How To Make Grilled Chicken, Avocado & Tomato Salad with Honey-Lime, Cilantro Vinaigrette
This tomato salad is brimming with flavors from the grilled chicken, creamy avocado, corn, & fresh lettuce. They’re all tossed in a sweet & tangy dressing.
Ingredients
- 1lbchicken breast,boneless skinless, grilled and diced into strips
- 1headRomaine lettuce,torn into bite size pieces
- 1pintgrape tomatoes,sliced into halves
- 1cupfresh corn,(from about 2 ears of corn)
- 2avocados,diced
- 4ozQueso Fresco,or Feta cheese, crumbled
For Honey-Lime Cilantro Vinaigrette:
- 3tbspfresh lime juice
- 3tbsphoney
- 3tbsprice vinegar
- ¼cuplightly cilantro,packed
- 1clovegarlic,minced
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
- â…“cupolive oil
Instructions
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To assemble salad, layer lettuce onto serving plates, then divide remaining ingredients among plates over lettuce and drizzle with desired amount of vinaigrette, or alternately add all salad ingredients to a salad bowl and toss with desired amount of vinaigrette and serve.
Vinaigrette:
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In a blender combine lime juice, honey, rice vinegar, cilantro, garlic, salt and pepper and pulse mixture until cilantro has been finely chopped.
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With blender set on low speed (remove the center circular attachment from lid), slowly drizzle olive oil into blender in a slow and steady stream, then blend for 20 more seconds until slightly thickened.
Nutrition
- Calories:Â 731.76kcal
- Fat:Â 51.18g
- Saturated Fat:Â 11.54g
- Trans Fat:Â 0.36g
- Monounsaturated Fat:Â 29.22g
- Polyunsaturated Fat:Â 6.78g
- Carbohydrates:Â 40.10g
- Fiber:Â 12.36g
- Sugar:Â 20.91g
- Protein:Â 35.01g
- Cholesterol:Â 92.14mg
- Sodium:Â 1354.51mg
- Calcium:Â 259.91mg
- Potassium:Â 1518.97mg
- Iron:Â 3.78mg
- Vitamin A: 824.18µg
- Vitamin C:Â 34.81mg
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