Warm Chicken and Spinach Salad Picadillo With Raisins, Olives and Fig Balsamic Vinegar

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The sweet-sour dressing tin beryllium made with plain balsamic vinegar and a interaction of honey. But if you're consenting to beryllium patient, Fig Balsamic Vinegar adds a deeper flavor. For leftover dressing (which volition keep, covered and refrigerated, for 2 months), effort drizzling it implicit roasted asparagus oregon spooning it implicit crystal cream; the infused figs (good for 1 month, refrigerated) tin beryllium wrapped successful pancetta and grilled.

Adapted from "Baja: Cooking connected the Edge," by Deborah M. Schneider (Rodale, 2006, $27.95).

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 4 large servings

For the Fig Balsamic Vinegar

1/2 lb dried achromatic figs
2 cups water
1/2 vanilla bean, split
1 1/4 cups balsamic vinegar, oregon much arsenic needed
1 orange, quartered (leave the peel on)
1/4 cupful honey

For the chicken

2 tablespoons fig balsamic vinegar oregon balsamic vinegar
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1/2 spoon kosher salt
4 (20 to 24 ounces) boneless, skinless chickenhearted bosom halves

For the salad

1/2 cupful fig balsamic vinegar (may substitute 1/2 cupful balsamic vinegar and 1/2 spoon honey)
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
Kosher salt
Freshly crushed achromatic pepper
1 ample clump spinach, stemmed
1 cupful ample greenish olives, pitted and halved
1/2 cupful seedless raisins oregon dried currants
1/2 cupful thinly sliced reddish onion
1 cupful halved cherry oregon grape tomatoes
1 reddish doorbell pepper, roasted and coarsely chopped (optional)*

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

Calories
325
Fat
15 g
Saturated Fat
2 g
Carbohydrates
27 g
Sodium
1217 mg
Cholesterol
53 mg
Protein
23 g
Fiber
4 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "Baja: Cooking connected the Edge," by Deborah M. Schneider (Rodale, 2006, $27.95).

Tested by Marcia Kramer.

Published March 12, 2026