Why This 10 Minute Taco Chicken Salad Is The Best

Mireille · 08/12/2018 at 3:20 am

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This recipe will show you why this 10-minute taco chicken salad is the best. Are you ready to learn how to make this taco chicken salad? Let’s get started!

What You Need For This Recipe

To make this low-carb salad you need the following ingredients:

Chicken breast
Pam cooking spray
Taco seasoning
Lettuce
Plum tomatoes
Red onion
Pickle
Avocado

To let this salad taste even better use this lemon mustard dressing and give this salad a great bite.

You need the following ingredients for this dressing:

Olive oil
Mustard
Mayonnaise or yogurt
Lemon juice
Salt and pepper

Note that the full ingredients list, including measurements, can be found in the recipe card below.

How To Make Taco Chicken Salad

The star of this is the taco chicken and the salad. To make taco chicken is really easy. Take a chicken breast and spray it with cooking spray.
Rub the spray on the chicken. If you like olive oil better feel free to rub some olive oil on the chicken breast.
Then sprinkle the taco seasoning on the chicken breast. I use this homemade taco seasoning recipe which is made in under a minute and so flavorful.
Give it a try you will love it, promise. Now preheat a skillet and add some cooking spray.
Bake your taco chicken breast for about 5 to 7 minutes and turn regularly on medium heat. Then set it aside and let it rest.

Make The Dressing

While the chicken breast is in the skillet you can make the dressing. This is the 30-second salad dressing it is so fast that it is done in no time.
It is also sugar-free and with the lemon a little sour. So how do you make this dressing?
Put olive oil in a bowl and add mustard, mayonnaise, and lemon juice. Stir well with a spoon before you add salt and pepper to taste.

Build Your Salad

Start with the lettuce and put it in a big bowl. I use a lettuce mix but you can also use iceberg lettuce as the base.
Then drizzle half of the dressing on the lettuce. Dice the pickle into small cubes and distribute it on the lettuce. Finely slice the red onion and put on the salad.
Now it is time to cut the plum tomatoes in four and put them on top of the lettuce. Slice the avocado into thin slices and put them on top of the salad.
Finally cut the taco chicken into thin slices as well and put it on top of the salad as well. Drizzle the remaining dressing on the salad and you are ready to serve this taco chicken salad.

Taco Chicken In The Oven

You can make the taco chicken with a skillet but you can also put the chicken in the oven. This will take double the cooking time. You have to preheat the oven to 450℉/225℃ cut the chicken breast in half, then prepare the chicken the same way as mentioned below.

Bake for 20 minutes and you are good to go. Make sure you cut the chicken breast in half that way it will cook even faster. Chicken is one of the fastest meats you can cook, fry, or bake and this recipe is proof of that.

More Salad Ingredient Options

Want to change it up and add more ingredients to the salad? Here are several options that you can add:

Eggs – a hard-boiled egg is a great addition to your salad
Mushrooms – pan-fried mushrooms either sliced or halved a great addition to your salad
Bacon – on a Keto diet you can eat bacon so oven-baked bacon is a great ingredient for your salad
Bell pepper – you can use bell peppers raw or cooked both are a great addition to your salad
Cashew nuts – nuts are the ideal addition to a salad and cashew nuts are great to add. However, you can also use walnuts or pistachio nuts

Easy Salad Recipe

If you have visited the Tortilla channel before you know how much I love salads and that I eat them at least three to four times a week.

Salads are so easy to make with lots of nutrition. You might say that salads are boring, but in this post, I will show you that the opposite is true.

Take a look further down this post to see even more delicious salad recipes. So why is this recipe the best you might ask? Well, this taco chicken salad is the best because it is a great combination of:

a super protein source
lean ingredients
low carbs
made with the best homemade taco seasoning you ever tried
easy to make

The result of this recipe depends for the most part on your taco seasoning. That is why I advise you to make it yourself that way you control the taste.

Homemade taco seasoning tastes way better than anything in a package, so give it a try. You can eat this salad for lunch but it is big enough to eat for dinner as well.

More Salad Recipes

As I mentioned above there are a lot of salad recipes on the Tortilla Channel. If you enjoyed this recipe then I’m sure you will love these salads as well:

Low carb tuna salad – Looking for more low-carb salad recipes try this tuna salad
Amazing majestic Caesar salad – the classic amongst salads this Caesar salad with tortilla
Avocado tomato salad – super easy salad with a bite
Peanut salsa summer salad – a Mexican salad with peanut salsa
Taco salad – a colorful salad with ground chicken and full of flavors and taste

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Taco Chicken Salad

Mireille

Serves: 2 Prep Time: 3 minutes Cooking Time: 5-7 minutes

Taco chicken salad is a great low-carb salad recipe with taco seasoning for chicken. Fits perfectly in a keto diet. Done in 10 minutes.

Ingredients

1 bag of mixed salad
100-gram chicken breast
½ avocado
½ red onion sliced
4 plum cherry tomatoes cut in quarters
1 pickle diced
Dressing:
1 tablespoon oil
1 tablespoon lemon
1 tablespoon mustard
1 tablespoon mayonnaise

Instructions

Rub cooking spray on the chicken. Then sprinkle the taco seasoning on the chicken breast
Pre heat a skillet and add some cooking spray. Bake your taco chicken breast for about 5 to 7 minutes and turn regularly on medium heat. Then set aside and let it rest
For the dressing put olive oil in a bowl and add mustard, mayonaise and lemon juice. Stir well with a spoon before you add salt and pepper to taste
Build salad and start with the lettuce and put it in a big bowl. Drizzle half of the dressing on the lettuce. Add the diced pickle
Put the plum tomatoes, red onion and sliced avocado on top of the lettuce
Finally cut the taco chicken in thin slices as well and put it on top the salad as well
Drizzle the remaining dressing on the salad and you are ready to serve this taco chicken salad

Why This 10 Minute Taco Chicken Salad Is The Best

What You Need For This Recipe