Barbecue Chicken Salad with Creamy Avocado Garlic Dressing
Ahhhhh….darlings, it’s so hot that La Diva has not been cooking hardly anything at all! In sticking with my goal of easy summer salads as main meals, here’s a great recipe for a salad that everyone will love! Spicy barbecue chicken salad with a cool ‘n’ creamy avocado dressing…..mmmmmm…….
Barbecue Chicken Salad with Creamy Avocado Garlic Dressing
Tangy, spicy barbecue chicken and crisp vegetables sit atop a bed of greens and summer vegetables and drizzled with a decadent avocado garlic dressing. Cool, quick and delicious for hot summer nights!
Salad Fixin's
- 2 chicken breasts (skinless, boneless)
- 2 tbsp La Diva's barbecue rub
- 1 tbsp oil
- 1/4 cup barbecue sauce (your favorite store bought or home made)
- 1/2 ear corn on cob (cooked and shucked)
- 1/2 jicama, small (peeled and julienned)
- 1/2 red pepper (sliced into strips)
- 1/4 red onion (sliced thin)
- 1/2 carrot (peeled and shredded)
- 8 grape tomatoes (sliced in half)
- 1 celery stalk (sliced thin)
- 4 cups salad greens (washed)
Creamy Avocado Garlic Dressing
- 1/4 ripe avocado
- 2 tbsp milk
- 1 garlic clove
- 1 tbsp mayonnaise
- 1 tbsp plain Greek yogurt
- 1 tbsp olive oil or safflower oil (Any mild tasting oil is fine)
- 1 tbsp fresh lime juice
- salt and pepper to taste
Barbecue Chicken
Heat grill
Rub chicken with spice rub and oil
Prepare salad plates
Add salad greens to two dinner plates
Layer all the vegetables onto the greens except for the tomatoes and corn
Cook chicken and baste with barbecue sauce
Let chicken cool slightly while you make the dressing
Cut chicken into slices
Splay the chicken slices over the salad
Creamy Avocado Garlic Dressing
In a food processor or in a deep jug with an immersion blender, add garlic and chop
Blend until smooth
Add all the other dressing ingredients and blend until smooth
Add salt and pepper to taste
Thin dressing with milk a teaspoon at a time as needed
Dress salad and top with corn and tomatoes
Serve immediately.
Result: Wow! One of La Diva’s fave salads! The bbq chicken is slightly spicy and sweet and works great with the crunchy jicama and celery. The corn adds another texture and enhances the Southern-style flavor profile. The creamy coolness of the dressing is divine! Gotta go, the beach is callin’!!!!
Originally posted 2009-07-18 18:55:00.
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Looks wonderful and I’m starving as usual…but I’m also ridiculously lazy. So I’ll just enjoy vicariously!
That recipe and those marvelous images have moved me to prepare a taste, enen in this energy sapping summer heat.
Thank you Diva!
Burton Dale
Our beach isn’t as lively in colors, but I can live vicariously through this post and only hope that my version will conjure up similar colors and tastes. Love the pictures and the recipe. Thanks!
Outstanding. Love your attention to flavor-blending and texture.
You think that dressing would go good with spicy Italian beef sandwiches?
Gator’s instinct: CHOMP!
Jackelope’s instincts say: RUN!
Deb’s first response: LIE!
I love jicama. I would imagine that you’ve been getting quite a bit of use from your pool floats because it’s HOT baby.
Thanks everyone, I appreciate the comments!
Troll, I think the dressing would be divine for Italian beef cuz the flavor of the avocado is pretty mild but there’s a nice hit of garlic to it! The dressing would certainly cool any spice!
Sham, I think jicama is totally under-used and under-rated!
Haiku: who’s Deb?!
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of finalists down to three.
Deb is plump Asian.
Ahhh, just goes to show you how much I pay attention! haha!
Is she honest or not?! I don’t think she forgot the capers for one minute!
Made the dressing and it was a big hit with Italian Beef sandwiches. Also Italian Sausage sandwiches.
Used lemon and less garlic but basically the same.
Excellent! I’m so happy to hear that! Thanks for the feedback.
Yummy! This sounds great! I’m gonna have to try the jicama. I’ve heard it grows well for us here in Florida.
Excellent. I’m putting Donna on this task, if she’ll DO IT at this point, lol !
Haha! I doubt it! Me thinks that a candelit dinner somewhere cozy and expensive might be in order for your Sat. night and pronto!