This smoked chicken salad is my personal favourite. It is easy to assemble, and makes use of any smoked chicken leftovers that you might have. In fact, even if you don’t have any smoked chicken or BBQ chicken leftovers, you can make this with store bought rotisserie birds, or poach a breast or two and use that.

While this salad would be great made in a large quantity for a ladies luncheon (we had quite a few orders for this at our restaurant for bridge clubs) it is hearty enough that one of our customers nicknamed it the “man salad.”
so this pile of greens has it all. The recipe below is directly scalable. Feel free to substitute ingredients. However, the lettuce you use should be somewhat “sturdy” like the romaine used below, and NEVER, NEVER use wet lettuce!

Recipe: Smoked chicken salad

Ingredients for each meal sized salad portion:

140g romaine lettuce cut
1/4 cup bacon bits
1/4 cup diced tomatoes
1/4 avocado, cut into chunks
1/4 cup black beans, black eyed peas, or other bean
110g smoked chicken cut into cubes
BBQ sauce
60g ranch dressing
Tortilla stings

Make tortilla strings by cutting corn tortillas into as thin strips as you can. fry in a saute pan in oil until crisp. Can be made ahead and stored in an airtight container.  **note you can substitute crumbled tortilla chips for the strings, but the result will not be nearly as good.

Assembly:

Toss chicken with BBQ sauce until very moistened and loose. This sauce will serve to mix with the ranch dressing so yo need a bit extra.

Warm the chicken mixture.

Toss all of the ingredients except the chicken and strings. Put on a chilled plate. Top with chicken mixture. Make a “nest” of strings on top.

Enjoy.

Duke Diercks
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