Rethink how you eat your tacos. Get rid of the boring taco shell and make your next taco, a salad! This fresh and savory recipe is easy to make, even on the busiest of days!
How To Make Chicken Taco Salad
A wonderful recipe for tasty and satisfying bowl of chicken taco salad all in under an hour! This hearty dish would surely satisfy those cravings for Mexican take-out.
Prep:
15 mins
Cook:
10 mins
Total:
25 mins
Ingredients
- 6 cups Romaine lettuce, chopped
- 3 cups chicken breast, diced
- 2 tsp olive oil
- 1½ cup rice
- 1 can whole kernel corn, drained
- 1 can red beans, drained
- 1 green onion, diced
- 2 roma tomatoes, diced
- 1 red onion, diced
- 1 jalapeno, diced (optional)
- 3 limes, cut in half
- 1 cup Queso Chihuahua , or Kraft Mexican 4 Cheese
- ½ cup sour cream
Instructions
- In a medium pan, heat the olive oil.
- Add the chicken with salt and pepper to taste and sauté until golden brown.
- Take off of flame and place in a bowl to cool while you prepare the salad.
- In a large bowl, mix all the ingredients except for the sour cream and limes.
- Squeeze 2 limes into the salad and mix again, adding the additional if necessary.
- Top with sour cream.
Nutrition
- Sugar: 3g
- :
- Calcium: 194mg
- Calories: 435kcal
- Carbohydrates: 52g
- Cholesterol: 76mg
- Fat: 14g
- Fiber: 3g
- Iron: 2mg
- Potassium: 651mg
- Protein: 26g
- Saturated Fat: 6g
- Sodium: 313mg
- Vitamin A: 4593IU
- Vitamin C: 21mg
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