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Summer Salad with Grilled Chicken, Bacon & Chipotle Lime Vinaigrette

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A filling summer salad with grilled chicken, bacon, cashews, sliced almonds, pumpkin and sunflower seeds. It is dressed with a chipotle lime vinaigrette.

Ingredients

  • FOR THE SALAD:
  • 4  Boneless, Skinless Chicken Breasts
  • 1 teaspoon Vegetable Oil Or As Needed To Coat Chicken
  • 6 slices Fully Cooked Bacon
  • 5 ounces, weight Mixed Salad Greens
  • 1 cup Strawberries, Sliced
  • ½  English Cucumber, Sliced
  • ½ cups Mixed Nuts And Seeds (cashews, Sliced Almonds, Pumpkin Seeds & Sunflower Seeds)
  • FOR THE DRESSING:
  • 1  Lime, Zest And Juice
  • 1 Tablespoon White Wine Vinegar
  • 1 teaspoon Dijon Mustard
  • ⅛ teaspoons Chipotle Chili Powder
  • 1 teaspoon Honey
  • 1 pinch Salt And Pepper
  • ½ cups Olive Oil

Preparation

Put the chicken breasts between two sheets of plastic wrap on a work surface. Pound the chicken breasts with a meat mallet so that they are a more uniform thickness. Lightly coat the chicken with a little vegetable oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper.

Heat a grill to medium heat. When grill is heated, put the chicken on. Cook on the grill until cooked through. Depending on the thickness of the chicken, this will take around 5 minutes per side, or until juices run clear.

Whisk together the lime juice and zest, vinegar, mustard, chipotle powder, honey, salt and pepper together in a glass bowl or measuring cup. Slowly add the olive oil while whisking constantly until the dressing is fully emulsified. You could also add everything to a mason jar and shake vigorously until mixed. Set dressing aside.

Cut the cooked chicken and bacon into bite sized pieces.

Put the salad greens into a large bowl. Toss the salad greens with half the vinaigrette (use more if you like a lot of dressing).

Plate the greens. Serve the dressed salad topped with chicken, sliced strawberries, cucumber, bacon and a sprinkling of nuts and seeds. Any extra vinaigrette, chicken and bacon can be put in the fridge for salads another day.

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Dixie Mason on 7.20.2013

Used blueberries and pecans because it was what I had. Yummy! Loved the dressing!

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