BLT Salad with Chicken
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If you love a good BLT, this loaded salad version delivers all the same flavors, with grilled chicken and cheddar cheese added to make it a satisfying meal.
If you love BLTs, this flavor-packed BLT salad is right up your alley. Along with the bacon, lettuce, and tomato, there’s grilled chicken and shredded Cheddar cheese tossed in for good measure, making it hearty enough to serve as a main course.
If you want to make everything from scratch, you can use my favorite methods for cooking bacon and grilled chicken. But honestly, this is also the kind of salad that’s perfect for shortcuts: pre-washed romaine hearts, fully cooked bacon that just needs a quick zap in the microwave, and refrigerated grilled chicken strips or rotisserie chicken all work beautifully.
The only thing I insist on making from scratch is the vinaigrette, and that only takes a few minutes. One thing to note: the recipe makes two generous dinner-sized salads, so if you’re serving more people, you’ll want to scale it up.
“This salad was so delicious! I absolutely love the vinaigrette dressing! A perfect, light salad for the summer! This will be a new staple.”
What You’ll Need To Make BLT Salad With Chicken
Step-By-Step Instructions
Step 1: Toss the lettuce. Put the lettuce in a large bowl, pour about ½ cup of the vinaigrette over it, and toss well, adding a few more tablespoons of dressing if desired after tasting.
Pro Tip: Make sure your lettuce is completely dry before adding any dressing. Even a small amount of leftover moisture on the leaves will prevent the vinaigrette from clinging properly, and leave you with a watery salad.
Step 2: Add the toppings. Add the crisp bacon, chicken, tomatoes, and cheese to the bowl, then toss gently to combine everything without crushing the ingredients.
Step 3: Serve. Serve the salad immediately with the remaining dressing on the side for everyone to add as they like.
Pro Tip: If you want a more striking presentation, skip the big bowl toss. Instead, scatter the dressed lettuce onto a flat serving platter and arrange the chicken, bacon, tomatoes, and cheese in distinct diagonal rows right on top.
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BLT Salad with Chicken
Ingredients
- 8 cups (packed) cut romaine lettuce, from two large hearts
- ½ to ¾ cup vinaigrette, to taste
- 8 slices cooked bacon
- 1 heaping cup bite-sized cooked chicken (grilled, rotisserie, leftover, or store-bought)
- 1 cup grape tomatoes, halved
- ½ cup shredded Cheddar cheese
Instructions
- Put the lettuce in a large bowl, pour about ½ cup (120 ml) of the vinaigrette onto the lettuce, and toss well. Taste and add a few more tablespoons of vinaigrette, if desired. Add the remaining ingredients and toss gently to combine. Alternatively, spread the lettuce on a large serving platter and arrange the bacon, chicken, tomatoes, and cheese in diagonal rows on top. Serve the salad with the remaining dressing on the side.
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Nutrition Information
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Gluten-Free Adaptable Note
To the best of my knowledge, all of the ingredients used in this recipe are gluten-free or widely available in gluten-free versions. There is hidden gluten in many foods; if you're following a gluten-free diet or cooking for someone with gluten allergies, always read the labels of your ingredients to verify that they are gluten-free.
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This salad was so delicious! I absolutely love the vinaigrette dressing! A perfect, light salad for the summer! This will be a new staple in the Jenn Segal recipe rotation!
This was absolutely delicious! What a great salad for the upcoming warm summer days.
Husband gave it a thumbs up which is sometimes hard to get. Loved the vinaigrette too!
Definitely a keeper!
This was so good! I did make a bit of an alteration using a local baby salad greens mix rather than romaine. I also used honey mustard instead of both honey and mustard in the salad dressing. With a lovely sourdough from a local bakery, it was a perfect dinner for my husband and I.
Wow great salad! The dressing was not too sweet nor too acidic. Definitely a keeper.
This recipe was a big hit. We made Jen’s salad dressing and grilled chicken from the links in the recipe. All were excellent.
This was SO good! It’s going into our regular rotation for sure. The vinaigrette came out well; I appreciated the detailed instructions.
Simple, but delicious salad. We used thick-out bacon and followed the recipe exactly. The vinaigrette will definitely become a staple in our house—I would have gone with olive oil, but the recommendation for a neutral oil was spot on, as was the technique. Yet another great OUAC recipe.
Hi Jen,
I love your site and your recipes, first found you when looking for a Peruvian chicken recipe and fell in love with that one with the green sauce, omg, my friends love the sauce. I really enjoyed this salad and the vinaigrette, I too, added a little more honey to the dressing. Thank you for the recipes, they’re awesome!!
I just made this for Saturday night dinner and my wife and I both loved. I have to be honest though I changed the recipe just a little. I have a pretty strict rule not to change a recipe the first time but when I told my wife the ingredients she asked where the Mayo was added ( she loves blt’s with Mayo. I Actually had already made the dressing but decided to used Ms Segal’s fantastic Caesar dressing which I have been using for years. Was wonderful. Please keep up the good work.
We were going to have a chicken caesar salad for dinner last night but decided to try this instead. Delicious! It will be added to our favourite (particularly for summer) salad dinners.
This is a keeper. Our home version of BLT is sometimes referred to as a California BLT. Adding avocado and fried egg. For the salad sliced or diced avocado and halved hard boiled eggs (don’t toss) works well.