• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
All She Cooks
  • Home
  • Recipes
  • About
  • Navigation Menu: Social Icons

    • Email
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Pinterest
    • Twitter
    • YouTube
menu icon
go to homepage
  • Find a Recipe
  • About Us
  • Free Planner!
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Pinterest
    • Twitter
    • YouTube
  • subscribe
    search icon
    Homepage link
    • Find a Recipe
    • About Us
    • Free Planner!
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Pinterest
    • Twitter
    • YouTube
  • ×

    Home » Gluten-Free

    Chopped Chicken Chipotle Salad - a Healthy Dinner Recipe

    Updated: Aug 31, 2020 · Published: Aug 15, 2017 · This post may contain affiliate links.

    Jump to Recipe - Print Recipe

    This post is sponsored by our partnership with Festival Foods.

    When it comes to making quick and easy meals for busy weeknight dinners and lunches, picking fresh ingredients is always a winning choice!

    chipotle chicken recipe

    Our palatable Chicken Chipotle Salad is full of healthy ingredients and includes good protein sources in chicken and black beans.

    A Chopped Salad for Lunch or Dinner

    This delectable salad is both delicious and filling. And, while you don't have to line the ingredients up in pretty pretty rows atop a bed of Romaine lettuce like we did, it certainly makes for a pretty presentation.

    It's easy to make this scale the size of this salad to your needs. We used fresh chicken, but if you want to make a smaller portion, you can always use frozen chicken and just take out a strip or two of chicken breast to meet your needs.

    easy chicken salad recipe

    Additionally, any leftover canned black beans and corn are easy to save and use for another recipe like Taco Soup. For our salad, we used half a can of both black beans and corn.

    Make sure to save the leftover beans and corn in a refrigerator safe container and don't store them in the can.

    How to Make Chopped Chicken Chipotle Salad

    Making chopped salad is easy enough, and the only semi-complicated part of making our Chopped Chicken Chipotle Salad is cooking the chicken and making the dressing.

    recipe chicken salad

    Where to Find Fresh Local Ingredients

    If you're looking for a time-saver, you can always use pre-cooked chicken from the deli meats section of the grocery store. Personally, I prefer fresh chicken from the meat department at Festival Foods.

    One of the things that takes this salad from good to great is fresh produce.

    We always look for the absolute freshest produce possible and are lucky to be able to shop at a grocery store that prides itself on providing local ingredients.

    chicken salad best recipe chicken

    Grilled Chicken Salad

    This amazing salad recipe is SO good!

    While the salad is definitely enough to enjoy on its own, it is also nice to pair alongside one of our favorite soup recipes. We're pretty partial to Zuppa Toscana, Roasted Tomato Soup, and Homemade Ham and Potato Soup.

    chicken breast salad recipe

    7 Layer Salad - Chopped Salad at It's Finest

    We love a good chopped salad. It's a simple recipe yet so pleasing to both the taste buds and the waistline.

    Cilantro and the chipotle dressing really bring the flavors of the salad together. Each and every bite are totally delicious.

    Add a bit of salt and pepper to taste to finish.

    good salad recipes with chicken

    Chopped Salad Restaurant Quality

    You can easily make a quality restaurant style chopped salad at home. You don't even have to be a pro in the kitchen to do it!

    Everyone has to start somewhere when it comes to learning how to cook, and this salad is a great place to start.

    It's simple to toss a salad, and with this recipe, we're adding in a couple simple cooking techniques to bring it all together.

    great salads recipes

    Chopped Chicken Salad Recipe

    The first technique is grilling or cooking the chicken. You can do this a few different ways, and each will come away with it's own unique flavor.

    First, and the option we chose for cooking the chicken we used in this salad, is to heat a tablespoon of olive olive in a small skillet on the stove top.

    We added a couple small strips of raw chicken breast and cooked until done, flipping just once during cooking. Since we added seasoning to the entire salad, we opted not to season the chicken during this step, although you certainly could add your choice of seasoning for additional flavor in the salad.

    The second way to cook the chicken would be to cook it out on the grill. This is ideal if you are preparing the salad for a lunch the next day and plan to grill out for dinner.

    We think of this as taking care of dinner prep for two meals at one time. Thinking ahead is always a good thing!

    The third way we recommend cooking chicken for this Chopped Chicken Salad recipe is cooking it on a George Foreman Grill or something similar.

