Avocado Chicken Salad

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This avocado chicken salad recipe has a perfect balance of flavors that makes it a great meal for a hot summer day and for a cozy winter luncheon.

Avocado chicken salad recipe is one of my favorite new recipes. It is fast, easy, delicious, and can be made even easier with my chicken shortcut I share below.

It also can use up leftovers you already have. Have extra chopped tomatoes from taco night? Use them here!

Leftover chicken breast? Next time, plan to save it for this easy salad.

And this chicken avocado salad keto friendly recipe is also healthy. So whether you need a different way to feed your keto friends, or just need a new vegetable side, this is for you.

With its creamy chunks of avocado and delicious marinated chicken, you are sure to love this simple chicken avocado tomato salad!

What ingredients are in Avocado Chicken Salad Recipe?

• Extra-Virgin Olive Oil: this is the base of the cilantro lime vinaigrette dressing
• Fresh Lime Juice: fresh juice adds the best flavors to this chicken salad with avocado
• Fresh Cilantro: you want finely chopped cilantro to mix into the dressing
• Salt: this balances the flavors in the homemade dressing
• Romaine Lettuce: chopped into bite sized pieces
• Cherry Tomatoes: cut these in half or quarter them if you have extra large tomatoes
• Cucumber: slice these and quarter them so you get nice bite sized pieces
• Cooked Chicken Breast: use shredded or cubed; I like mine cold so I usually use leftover chicken, but warm chicken pieces in a cold salad is nice too
• Avocado: this dice should match the other vegetables so you can get a nice variety in one bite.
• Ground Black Pepper: you can use a lot or a little depending on your taste, but be sure to include some because pepper will help you absorb the nutrients from the other foods in this dish

Pro Tip: Instead of cooking your own, use a Rotisserie Chicken! That is a great way to make this rotisserie chicken avocado salad an easy lunch, especially if you are serving a crowd!

How to make Avocado Chicken Salad Recipe:

1. Combine olive oil, lime juice, cilantro and salt in a small bowl.
2. Add cooked chicken to vinaigrette, mix well, then set aside to marinate.
3. Layer lettuce, tomatoes & cucumber in a large bowl or individual dishes.
4. Top with marinated chicken and avocado.
5. Sprinkle with fresh ground pepper.
6. Drizzle extra vinaigrette dressing over the surface of the salad and enjoy!

How to keep Avocado Chicken Salad Recipe from turning brown:

The ingredient in avocado chicken salad recipe that is most likely to turn brown is the avocado. Avocados turn brown when they mix with the oxygen in the air.

So to stop that, you need fresh ripe avocados that aren’t brown when you cut them open, and then you need to layer them with an acid. The homemade dressing with fresh lime juice will coat them to keep them from turning brown.

But if you won’t be putting the avocado on the salad right away, you need to put fresh lime juice on the slices and cover them with plastic wrap so they don’t get exposed to air as long.

Is Avocado Chicken Salad Recipe healthy?

Yes this healthy avocado chicken salad recipe is great whether you are on a low carb, keto, gluten free, or even just a lot of veggies meal plan! It is loaded with vegetables, antioxidants, healthy fats, great proteins, and has no added sugars.

This salad is one of those quick meals that is a great option to rotate into your healthy lifestyle, whatever that looks like for you.

What side to have with Avocado Chicken Salad Recipe:

Sometimes I like to serve avocado chicken salad recipe as an easy light lunch entree because it’s a complete meal by itself. But when I want a great salad side dish, here’s what I like to have with it:

• Bread: sandwich bread, lettuce wraps, or try this easy focaccia bread for another simple side dish treat
• Soup: an easy corn chowder or tomato bisque would go perfectly next to this salad
• Vegetables: in the summer try something fresh like this grilled zucchini recipe or these roasted winter vegetables I even love this salad next to roasted butternut squash halves

How to cut avocado for salad:

To cut the avocado for this avocado chicken salad recipe, you first want to cut it in half. Then pop out the seed, and scoop the half onto a cutting board.

There you can slice the creamy avocado into a grid up and down and side to side using your kitchen knife.

How to store leftover Avocado Chicken Salad Recipe:

Leftover avocado chicken salad recipe will not last very long if it is assembled and dressed.

If you are planning to keep this salad to eat the next day, you need to keep the fresh veggies separate from the marinated chicken, and the avocado separate from the crisp lettuce leaves.

You can do this by storing them in separate containers.

Or you can store them in mason jars by layering the dressing and marinated chicken and avocado salad on the bottom of the jar.

Then moving up with wet foods like sliced cherry tomatoes, then cucumber, with the crisp veggies at the top with the lettuce at the very top.

When you are ready to eat, shake the ingredients out onto a plate and you have an individual healthy chicken salad in less than a minute.

Layering in a mason jar or leftover sauce jar is my favorite way to bring salads like this chicken cucumber avocado salad on the go.

Can you freeze Avocado Chicken Salad Recipe?

No you cannot freeze avocado chicken salad recipe after you have mixed it all together.

You can freeze the homemade cilantro lime vinaigrette dressing and the cooked chicken in an airtight container for up to three months.

You can save them separately or marinate them together in a freezer safe container. The salad dressing may separate when you thaw it, so just be sure to mix it again once it is no longer frozen.

The rest of the salad has so much water that the frozen water crystals inside the lettuce, avocado, tomato, and cucumber will completely change the texture and flavor of the raw veggies.

It will leave you with limp, sad thawed vegetables.

More Salads You’ll Love…

• Blueberry Jello Salad
• Lemon Jello Salad
• Strawberry Pretzel Salad Recipe
• Roasted Butternut Squash Salad
• Orange Fluff Salad Recipe
• Shaved Brussels Sprout Salad
• Best Greek Salad
• Broccoli Salad with Bacon
• Lentil Salad with Tahini Dressing

This avocado chicken salad recipe is a delicious salad with so much flavor it is sure to become one of your favorite recipes.

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