Healthy Salads for Osteoporosis Patients

Here’s another recipe that can also be a complete meal and help build bone density:

Yogurt Chicken Salad

Yield: 4 servings (Provides 14 servings vegetables)

Ingredients:

• 2 cups chicken, cooked and cut into bite-sized pieces
• 2 cucumbers, sliced into bite-sized pieces
• 1 cup celery, sliced
• 1 medium hot chili pepper, seeds removed, sliced
• 1 bunch watercress, sliced
• 2 cups spinach
• One 15-ounce can black beans, drained
• 1 sweet red onion, diced
• 1 head Romaine lettuce, sliced into bite-sized pieces
• 2 pears, diced
• ½ cup shredded coconut
• 1 small can mandarin oranges, drained
• 1 cup plain yogurt or vanilla-flavored yogurt
• 1 tablespoon honey
• 3 tablespoons apple cider vinegar

Directions:

1. In a large bowl, add lettuce, watercress and spinach. Toss.
2. Then add cucumbers, celery, chili pepper, onion and black beans. Toss again. Then add chicken.
3. In a separate bowl mix yogurt, honey and apple cider vinegar. Pour over salad mix. Toss.
4. Then top with pears, mandarin oranges and coconut.