BBQ Chicken Salad
This BBQ chicken salad is better than any restaurant! Flavorful BBQ chicken, carrots, toasted corn, avocado, green onions, croutons and more combine to make the best barbecue chicken salad ever!
- Prep time
- 10 min
- Cook time
- 15 min
- Yield
- 8 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 2 Pounds BBQ Chicken* ((cooked))
- 5 oz spring mix (or romaine lettuce)
- 1 large carrot (shredded)
- 4 green onions (sliced thin)
- 1 cucumber (peeled and diced)
- ¼ cup cilantro
- 1 avocado (diced)
- 1 cup croutons
- 1 ½ cups corn (frozen or fresh cut off the cob.)
- 1 Tablespoon salted butter
- ¼ teaspoon sea salt
Instructions
- 1
Make the BBQ chicken - use this grilled BBQ chicken recipe (note, the chicken needs to marinade) or this Crock Pot BBQ Chicken recipe.
- 2
Cook corn with 1 Tablespoon butter over medium-high heat until lightly browned.
- 3
Once browned, sprinkle with sea salt.
- 4
Set aside to use on the salad.
- 5
Combine lettuce, carrot, green onions cucumber, and cilantro and toasted corn in a large salad bowl, reserving about 1 TBS of each ingredient to use to garnish the top, toss to combine.
- 6
Toss the dressing of your choice like avocado dressing or ranch dressing.
- 7
Top with remaining ingredients and sliced or shredded BBQ chicken.**