How To Make Honey Mustard Chicken Salad With Bacon & Avocado
This chicken salad also has bacon, avocado, fresh lettuce, tomatoes, and corn. They’re all tossed in a honey-mustard dressing that serves as a marinade too.
Serves:
Ingredients
For Dressing/Marinade:
- â…“cuphoney
- 3tbspwhole grain mustard
- 2tbspsmooth and mild Dijon mustard
- 2tbspolive oil
- 2tbspapple cider vinegar,or white vinegar, optional
- 1tspgarlic,minced
- salt,to season
- 4chicken thighs,skinless and boneless, or chicken breasts
For Salad:
- ¼cupbacon,diced, trimmed of rind and fat
- 4cupsRomaine lettuce leaves,washed
- 1cupgrape tomatoes,sliced, or cherry
- 1large avocado,pitted and sliced
- ¼cupcorn kernels
- ¼red onion,sliced
Instructions
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Whisk marinade/dressing ingredients together to combine. Pour half the marinade into a shallow dish to marinade the chicken fillets for 2 hours if time allows. Refrigerate the reserved untouched marinade to use as a dressing.
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Heat a nonstick pan (or grill pan or skillet) over medium heat with about a teaspoon of oil and sear/grill chicken fillets on each side until golden, crispy and cooked through.
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Once the chicken is cooked, set aside and allow to rest.
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Wipe pan over with paper towel; drizzle with another teaspoon of oil and fry the bacon until crispy.
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Slice chicken into strips and prepare salad with leaves, tomatoes, avocado slices, corn, onion strips and chicken.
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Whisk 2 tablespoons of water into the remaining untouched marinade / dressing and drizzle over the salad. Sprinkle the bacon over the top and season with a little extra salt and cracked pepper (optional).
Nutrition
- Calories:Â 746.84kcal
- Fat:Â 51.83g
- Saturated Fat:Â 12.03g
- Trans Fat:Â 0.18g
- Monounsaturated Fat:Â 26.18g
- Polyunsaturated Fat:Â 9.30g
- Carbohydrates:Â 36.90g
- Fiber:Â 6.93g
- Sugar:Â 26.24g
- Protein:Â 36.26g
- Cholesterol:Â 193.80mg
- Sodium:Â 1006.59mg
- Calcium:Â 59.69mg
- Potassium:Â 1020.54mg
- Iron:Â 2.81mg
- Vitamin A: 274.89µg
- Vitamin C:Â 15.15mg
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