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Chicken pesto bean salad

Chicken and white bean salad with pesto, tomatoes and rocket.

Pesto chicken and bean salad with cherry tomatoes.
395 kcal per servingPrep time: 34 minServings: 1LunchChicken saladPesto and beans

Ingredients

  • 120 g cooked chicken breast
  • 120 g cooked white beans
  • 100 g cherry tomatoes, halved
  • 50 g rocket
  • 1 tbsp basil pesto and lemon juice

Method

  1. Slice the chicken and rinse and drain the white beans.
  2. Loosen the pesto with lemon juice and a teaspoon of water.
  3. Toss chicken, beans, tomatoes and rocket with the pesto dressing.

Calories in context

At 395 kcal per serving, this dish is about 20% of a 2000 kcal daily reference intake — the standard reference amount used on nutrition labels, not a personal target.

Eaten as the midday meal in a three-meal day, it is one part of a day whose real total depends on your own body, activity level and goals, not on any single recipe. For a calorie range that reflects those, rather than a generic reference figure, the tools below can help.

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