Our Chicken salad recipe is made with perfectly grilled chicken, vegetables, blueberries, apple, gorgonzola, bacon, slivered almonds and a homemade creamy honey mustard dressing.
Grilled chicken salad with flavor
If you want protein and veggies in one meal, then this Grilled Chicken Salad is for you.
Made with juicy grilled chicken breasts, sweet blueberries, salty bacon, and a homemade honey mustard vinaigrette, this will be your go-to chicken salad from now on!
Why you will love it!
If these photos don’t immediately convince you that you need to make this Grilled Chicken Salad recipe, here are a few more reasons to!
- High protein content: 42g of protein per serving makes this salad a great, healthy lunch or dinner!
- Fresh: Packed full of fresh fruit and veg, this salad really doesn’t get any better than this.
- Healthy Fats: Our homemade honey mustard dressing is made with full-fat Greek yogurt and the slivered almonds add a nice touch too.
- Balanced: You’ve got your protein, healthy fats, fruits and veggies in one meal! YES!
What’s in this Grilled Chicken Salad?
- salad vegetables: The great thing about most FFF salads is that you can choose whatever green you like best. We chose spring salad, but field greens, spinach, or arugula are great options.
- Grilled Chicken: You will need about 1 pound of grilled chicken or 2 large chicken breasts. You can also use grilled chicken thighs.
- Gorgonzola cheese: Gorgonzola adds such great flavor to this salad! Not a big fan? Try blue, goat or even white cheddar.
- apples: Apples add crunch and a sweet flavor that really complements the rest of the savory flavors.
- Blueberries: I love adding blueberries to salads because they’re not too sweet but still add so much flavor.
- slivers of almonds: What is a salad without nuts? Possibility of using whole almonds and chopping them into smaller pieces.
- Bacon: because why not add bacon? Follow our Oven or Microwave Bacon Cooking Tutorial for the easiest way to prepare your bacon.
- Homemade Honey Mustard: Once you make this dressing, you’ll never go back to a store-bought one!
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steak salad
Incredible steak salad made from perfectly grilled New York strip steak, lots of veggies, avocado, goat cheese and a delicious herb vinaigrette dressing!
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Tips for salad with grilled chicken
Grilling chicken breasts is super easy and I’ll give you 2 tips to get the perfect grilled chicken salad every time.
- 400ºF Grill Temperature: 400ºF is not too hot and not too cold. You get beautiful grill marks on the outside and juicy, tender meat on the inside.
- 165ºF Indoor Temperature: Because all chicken breasts are different, all you have to do is measure the internal temperature to find out if they’re done. So? Grab a meat thermometer and cook your chicken to perfection.
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What Kind of Chicken Can I Use in Grilled Chicken Salad?
While we used grilled chicken breasts, any piece of grilled chicken will work!
Don’t want to grill your chicken?
Don’t have a BBQ? Follow our easy Roasted Chicken Breasts recipe or our Baked Chicken Breasts recipe for other methods.
Try our grilled salmon!
Instead of using chicken together, try making our Grilled Salmon recipe for a slight twist on this salad.
Homemade honey mustard
No additives, no preservatives, just 6 total ingredients to make the most delicious homemade honey mustard dressing. Here’s what you need:
- greek yogurt
- yellow mustard
- Honey
- white wine vinegar
- garlic powder
- pepper
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Honey mustard dressing
The Easiest Honey Mustard Dressing Recipe You’ll Ever Make! This recipe is made with Greek yogurt, yellow mustard, honey, and some white vinegar.
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More salad dressing ideas
Not a fan of honey mustard? Try one of our other homemade dressings below!
Creamy Green Goddess Dressing – This Creamy Green Goddess Dressing recipe is made with a Greek yogurt base, tons of fresh herbs, anti-inflammatory spices and a squeeze of lemon juice.
Avocado Cilantro Lime Dressing – Our Avocado Cilantro Lime Dressing is fresh, flavorful and a top choice to keep in your fridge forever!
Best balsamic dressing – Simple yet so flavorful, this is no ordinary balsamic dressing. Made from real ingredients and the perfect accompaniment to any salad. Make this dressing today!
Homemade poppy seed dressing – Try our poppyseed dressing recipe. It consists of olive oil, lemon juice, some Greek yogurt, poppy seeds and honey.
Grilled chicken salad
A light a fresh Grilled chicken salad recipe Made with perfectly grilled chicken breasts, blueberries, gorgonzola cheese, apple, almonds, bacon and honey mustard dressing.
Preparation:30 protocol
Cook:20 protocol
In total:50 protocol
Ingredients
Grilled chicken breast
- 1-1.5 Lb. boneless, skinless chicken breast
- 2-3 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/4 teaspoon Salt
- ⅛ teaspoon ground pepper
other ingredients
- 8th cups Mix spring salad
- 1/4 Cup crumbled gorgonzola cheese
- 1/2 Cup slivers of almonds
- 1 Cup diced apples
- 1 Cup fresh blueberries
- 1/2 Cup chopped cooked bacon ~6 strips
instructions
Grilled chicken breast
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First season the chicken with garlic powder, salt and pepper. Put aside.
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Next, preheat the grill to 400ºF and spray the grates with cooking spray
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Grill chicken breasts at 400ºF for about 15 minutes, turning halfway through. You’ll know the chicken breast is done cooking when the internal temperature reaches 165ºF.
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Remove from the grill and let rest for 5 minutes. Then cut into small pieces.
Honey mustard dressing
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To make this homemade honey mustard dressing, follow the directions HERE.
salads
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To assemble the salad, add about 2 cups of spring salad mix to each bowl.
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Then top each salad with equal amounts of gorgonzola, almonds, apples, blueberries, bacon bits, and diced chicken breast.
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Finally, drizzle about 2 tablespoons of honey-mustard dressing onto each salad.
nutritional information
Calories: 521kcal Carbohydrates: 48G Protein: 42G Fat: 19G Fiber: 5G Sugar: 36G
Photography: The photos captured in this post are by Erin from The Wooden Skillet.