Kale Salad with Crispy Chicken

What you’ll need:

• Kale (a bundle of dinosaur/Tuscan kale or curly kale)

• 4 cloves garlic

• Handful of golden raisins

• 1 small Lemon 

• Olive oil

• Breadcrumbs

• Chicken breast, boneless skinless 

How to make the salad:

1. Massage kale with a pinch of salt and olive oil

2. Heat olive oil over medium heat, add garlic, toast for a minute

3. Then add golden raisins, the juice and zest of one small lemon, season with salt and pepper and then toss into the kale 

4. In the same pan, heat a couple more tablespoons of olive oil and toast breadcrumbs for an optional crunchy topping

How to make the chicken (pan fry intructions):

1. Butterfly your chicken breasts into thin cutlets and season with salt and pepper

2. Create a breading station by pouring your eggs into one shallow bowl and the breadcrumbs into another shallow bowl. Whisk your eggs and season them with salt and pepper. For the breadcrumb mixture, I used 3 cups breadcrumbs, 2 tsp garlic powder, 1 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp pepper, 1/4 cup parsley.

3. Lay a piece of wax paper or a plate to the side to put your breaded chicken on.

4. Dip each piece of chicken into the eggs, and then into the breadcrumbs to coat thoroughly.

5. Fry in avocado oil or other high smoke point oil for about 3 minutes on each side or until internal temp is 165º.

Air fryer instructions:

1. Preheat your air fryer to 400º

2. Butterfly your chicken breasts into thin cutlets and season.

3. Create a breading station by pouring your eggs into one shallow bowl and the breadcrumbs into another shallow bowl. Whisk your eggs and season your eggs and breadcrumbs to your liking. (I used salt, pepper and garlic powder in the eggs and Italian seasoning in the breadcrumbs.)

4. Lay a piece of wax paper or a plate to the side to put your breaded chicken on.

5. Dip each piece of chicken into the eggs, and then into the breadcrumbs to coat thoroughly.

6. Spray the bottom of your air fryer with olive oil spray, then add half of the chicken pieces (depending on the size of your air fryer).

7. Spray the tops of the chicken with olive oil spray.

8. Air fry at 400 for 15 minutes. At the 7 minute mark, flip the chicken and spray the tops with more olive oil spray.