To the outside world, Jennifer Aniston’s role on Friends is synonymous with the hairstyle “The Rachel”. However, to her inner Friends-clique, Jen was associated with something else entirely. The actress, known for her healthy eating habits, was the brains behind a salad recipe that she and co-stars Lisa Kudrow and Courteney Cox ate on set every day for a decade.
During a recent interview with the LA Times, long-time friend Courteney Cox revealed that Jen “just has a way with food.” Discussing the dish, now known across the Internet as “The Jennifer Aniston Salad,” the Homecourt founder described it as “a cobb salad that Jennifer doctored up with turkey bacon and garbanzo beans and I don’t know what.”
Luckily for us, a generation of Internet sleuths have uncovered what they believe to be the recipe and it’s since gone viral across TikTok (with a bit of creative license here and there).
TikTok user @themodernnonna’s recreation of The Jennifer Aniston Salad has been liked almost 100k times. In the video she gives us the closest possible version of how to make the delicious and healthy lunch, adding her own dressing of lemon and olive oil at the end.
Naturally, we’re pretty eager to try it out for ourselves because as Courteney said, “if you’re going to eat the same salad every day for 10 years, it’d better be a good salad, right?” Right.
Here’s the recipe for The Jennifer Aniston Salad (according to TikTok):
The Jennifer Aniston Salad
- 3½ cups cooked bulgur wheat
- 2-3 chopped small cucumber
- ½ cup chopped parsley
- ½ cup chopped mint
- ⅓ cup chopped red onion
- ½ cup chopped pistachios
- 1 can chickpeas, drained and rinsed (optional: while not believed to have been in the original salad, TikTok users claim Jen loves chickpeas)
- ½ cup crumbled feta
Dressing:
- Juice of 1 lemon
- ¼ cup extra virgin olive oil
- Salt and pepper
Method:
- Cook the bulgar on the stove (per instructions on the back of the packet)
- Chop up all your vegetables and add everything to a bowl
- Crumble the feta and add chopped pistachios
- The dressing is optional (Jennifer’s original salad was undressed)
And enjoy!
How delicious does this sound? Are you going to give The Jennifer Aniston Salad a try?
Mmm mmmm sounds delightful. I’ll be making this one for sure.
I want to say “same” but mine will be more of an attempt…
I love salads but would need to try this altogether. Not sure I would go for this! Where’s the turkey!?
No, it contains items not suitable for my body make-up. Not a salad fan either xD
YOU aren’t a salad fan, Yoh? Hahahahaha!
I buy a salad like this quite often from a salad cafe where I live but the only difference is that it has brown rice instead of the bulgur wheat and no pistachios.
I’d definitely like to give this salad a try
Sounds nice. I wouldn’t add the chickpeas, they can be a bit floury without a lot of dressing.
No, It doesn’t appeal to me.
I’m celiac so the bulghur wheat is a no go. I think I would get bored eating the same thing everyday.
It sounds alright, I might try it one day.
What is bulger wheat?
Coarsely-cut whole durum wheat.
Not something I’d try.
oh yum i want that salad but I’d have to swap the fetta cheese up with something vegan and I’d be right as rain (just effected by all the sheets of rain outside the window atm – by golly, La Nina has ARRIVED!)
Um can I just say that I’m a bit over seeing that pair of underpants every time I click into anything at all on bh. Am I alone on this one?!
On the “Do Vaginas Really Need to Breathe?” ad, Ccw? Yeah, ditto!
Same here! Haha!
Did I say ‘a bit’ lol no I mean ‘very’ – not gonna lie here, just say’n, those undies are annoying! ; D
I do something like this about twice a week but some of the ingredients I do different but I could easily eat it every day which I might do when hubby is away with his operation in a few weeks. Oh now I remember what I had forgotten to get at the shops today….chickpeas.
I hope it’s nothing serious, Jatz – wishing him well!
It sounds OK, but every day for a decade? No, it doesn’t sound THAT good!
I’d like to swap the ratios of bulgur & pistachios.
I have never heard of bulgur wheat but will be looking for it now that I know it is lower in calories compared to quinoa and can be a substitute for brown rice and couscous.
It’s traditionally used in kibbeh and tabouleh.
I love salads but am happy to just make one up with the products on hand -I certainly would try it if I had all those products but wouldn’t go out to buy especially
This looks delicious
No wonder they looked so skinny, eating nothing but salad!
It does sound yummy though, I’d love to try it
I make my salad with cos lettuce, plant based feta, toasted almonds and topped with a balsamic dressing
I love Botanical Cuisine’s Persian Feta- so addictive!
My gut wouldn’t cope with that salad.
Delish.
Sounds delicious but I couldn’t eat the same thing for lunch everyday!
Looks delicious but I’m not sure I could eat is every day for 10 years.
Yummy!
Im not the biggest fan of salads, but it does sound nice and fresh
Sounds like a delicious and healthy salad. However, if I was to have it daily, I would have to rotate dressings so I could enjoy a change.
Sounds like an interesting salad.
Oil and fetta, high fat which does not make it healthy. How boring, I eat salads every day (even in cold Vic winter) variety is the key, I put heaps of different things in, depending on what is available and in season. No oil, just lemon juice and a touch of tahini, grated fresh turmeric and ginger for flavour. Occasionally avocado.
This is not the salad she had… it is fake news. It was just a salad she had one day for one of those day on a plate things for Women’s Health. The real salad is a Cobb salad.
I never cared about celebrity diet tbh
I could never eat the same thing every day