    We do this now and again (see our Grilled Blackened Chicken) and it always sears in the natural flavors of the chicken and the result is a delicious and tender chicken.

    delicious salads with chicken

    How to Make Chipotle Dressing for Salad

    Chipotle dressing is easy to whip up. It seriously takes less than 5 minutes, from scratch.

    The ingredients needed for the dressing are red wine vinegar, honey, olive oil, salt and pepper, garlic and of course those phenomenally flavored chipotle peppers in adobo sauce.

    To mix up the dressing, we simply toss all the ingredients together into a food processor or blender and mix a liquid consistency.

    grilled chicken salad recipe

    Chipotle Salad Dressing

    If you don't have five minutes to spare to throw together this delicious homemade Chipotle Salad Dressing, you can always buy a bottle of Chipotle salad dressing at the store.

    It's not the same as homemade, but it can work in a crunch.

    However, we highly suggest you go all out and make salad dressing from scratch. The flavor is SO worth it.

    Grilled Chicken Chipotle Salad is an easy chopped salad that is full of flavor and protein and a great salad to serve for dinner or to make for lunch. This salad is filling and flavorful.

    We love this easy Chopped Chicken Chipotle Salad for an easy weeknight meal and a delicious meal to pack in a school lunch or bring to work.

    grilled chicken salad recipe

    Chopped Chicken Chipotle Salad - a Healthy Dinner Recipe

    All She Cooks
    Grilled Chicken Chipotle Salad is an easy chopped salad that is full of flavor and protein and a great salad to serve for dinner or to make for lunch.
    5 from 1 vote
    Print Recipe Pin Recipe Save Recipe Saved!
    Prep Time 10 mins
    Cook Time 15 mins
    Total Time 25 mins
    Course Salad
    Cuisine American
    Servings 2 servings
    Calories 1017 kcal

    Ingredients
     
     

    • 2 chicken breasts boneless, skinless

    For Salad:

    • 2 cups lettuce chopped
    • 15 oz black beans drained and rinsed
    • 1 cup corn kernels fresh
    • ½ red onion chopped

    For Dressing:

    • 1 chipotle pepper in adobo sauce
    • 3 tbsp red wine vinegar
    • 2 tbsp honey
    • ⅓ cup olive oil
    • ½ tsp salt
    • ¼ tsp black pepper
    • 2 cloves garlic

    Instructions
     

    • Prepare chicken by cooking in skillet on stove in 1 tablespoon of olive oil over medium low heat until done. Alternatively, cook chicken on grill.
    • Chop remaining salad ingredients and make salad.
    • Mix together ingredients for Chipotle dressing either in a food processor or blender.
    • Top salad with dressing.

    Nutrition

    Calories: 1017kcalCarbohydrates: 88gProtein: 70gFat: 44gSaturated Fat: 7gCholesterol: 145mgSodium: 1096mgPotassium: 1846mgFiber: 21gSugar: 22gVitamin A: 466IUVitamin C: 9mgCalcium: 93mgIron: 6mg
    Keyword chicken chipotle salad, how to make chicken chipotle salad
    Grab your Free Meal Planner!Use our free printable meal planner to plan your meals, keep your grocery list, and more.

    Save

    More recipes you may enjoy

    • Ginger Lime Chicken
    • Bang Bang Spicy Chicken Lettuce Wraps
    • Dessert Kabobs - Dessert on a Stick
    • Pancake and Sausage on a Stick

    Reader Interactions

    Leave a Comment Cancel reply

    Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

    Recipe Rating




    Primary Sidebar

    Nicole is a recipe developer, food photographer, and published cookbook author. At All She Cooks, she shares simple recipes to make every day a little bit more delicious. About Us →


    click to get our printable weekly meal planner

    Trending

    • Copycat Cheesecake Factory Pumpkin Cheesecake Recipe
    • The Best Pumpkin Desserts
    • Cinnamon Sugar Cruffins
    • Easy Pumpkin Bars

    Hot New Recipes

    • Chicken Bacon Ranch Pasta
    • Strawberry Cake Mix Cookies
    • Lucky Charms Cookies
    • Easter Egg Rice Krispie Treats

    Footer

    Contact Us | Privacy Policy, Disclosures, & Terms of Use
    As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Learn more here.

    Copyright © 2023 Hook & Porter Media

    726 shares