FC BBQ Chicken Chopped Salad. BBQ chicken chopped salad loaded with black beans, corn, bell pepper, and jicama is a refreshing meal similar to a famous pizza chain's salad. BBQ Chicken Chopped Salad Jump to Recipe This lighter version of a popular restaurant's favorite salad is packed with awesome flavor from BBQ-grilled chicken breast, jalapeƱos, cilantro, spiced tortilla chips, and a creamy homemade ranch dressing! Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate.
Pat the chicken dry with paper towels and season on both sides with salt and pepper.
BBQ Chicken Chopped Salad combines crunchy romaine lettuce with BBQ chicken, grilled corn, black beans, fresh tomatoes and crunchy red onions, all chopped to the same size then tossed in light ranch and bbq sauce - or your favorite dressing.
I tell you what, lately I can't get enough chopped salads.
You can have FC BBQ Chicken Chopped Salad using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of FC BBQ Chicken Chopped Salad
- Prepare 10 oz of mixed salad greens (2 bags).
- It's 1 ear of corn (boiled, steamed, roasted, or grilled are all good), kernels cut off.
- It's 10 of cherry or grape tomatoes, halved.
- It's 1/4 of small red onion, thinly sliced.
- You need 1/2 of an apple, cored and diced.
- You need 2 of precooked chicken breast halves (baked, roasted, grilled are all fine), cut into 1/2" cubes.
- It's 1/2 cup of grated cheese (I had mild cheddar. I think the original has Jack.).
- You need 10-20 leaves of basil depending on how much you like, chopped.
- You need 1/4 cup of BBQ sauce.
- Prepare 1/3 cup of Ranch dressing.
- You need of fresh lime.
I love how fresh, quick, and easy they are. *If you did not grill your chicken with BBQ sauce, dice your cooled chicken breast, toss in a little bbq sauce, place on salad and drizzle with more sauce. Heat olive oil in a medium skillet over medium high heat. Season chicken breasts with salt and pepper, to taste. Two days later, I ignored the guilty stares from the container of leftover Healthy Pepperoni Pasta Salad in my fridge and headed to Panera to order BBQ chicken salad a second time.
FC BBQ Chicken Chopped Salad step by step
- Your ingredients..
- Put salad greens in a large mixing bowl.
- Throw all your other ingredients on top then dress with Ranch and BBQ sauce and a healthy squeeze or two of fresh lime juice..
- Toss thoroughly and enjoy!.
It tasted even better than I remembered it. From this pivotal moment of BBQ chicken salad obsession, I had two options: redirect some of my discretionary income (a.k.a. happy hour and date night budget), into. Salads and I have a thing going on and this is my latest obsession. I was inspired to make a vegan version of the classic BBQ chicken salad with ranch. With a little testing, I feel like I struck pure salad gold.