Hi Everyone,
Today I am so excited because today I teamed up with Healthy Aperture and the Cherry Marketing Institute for an awesome giveaway and to celebrate one of my favorite little fruits, cherries! Yah!!! This is the perfect time to celebrate cherries because it is National Cherry Month!! So let’s get rolling to today’s recipe, which is Chicken and Sweet Potato Cherry Salad! Yummmmmmy!!!
My salad is made with roasted sweet potatoes, juicy chicken that was marinated in Tart Cherry Juice dressing, slivered almonds, goat cheese and my favorite part of the salad, dried tart cherries. Oh how I love those little tart cherries. I happened to pop a few in my mouth while putting my dinner together, he he This salad is the perfect balanced meal. It contains protein, carbs, fiber and healthy fats!! It’s great for dinner or even for lunch. I made sure I made extra so I could have it for lunch the next day. This salad is perfect warm or cold!
I made a delicious slightly tart, savory and a little sweet dressing for my salad. It’s made with tart cherry juice, red wine vinegar, stevia, garlic, mustard and olive oil. I made sure that I made enough dressing to marinate my chicken in it too. Let me tell you the dressing is fantastic, especially on the chicken. My chicken turned out so moist, juicy and tender. I normally love to grill my chicken, but being chilly out, I decided to bake it and baking it was the way to go!! I love when you cut a piece of chicken and the juice just flows out of it. That’s when you know you cooked it right! Oh yah!
Did you know that dried Tart Cherries are rich in vitamin A and did you know that Montmorency tart cherries contain anthocyanins, a flavonoid that contributes to the ruby-red color and distinguishing taste. I love the taste! They make for a great snack and because they contain phytonutrient compounds inside, which may help prevent disease and keep your body working properly. Now that’s a great reason to eat tart cherries!!! If you want to check out other cherry recipes, go to Choose Cherries.com They have some wonderful, unique recipes! I found quite a few I want to try!
- Serves: 4 servings
- Serving size: 1 plate (1/4 of recipe)
- ⅔ cup tart cherry juice
- 1 tsp. dijon mustard
- ½ tsp. garlic
- 2 tbsp. red wine vinegar
- ¼ tsp. stevia
- 1 tsp fresh thyme or ½ tsp. dried thyme
- 1 tbsp. olive oil
- 1 lbs. chicken, skinless, boneless
- ¼ tsp salt
- ¼ tsp. pepper
- 8 oz sweet potatoes (two medium potatoes), peeled, diced into bite size pieces
- 1 tsp. olive oil
- salt & pepper to taste
- 8 cups mixed greens
- ⅓ cup dried tart cherries
- ¼ cup slivered almonds, roasted
- ¼ cup goat cheese
- Make Cherry Balsamic Vinaigrette:
- In a measuring cup, add tart cherry juice, mustard, garlic, red wine vinegar, stevia and fresh thyme; whisk together until combined. While whisking add olive oil. Makes 1 cup.
- Spray a 9 x 13 baking dish with cooking spray, add chicken and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Pour ¼ cup of dressing over the chicken and let it marinate in the refrigerator for 1 hour. Reserve the remaining dressing for topping on the salad.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Line a baking sheet with aluminium foil sprayed with cooking spray or you can use parchment paper; set aside.
- In a bowl add sweet potatoes; drizzle olive oil over potatoes and sprinkle with salt & pepper; mix together. Spread potatoes on prepared baking sheet. Place in oven for 15 minutes; flip and cook potatoes another 10 - 15 minutes until fork tender.
- When you add the potatoes in the oven, add the chicken and bake the chicken for 30 to 35 minutes until no longer pink. Let chicken cool for a couple of minutes, then slices into bite size pieces.
- Evenly divide between 4 plates; add mixed greens, sweet potatoes, chicken, slivered almonds, dried cherries and goat cheese. Serve with remaining cherry balsamic vinaigrette.
I am so excited for this giveaway!! The Cherry Marketing Institute is offering an amazing Giveaway for one lucky winner, including a year’s supply of tart cherries, a KitchenAid 7-Quart Mixer, Le Creuset 4.5- Quart Dutch Oven and an Anthropolgie Apron. Awesome! I want to win this!!!
Ohhh, so excited for the giveaway!! Just enter below!
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Have a cherryrific day!
Toodles,
Jennifer
To read more about the Health and Nutrition benefits of tart cherries, visit ChooseCherries.com. For more recipe inspiration, be sure to follow Choose Cherries on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.
“Disclosure: I was asked to participate in the National Cherry Month #GoTart Campaign as a member
of the Healthy Aperture Blogger Network. I received free samples of tart cherries mentioned in this post
from the Cherry Marketing Institute. I was compensated for my time. Opinions expressed are my own.”
I love to #GoTart and enjoy Tart Cherries in a cobbler or pie.
Yum!! I love cobbler, and now I am craving one!!
I love make sweet and tart Cherry Smoothies!
Me too! they add such great flavor to smoothies!
I like to eat them alone or put them in a lettuce and corn salad.
Corn salad, that’s different, and I love it!
cherry almond scones !
Oh ya! Love cherries and almonds together in scones, yes please!
I can’t wait to try it!
Thank you Wendi!! 🙂
What an awesome giveaway! This salad looks delicious!
