How To Make Taco Salad and Cilantro Lime Ranch
Treat yourself with a tasty Mexican dish anytime. This taco salad recipe is full of flavors that blend perfectly together.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 2largechicken breastboneless, skinless, halves
- 1 ½ cupsfresh salsa
- 1 ½ Tbsptaco seasoning mixstore bought or homemade
- 15ozblack beansdrained and rinsed
- 15ozpinto beansdrained and rinsed
- 1cupcorn kernelsfrozen
- 1headgreen leaf or iceberg lettucecut or torn into bite size pieces
- 1 ½cupsMonterrey Jack cheeseshredded or Cheddar cheese
- 3Roma tomatoesdiced
- 2avocadosdiced
- Sour creamfor serving
- 1recipecilantro lime ranch
- 6taco salad bowlsor fried flour tortilla chips
For Cilantro Lime Ranch:
- ¼cupmayonnaise
- 2Tbsp.mayonnaise
- ¼cupsour cream
- ¼cupmilk
- 1tbspbuttermilk ranch seasoning mix
- ¼cupcilantroabout a small handful
- 1smallclove garlic
- ½Limejuice
Instructions
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Place chicken in a slow cooker, pour salsa over the chicken and sprinkle with taco seasoning. Place lid over slow cooker and cook on low heat for 5 hours.
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Remove chicken from slow cooker (leaving salsa broth in slow cooker), shred chicken and set aside.
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Pour black beans, pinto beans and corn kernels into salsa broth in slow cooker. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
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Gently stir in chicken and cook on low heat for about 15 minutes until all ingredients are heated through.
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To prepare each salad, layer flour tortilla chips, lettuce, chicken mixture, cheese, avocados, tomatoes, sour cream and drizzle with cilantro lime ranch. Serve immediately.
Cilantro Lime Ranch
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Combine all ingredients in a blender and blend until all ingredients are finely chopped. Store in refrigerator.
Recipe Notes
Scoop chicken mixture out of slow cooker using a slotted spoon.
Nutrition
- Calories: 3587.06kcal
- Fat: 296.84g
- Saturated Fat: 88.09g
- Trans Fat: 0.10g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 81.33g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 116.86g
- Carbohydrates: 144.18g
- Fiber: 32.61g
- Sugar: 28.66g
- Protein: 95.57g
- Cholesterol: 399.85mg
- Sodium: 2890.29mg
- Calcium: 1778.81mg
- Potassium: 3782.24mg
- Iron: 11.29mg
- Vitamin A: 885.90µg
- Vitamin C: 51.13mg
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