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chicken taco salad

serves 4
by Nancy

Ingredients

  • 2 boneless skinless chicken breasts
  • taco seasoning
  • olive oil
  • 2 ears corn or frozen fire roasted corn
  • 2 to matoes dices
  • 1 head romaine lettuce chopped
  • 1 bunch cilantro
  • 1 avocado diced
  • ½ cup shredded jack cheese
  • 3 scallions sliced
  • crushed tortilla chips

salsa ranch cilantro lime dressing:

  • ¼ cup salsa
  • ¼ cup ranch dressing
  • 3 tbl chopped cilantro
  • juice and zest of 1 lime

Instructions

  1. make dressing
  2. preheat grill if using
  3. sprinkle chicken with taco seasoning
  4. heat oil in a pan and cook chicken 5-6 minutes per side until cooked through
  5. cook corn in same pan as chicken until charred
  6. or grill corn and chicken together 10 minutes, until corn is charred and chicken is cooked through
  7. dice chicken and remove corn from the cob
  8. mix lettuce with all but 3 tbl chopped cilantro and the scallions
  9. serve with diced tomato, diced chicken, grilled corn, diced avocado and jack cheese
  10. toss with salsa ranch dressing and top with crushed chips

salsa ranch dressing:

  1. mix all the ingredients together and let sit while you make the salad