sauce.

Directions

  • Preheat oven at 200°C.
  • Take the chicken out of the marinade (do not throw away the marinade).
  • Cover chicken with panko or breadcrumbs (optional) and cook in the oven until lightly brown and crisp.
  • Cook rice according to the package.
  • Heat coconut/olive oil and sauté onions over medium-high heat.
  • Add half of the pineapple and a bit of the marinade and cook for a few minutes.
  • Allow to cool down and add to all other salsa ingredients.
  • Serve.

Notes

You could make a bit more of the salsa and eat with mixed greens as a lunch salad.