Thank you so much Amye! 🙂
I would say a pie!!!
You can’t go wrong with cherry pie!
Tart Cherry juice is a favorite of mine. Thanks!
I have to agree! I love cherry tart juice too! Yum!
Yum! I would make this salad for sure!
Thank you so much Teresa!!
Love tart cherries for pies. Though your salad looks absolutely amazing, too!
Ahhh, thank you so much Carrie!
I love mixing it into my oatmeal in the mornings!
Yup, me too and that’s what I am having for breakfast!!
I love you use them with duck breast, but this looks amazing too!
Wow! That sounds just amazing!!
I love dried cherries in cookies
I know they add a good flavor and chew to a cookie!
I love them in smoothies, parfaits and cooked in my oatmeal. Oh, and you can never go wrong with a delicious cherry pie : ) What a great giveaway..thanks!
I have to agree with you I love cherries in all the goodies you mentioned! Now I am craving oatmeal with cherries! I know what I am having for breakfast tomorrow!
The color of that KitchenAid mixer – amazing!!!
I know, I want one! I love the color!
Cherry pie has always been my favorite and brings back good memories. My Grandma Helen would make it for me whenever we went back home to Wisconsin to visit family. It was the best pie ever! Plus, cherries are red…my favorite color!
Ohhh, I bet her pie was so good!! Good reason to go home!!
I love baking with dried cherries and happened to have posted a double chocolate cherry cookie today.
Ohhh, I am so checking that out!!
Wow! This salad looks and sounds amazing! And the giveaway? Shut the front door!! 😉 Thanks for the chance to win!!! It’s amazing, too!!! 🙂 xo
Thank you so much Joanna! Ha ha you made me laugh! I always say Shut the front door too!
I love cherries in salads and cookies! Thanks!
Me too! I just made cookies with them, they just didn’t photograph nice! 🙁
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I love this giveaway! Awesome!
Thanks, me too! 🙂
Cherry cheese braid.
Oh my gosh, that sounds good! I need a recipe for that!!
Tart cherries & dark chocolate!
You said it! Cherries and chocolate are one of my favorite combos.
I love cherries plain just by themselves, but they are also great in cobblers or mixed in my morning yogurt
I love them in my yogurt too!! Yummy!
Cherry cream scones.
That sounds good!!
I like the tart cherries in juice or a pie. Thanks for having this contest.
Your welcome!! Oh yah! Love it in pie!!
I love to add cherries to my smoothies
Ohhhh, me too! One of my favorite ways to have them!!
We like to eat them by themselves!
They are so good that way!! Makes for a nice treat!
Favorite way to eat tart cherries….Cherry Pie!
Yum!! Love cherry pie too!!
I love tart cherry juice! Often when entertaining, I make cocktails out of tart cherry juice, as it cuts the sweetness.
Such a wonderful idea!!
I love cherries! Dried cherries in salads, cherry juice, cherry pie, cherry cake, you name it, I like it. I even eat them as is for a quick snack. I think my all-time favorite is my Cherry-Chocolate Chip Scones. Yum.
Ha ha! Love all the cherry recipes! Ohhhh, Cherry Chocolate Scones sound amazing!!
I love to just pop them in my mouth as a snack
They are so good that way, aren’t they?
Love cherries in my morning oatmeal. Frozen is easiest but sometimes dried ones find their way into my breakfast
I love them in my oatmeal too! Reminds me I need to get more oatmeal!
This is a great giveaway!! I can always use more kitchen accessories!
You and me both! I love kitchen accessories, especially the blender. Love the red color.
My favorite jam is cherry jam and I love to use those tart cherries to make jam. Your salad looks delish Jennifer, such a delicious combination!
This salad is just perfect to me, so many of my fave ingredients in one dish :).
I really love eating cherries as part of my post workout snack, I hear they’re good at repairing and helping your body recover after exercise. AND they are freaking delicious.
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Wow! I didn’t know that about cherries! I’ll have to eat more of them! 🙂
I love cherries on top a classic original graham cracker crust cheesecake as it’s the perfect topping to a delicious moist dessert!
I use dried cherries in my chocolate cherry granola. I also use cherry juice and dried cherries in a variety of smoothies.
I love smoothies with cherries and cherry pie filling!!!!
We #GoTart by using tart cherries on cheesecake!
I love using cherries in salads – such a great recipe!
Love dried cherries in salad!!!!
I love cherry juice thanks for the giveaway 🙂
These flavors sound so amazing together! And what great information about cherries. I only recently discovered dried cherries and now want to pair them with everything (the ones I don’t eat by the handful that is!) Love this healthy and hearty option!
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Oh my gosh! I just love dried cherries! I could just throw them in everything! 🙂
I love dried cherries in my salads, this is a great post and giveaway!
I’d definitely use the juice to try to make cherry brandy!
I’ve never actually had tart cherries, I think, but the Tart Cherry Crumble Bars recipe on their pinterest page sounds amazing!
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I’m so boring, but almost all dried cherries end up in salads for me! I also make a blue cheese and dried cherry dip that I really like.
In a smoothie . . . but I am looking for more ideas.
Yum! I love cherry smoothies!
I love a tart cherry pie!
I love using them in a pie!