Tex Mex Chicken Salad with Honey Lime Dressing

For me, when life gets busy, there's nothing more refreshing or delicious than a fully loaded salad. And the nice thing about salad for dinner is that it can almost be entirely prepped ahead so that all you have to do when you get home from work, or from looking after your family, is dump ingredients into a bowl.

My Tex Mex salad is loaded with healthy ingredients like avocado, peppers, niblets corn, chicken, shrimp, crunchy tortilla strips, and a honey like salad dressing that's worth the entire price of admission!

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Tex Mex Chicken Salad with Honey Lime Dressing

Ingredients

• 1 large whole wheat tortilla
• 4 cups chopped salad greens
• 1 cup cooked, shredded chicken breast seasoned with 1/2 tsp of creole seasoning
• 1/2 cup cooked shrimp
• 1 cup niblets corn
• 1/2 cup diced red pepper
• 1 large avocado, peeled and cubed
• 1/2 cup purple onion, diced
• 2 tomatoes, chopped

Honey Lime Dressing Ingredients

• 2 tbsp sour cream
• 1 tbsp mayonnaise
• 1 tbsp lime juice
• 1/2 teaspoon creole seasoning 
• 1/8 cup finely chopped cilantro or Italian parsley
• 1 tbsp honey

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Mist both sides of the whole wheat tortilla with extra virgin olive oil or cooking spray. Cut in half, turn sideways, then cut into thin strips. Spread the strips in a single layer on baking sheets and season with salt. Bake for 12-15 minutes, rotating the baking sheets once, until crispy. 
2. Mix the salad ingredients together in a large bowl.
3. Whisk the dressing ingredients together. 
4. Toss everything along with the tortilla strips together and serve.

Author:

Lyndsay Wells is a professional trainer, writer, and program developer with a passion for food and cooking. She is an award winning recipe developer, a former website ambassador for Kraft Foods Canada, the $20,000.00 winner of the online competition "The Real Women of Philadelphia" and a finalist on the Food Network Canada show Recipe to Riches. Lyndsay believes cooking should be approachable and easy and has great tips and ideas for putting together sophisticated looking dishes that cooks of all levels can accomplish.