http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes/chicken_white_bean_salad.html
This salad is filled with stuff so I was hoping for the best. I substituted cannellini beans for white kidney beans (because my grocery store didn't have cannellini beans.) I also used a spring mix for the salad, fresh tomatoes for the sun dried tomatoes (hate those) and honey Dijon mustard instead of plain Dijon mustard (I had it already and didn't want to add yet another item to my already immense shopping list.) I also oopsed and bought light ricotta cheese which was definitely not a solid. So, mistakes and substitutes aside, I went forth and made a salad for dinner.
It was good, as in tasty, but a girl can only eat so much salad. And it wasn't nearly as filling as I had hoped.
Again, this made four servings so it was lunch again the next day. I couldn't finish it the second time, not because I was full, but because I was saladed out. The dressing was amazing though!
On a side note: light ricotta cheese is awesome! I used to eat it as a child and had no idea it was super-duper low in calories. It's kinda like an Italian cottage cheese and good with fruit so I had a fairly large bowl for breakfast (about 3/4 cups) with 3 apricots cut up and added to it and the apricots were worth more calories than the cheese.
Overall rating:
Number of calories: 423/serving - my most fattening meal to date
Will I "Make Again"?: Probably not, but I will do the dressing again.
Tastiness?: 3.5/5
Fills my tummy?: 3/5
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