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This healthy BLT Chicken Salad recipe is an easy Whole30 and Paleo friendly dish that only takes a few ingredients and comes together in under 30 minutes.
This chicken salad recipe is one of my most popular recipes on social media. Rightfully so, because this recipe is super easy to make and everyone loves BLTs!
Anything with bacon is always going to be a hit in my book! You can't go wrong with a classic BLT so I decided to take the bacon, lettuce, and tomato and turn it into a chicken salad version. Chicken salad is a great thing to make to have on hand during the week for lunches because it's healthy and takes next to no time to meal prep.
Ingredients
Substitution
Chicken- I love using a rotisserie chicken but you can use canned chicken if you like
Mayo- If you don't mind dairy, you can substitute the mayo for plain Greek yogurt
Onion- Red onion would also be great in this
Step by step
- Cook the bacon till crispy. I prefer to do mine on the stove but you can do it in the oven or however you like
- Debone and shred the rotisserie chicken and add it to a large mixing bowl
- Dice your tomatoes, onions, and spinach and add them to the mixing bowl with the chicken
- Add the mayo and seasonings to the bowl and mix everything together
- Crumble the crispy bacon into pieces and add it to the chicken salad mixture and stir to combine
How to serve
Here are some ways to serve this chicken salad.
- Sandwich- Adding this to some toasted gluten free bread would make for a great lunch
- Lettuce wraps- Use bib lettuce to make this into a lettuce wrap
- Add avocado
- Pasta- I love adding gluten free pasta to this to make a BLT chicken pasta salad
- Stuffed avocado- scoop out a little bit of an avocado, add it to the chicken salad, then filled the avocado with the chicken salad
Storing
Store in an air tight container in the refrigerator for up to 5 days.
Recipe
BLT Chicken Salad
Ingredients
- 1 whole rotisserie chicken
- 4 slices bacon
- 1 cup grape tomatoes diced
- 1 cup baby spinach roughly chopped
- ½ cup onion diced
- ½ cup mayonnaise
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- ½ teaspoon paprika
- ½ teaspoon pepper
- ¼ teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Cook the bacon till crispy. I prefer to do mine on the stove but you can do it in the oven or however you like
- Debone and shred the rotisserie chicken and add it to a large mixing bowl
- Dice your tomatoes, onions, and spinach and add them to the mixing bowl with the chicken
- Add the mayo and seasonings to the bowl and mix everything together
- Crumble the crispy bacon into pieces and add it to the chicken salad mixture and stir to combine-Serve cold
Shara
I have NEVER been a chicken salad girl so I wasn’t sure how I personally was going to like it! Omg I wish I had known about my love for this salad during tournament weekends! Now I know! It will be traveling with me bc it’s so good fresh out of the fridge and will make the perfect on the go dish for our whole family!