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Spring Chicken Dinner Salad

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A Cobbstyle salad with poached chicken avocados string beans radishes and cherry tomatoes.
Photo by Laura Murray

Poaching skinless, boneless chicken breasts in well-salted water yields impossibly juicy and flavorful meat that won’t dry out.  

  

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