This chopped salad recipe is loaded with juicy chicken, crispy bacon, hard-boiled eggs, avocado, and fresh greens, all tossed in a zesty lemon dressing. Perfect for meal prep or a hearty, refreshing lunch everyone will love!
Ingredients
2chicken breasts
1tbspgarlic, salt & pepper seasoning
1lbbacon
5hard-boiled eggs
5ozpower green lettuce mix
1English cucumber
10ozcherry tomatoes
2avocados
6tbspmicro greens
Lemon Dressing
1lemonjuiced and zested
1/4tspminced garlic
1tspdijon mustard
1/2tspfine sea salt
1/4tspground pepper
2tbspmaple syrup
1/4cupolive oil
1/2tspdried thyme
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Instructions
Start by cooking your chicken and bacon. Set your oven to 450 degrees F. Line a cookie sheet with aluminum foil, and place the bacon on the pan. Single layer.
Grab a 9x13 deep baking dish, cover the chicken breast in a salt, pepper, and garlic seasoning (your choice). Place the chicken in the pan, cover the pan with foil. Place both the bacon and chicken in the oven and bake for 30 minutes.
While the bacon and chicken bake, boil your eggs. Place a saucepan filled with water on the stove. Add the eggs to the water and place over high heat. Allow it to reach a boil and boil the eggs for 10 minutes.
While the eggs boil, prepare, wash, and chop the veggies. Wash the power greens, place them in a salad bowl.
Wash, peel and chop the English cucumber, add to the salad bowl.
Wash and chop the cherry tomatoes, add to the bowl.
When the chicken and bacon are done, remove from the oven and allow to cool for 10 minutes.
When the eggs are done, carefully pour out the hot water into the sink and fill the pan with cold water, allowing it to overflow in the sink until the eggs are chilling in very cold water.
Chop up the chicken and bacon, and add them to the salad bowl.
Peel and cut up the eggs, and add them to the salad bowl.
Lastly, chop the avocado and add it to the bowl, and then top with the power greens.
Lemon Dressing
Add all the ingredients into a small mixing bowl: lemon juice and zest, minced garlic, dijon mustard, fine sea salt, ground pepper, maple syrup, olive oil and dried thyme. Whisk until smooth. Drizzle the dressing on the salad. Toss and serve.
Notes
TIP: If meal prepping for lunches, keep each ingredient separate in airtight containers and assemble a small salad each day.