Pret’s Chef’s Italian chicken salad has a loyal following for good reason: it eats like a proper meal rather than a punishment. Torn chicken, creamy mozzarella, sweet tomatoes and basil over crisp leaves with an Italian-style dressing — it is the rare grab-and-go salad that actually satisfies. The catch is the price, which creeps up weekly, and the fact that you cannot control what goes into it. This copycat pret a manger salad is my homemade version: the same Italian-deli character, built on air-fried chicken breast, light mozzarella and a simple homemade dressing, for about £2.10 a bowl and roughly 380 calories. The honest framing, as always with these recreations:…