Loaded Chicken Taco Salad Recipe
This delicious, nutritious chicken taco salad — inspired by Averie Cooks — boasts a bounty of spicy chicken, lettuce, tomatoes, sweet corn, black beans, avocado, two cheeses and crispy corn tortilla chips tossed in a homemade creamy lime-cilantro dressing. Delicioso!
When the last thing you want to do is cook a hot meal in your kitchen, salads are the simple answer. Cold salads can sometimes leave diners famished because they lack protein or satisfying flavors. The solution: Quickly cook well-seasoned chicken or another meaty protein on the stovetop and add it to a colorful, flavorful salad.
Gourmet grill note: You can just as easily spice up chicken with taco seasoning and cook it on the grill. Worried about MSG in packets of taco seasoning? Try Pod & Bean’s Mexican Seasoning Blend. (This isn’t an ad — it’s just one we like.) Featuring dried chilies, onion, garlic, cocoa and salt, this spice blend goes really well with chicken.
The best salad dressings are made in your kitchen, where you can use fresh ingredients and adjust the flavors to finesse your dish. For this loaded chicken taco salad, simply whisk together mayonnaise, sour cream, lime juice, cilantro and a bit of sugar until blended. The creaminess of this taco salad dressing complements the fresh flavors and varying textures of the other salad ingredients.
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Food City Kitchen with Chef Walter and Jan Charles - Simple Layered Chicken Taco Salad
This simple taco salad recipe is simple, fast and easy - but never short on flavor. In this chicken taco salad, grilled chicken is tossed with bright seasonings and is layered in with your favorite taco salad components - fresh tomatoes, onions, sour cream, avocado and crisp lettuce. Serve it in layers for a beautiful look - with very little work! This simple layered chicken taco salad will become a new favorite in no time!
Walter: . . . All right, Jan. You all remember, Jan Charles. Jan, you've got a bunch of good-looking stuff here.
Jan: Yep.
Walter: Tell us about it.
Jan: What we're going to do today is a really simple chicken-layered taco salad.
Walter: OK.
Jan: OK. So over here . . .
Walter: It's chicken.
Jan: It's chicken. I just threw it on the grill. Threw it on the grill, that's it. Cubed it up. Now I did . . .
Walter: And you seasoned it with what?
Jan: Just a little bit of chili powder or taco seasoning. You can use either one, whichever one you like. When I do this, I like to . . .
Walter: I like whichever one that is.
Jan: What I did was taco seasoning.
Walter: Good.
Jan: OK. So then I have, and I actually layered some on the bottom right here.
Walter: Mm-hmm.
Jan: We've got a can of black beans, and I just used about a quarter of a bell pepper . . .
Walter: Mm-hmm.
Jan: . . . and about half of an onion and I simmered that. Then another little bit of taco seasoning in that.
Walter: OK.
Jan: So that's our second layer. Now, the reason I love this so much is I'll set up these individual ingredients in my refrigerator, and I'll let the kids just pick all these fresh vegetables and this lean protein. I love seeing that.
Walter: Yeah.
Jan: So, cheese.
Walter: Cheese.
Jan: Cheese.
Walter: Got to have cheese.
Jan: Much as you like. You can use whatever you like. If you want to use the Pepper Jack . . .
Walter: Mm-hmm.
Jan: . . . or you want to use Monterey Jack, or whatever. Now I'm not going to make this one real fussy.
Walter: No.
Jan: I made that one fussy, but I'm not going to make this one fussy.
Walter: Well, we're going to get to that one in a minute. We're not going to let them see that one yet.
Jan: Right.
Walter: We want to dazzle them with that one.
Jan: So what do we want to do next? Normally, I would do sour cream, but that's going to take a few minutes.
Walter: Yeah.
Jan: So lots of iceberg lettuce and, if you want to use something else, Romaine is really good.
Walter: Mm-hmm.
Jan: It's a little darker. It's leafy greens. Very good for you.
Walter: And then has a much higher NuVal score than iceberg . . .
Jan: Right.
Walter: . . . which has the lowest NuVal score of anything in the produce department.
Jan: Leave it to me to bring that one.
Walter: I just throw that in.
Jan: [laughs].
Walter: No, I appreciate you doing it. That way I can talk about NuVal a little . . .
Jan: That's right.
Walter: . . . because I really do believe in it a lot.
Jan: Well, can I make it up with these fresh tomatoes?
Walter: You can make it up. Fresh tomatoes will fix almost anything.
Jan: I agree. I agree.
Walter: I absolutely love them.
Jan: And this is one of my favorite things on the planet. I love green onions. Scallions, if you want to call them that.
Walter: Yeah.
Jan: Of course, I grew up with them. Spring onions is what they were called here. And there you go. That's all there is to it.
Walter: All right. Now let's take a look at the centerpiece.
Jan: OK. [laughs]
Walter: Because today the finished product is a centerpiece because I looked at that and said, that's so pretty, Jan. Let's make that the centerpiece and there it is.
Jan: You know I don't make fussy food.
Walter: Yeah.
Jan: That's as fussy as I get, and it took me about five minutes to throw that together.
Walter: All right. I'm in favor of that.
Jan: Yup. [laughs]
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