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Buffalo Chicken Chopped Salad {Portion Fix/21 Day Fix}

March 2, 2021 by Grandnanny 1 Comment

I love a good salad. I could eat a different one every day!! That is why I wanted to create a new one to add to my rotation. This Buffalo Chicken Chopped Salad is perfect, so full of fiery flavor and topped with a tangy bleu cheese dressing that goes perfectly with it.

Buffalo Chicken Chopped Salad

What salad ingredients are going into this Buffalo Chicken Chopped Salad?

A basic salad of your favorite ingredients would do. With lettuce as my base, I like to line my ingredients up “Cobb salad” style but will give everything a big stir when I get ready to eat it.

Veggies for buffalo chicken chopped salad

Some of my favorite veggies fit perfectly in this salad. Celery because I like eating it with Buffalo flavors. Green onion for the fresh bite, and tomato wedges. Because I try to limit my dairy, I like to squeeze them like you would a lemon wedge for the “dampness” that adds to my bleu cheese dressing.

The amounts of each can be totally up to how many containers you want to eat. I usually have a 1 Cup/ 1 Green container of lettuce and 1/3 cup of each of the other veggies.

What dressing is good with this chopped salad?

A simple bleu cheese dressing is all that is needed for this salad. You can find an approved store-bought version, There is some advice on how to find one HERE.

I make a simple version with only bleu cheese and almond milk that makes about 3/4 of a cup. You could use 1/2 of the dressing recipe for 1B but that is too much for me, so I use 1/4 of the recipe for 1/2 Blue.

The recipe is in this post includes Buffalo Cauliflower Bites too.

I know that some people don’t care for bleu cheese dressing, if you are one of those then you might enjoy using this mayo-based ranch dressing instead.

cornflake crusted chicken tenders

I have also used guacamole as a dressing because I limit how much cheese I consume. Here is a great little dressing recipe that uses a little single-serve guacamole.

Honey Lime Chicken Bowl

Honey Lime Chicken Bowl

Making the chicken for Buffalo Chicken Chopped Salad

Starting with my favorite chicken tenders I cut them into chunks the size I want. That way the butter and hot sauce will coat each little piece of chicken. Just cooking a large tender and then cutting it up means the inside edges don’t have and seasoning on them.

I used 2 teaspoons of butter and 3 teaspoons of Frank’s Red Hot Sauce as a marinade for 2 servings. You can adjust the sauce to taste but you need a little fat on the chicken to help keep it from drying out. I spoon any extra sauce left in the bowl over the pieces after I place them on my olive oil sprayed Nuwave Oven rack. You could totally do these in the oven too. If you do I would cook them on a rack over a pan or the bottom of the chicken will be a little damp. When I am in the mood for some extra “kick” I toss my cooked chicken in a little more hot sauce and if I have the teaspoons to spare I might add a little butter too.

Buffalo Chicken Chopped Salad {21 Day Fix}

This Buffalo Chicken Chopped Salad is full of fiery flavor! It is topped with a tangy bleu cheese dressing that goes perfectly with it.
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Prep Time 20 mins
Cook Time 12 mins
Total Time 32 mins
Course Main Course, Salad
Cuisine American
Servings 2

Ingredients
  

Salad

  • 2 cups lettuce of your choice, chopped- DIVIDE between 2 plates
  • 2 cups mixed veggies of your choice- 2/3 cup each of celery, green onions, and tomatoes pictured- divided and placed on the lettuce.

Chicken

  • 4 average chicken tenders or 2 average sized breasts, chopped into chunks
  • 2 teaspoons butter, melted
  • 3 teaspoons hot sauce

Dressing

  • Dressing of your choice, **see notes below

Instructions
 

Salad

  • Chop all salad ingredients. Arrange in 2 bowls.

Chicken

  • Add all 3 ingredients to a bowl and let marinate while your oven/air fryer is preheating.
  • Spray oven rack (over a pan) or air fryer rack with olive oil spray and add chicken pieces. Spoon any marinade over the chicken pieces and bake for 12-15 minutes or until done.
  • Place ½ of the chicken over each salad. Add dressing of your choice.

21 Day Fix/ Ultimate Portion Fix Container Counts per 1 salad: 2G, 1R, 1 oil teaspoon ... plus the dressing of your choice. ***See note below.

    Notes

    **** DRESSINGS:
    Bleu cheese dressing link HERE. The recipe makes 1B per serving, I use 1/4 of a B on my salads.
    Mayo-based Ranch Dressing recipe HERE. Serving is 1 Orange container. 
    cornflake crusted chicken tenders
     
     
    Keyword Healthy, Ultimate Portion Fix/21 Day Fix

    What can you serve with this salad?

    When I make a salad this size I almost always make it a 1 dish meal, so there are no side dishes needed.

    Most of the time that will leave me room for something like dessert. Because the salad is spicy I like to cool my tongue off with something creamy and cold.

    These ice cream bon-bons really hit that spot!! The recipe is HERE. I add in some custom flavors sometimes. Caramel extract and coarse sea salt ones are fantastic. I have also made them with almond extract and chopped almonds!!

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