Buffalo Chicken Chopped Salad
User Reviews
5
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Prep Time
20 mins
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Cook Time
15 mins
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Total Time
35 mins
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Servings
4 people
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Course
Main Course, Salad
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Cuisine
American
Buffalo Chicken Chopped Salad
Description
The Buffalo Chicken Chopped Salad centers on grilled chicken breasts seasoned with salt, pepper, garlic powder, and buffalo wing sauce. Grilling the chicken provides a seared, juicy texture, and resting helps preserve moisture. The vegetables—carrots, celery, cucumber, green onions, and romaine hearts—are chopped uniformly for easy tossing and eating. Garnishing with blue cheese, cilantro, and chives adds herbaceous notes and a creamy, pungent contrast. The salad's combination of crunchy vegetables, tender chicken, and bold buffalo flavor creates a satisfying balance.
Serving this salad with ranch dressing complements the spiciness from the buffalo sauce. It can be a standalone meal or paired with simple sides. The salad’s chopped format makes it convenient to prepare and eat, ideal for using grilled chicken leftovers or assembling fresh for lunch or dinner.
Ingredients
- 1 pound boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- salt kosher salt
- black pepper kosher salt
- garlic powder
- buffalo wing sauce we like frank’s red hot wing sauce
- 4 carrot peeled and chopped
- 4 celery chopped, stalks
- 1 cucumber peeled and chopped, seedless
- 8 to 10 cups romaine hearts chopped
- 4 green onion thinly sliced
- ½ cup blue cheese crumbled
- ½ cup cilantro chopped
- ¼ cup chives chopped
- ranch dressing for serving
Instructions
- Preheat your grill to the highest setting. I like to grill this chicken but you can cook it however you prefer.
- Season the chicken all over with the salt, pepper and garlic powder. Drizzle a little wing sauce on it too.
- Grill the chicken for 5 to 6 minutes a side, until cooked through and the internal temperature reaches 165 degrees F. I highly suggest using a meat thermometer because the time will depend on the size of your chicken breasts and the heat of your grill.
- Once the chicken is grilled, let it rest while you chop the other ingredients.
- Chop the carrots, celery, cucumbers and green onions. Chop the romaine lettuce and place it in a large bowl. I like to chop everything in pieces that are evenly sized - or at least as close as I can get them. Chop the cilantro and chives too. Combine it all in a bowl with the lettuce. Season with a pinch of salt and pepper and toss.
- Slice or chop the chicken (whatever size you prefer) and toss it with a few tablespoons of the wing sauce. Add the chicken into the bowl with the salad.
- Drizzle the entire thing with ranch dressing and more wing sauce if you’d like. Serve!
User Reviews
Overall Rating
5
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