How To Make Chicken Apple Bacon Walnut Salad with Balsamic Vinaigrette
Delicious and refreshing with a crunch, this apple walnut salad is tossed with lettuce, bacon, and chicken in a honey mustard balsamic dressing.
Preparation: 15 minutes
Cooking: 20 minutes
Total: 35 minutes
Serves:
Ingredients
For Salad:
- 1½lbscooked chicken breasts,diced into strips, (about 3 chicken breasts)
- 8slicesbacon,cooked and diced
- 3medium apples,sliced
- ¾cupwalnuts,chopped, toasted or candied
- 9ozspring mix lettuce,with spinach
- 6ozfeta,crumbled
- ½cupcranberries,dried
For Balsamic Vinaigrette:
- ½cupextra virgin olive oil
- 3½tbspbalsamic vinegar
- 1½tbsphoney
- 2tspDijon mustard
- 2tbspshallot,finely chopped
- salt and freshly ground black pepper,to taste
Instructions
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Layer all salad ingredients into individual salad bowls or over plates. Serve drizzled with balsamic vinaigrette.
Balsamic Vinaigrette:
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Add olive oil, balsamic vinegar, honey, Dijon mustard, and finely diced shallot to a blender.
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Season with salt and pepper to taste and blend the mixture until well emulsified and thickened slightly.
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Store in refrigerator in an airtight container.
Nutrition
- Calories: 1009.41kcal
- Fat: 66.16g
- Saturated Fat: 19.65g
- Trans Fat: 0.08g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 34.04g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 8.69g
- Carbohydrates: 35.43g
- Fiber: 5.35g
- Sugar: 26.66g
- Protein: 67.99g
- Cholesterol: 220.71mg
- Sodium: 1263.68mg
- Calcium: 285.76mg
- Potassium: 951.73mg
- Iron: 3.84mg
- Vitamin A: 180.71µg
- Vitamin C: 10.92mg
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