The actual salad that Jennifer Aniston ate on the set of Friends was a customized Cobb salad and not the actual grain based dish made with quinoa, chickpeas, feta, cucumbers, pistachios and fresh herbs.
The Jennifer Aniston Salad is a Mediterranean style grain and chickpea salad that has gone viral and originally gained it's fame from a rumor that Jennifer Aniston along with her Friend's co-stars Lisa Kudrow and Courteney Cox, had ate the exact same salad every day for lunch on the set of Friend's for 10 years.
Although ironically, the salad that Jennifer Aniston actually had reported eating on the set of Friend's was in reality a heavily customized Cobb salad.
But, when Jennifer Aniston later shared her perfect salad on Instagram, her fans had mistook the recipe, which is actually a riff on tabbouleh for standing daily lunch.
And so this tabbouleh inspired quinoa salad is the recipe that had became a viral internet sensation.
The viral Jennifer Aniston salad is also highly customizable.
But it also classically consists of the following.
For the base, the ingredients for the viral Jennifer Aniston Salad include.
2 cups of cooked quinoa (originally bulgur wheat).
1 can of 15 ounce chickpeas that are rinsed and drained.
For the crunch.
1 English or Persian cucumber, diced.
1/2 small red onion, finely diced.
1/2 cup of roasted and salted pistachios, roughly chopped.
For the flavor of the Jennifer Aniston salad.
You use 1/2 cup of fresh finely chopped parsley.
1/2 cup of fresh mint, finely chopped.
And 1/2 cup to 1 cup of crumbled feta cheese.
For the dressing of the Jennifer Aniston salad you use the juice of 1 to 2 fresh lemons.
1/4 cup of extra virgin olive oil.
And salt and black pepper to taste.
And some variations also add a touch of honey or even a clove of minced garlic to the dressing.
The Jennifer Aniston salad is also loaded with plant based protein like chickpeas and quinoa, healthy fats from the olive oil and pistachios and fiber, which keeps you full and satisfied.