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    Home » Recipes » Salad/Raita/Chutney

    Published: Mar 10, 2016 · Modified: Feb 1, 2022 by Usha Rao

    Ground Chicken Taco Salad

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    Ground chicken taco salad is an easy salad for weeknight dinners and a great one to take to potlucks.

    Bowl of ground chicken taco salad and small bowl of dressing and a glass of water on the side.

    Theme for this week's blogging marathon is Salads. The first recipe is taco salad. Since I avoid cooking beef at home, it is ground chicken taco salad.

    This salad was our dinner early this week. I adapted Taste of Home recipe. Mr U did not want any taco chips in his salad, I ran out of canned chopped green chilies and, used less veggies and more ground chicken to our liking.

     Ground chicken salad in a bowl.

    The salad was ok and was in two minds if to post it or not. The salad dressing was a bit sweet to my taste and wished I had used at least some chopped fresh green chilies to spice it up. However, husband liked the salad. He said since salad had more chicken and less veggies, it tasted fine and will eat it again. That is a good enough feedback to post the recipe here.

     Ground chicken taco salad is an easy weeknight salad and a great for potlucks.

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    Recipe

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    Salad, Ground Chicken Salad, Ground Chicken Salad with Taco Seasoning, Blogging Marathon, Taco Salad

    Ground Chicken Taco Salad

    An easy salad to fix on weeknights or to take for potluck
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    Course: Entree, Side Dish
    Cuisine: Tex Mex
    Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes
    Cook Time: 15 minutes minutes
    Total Time: 25 minutes minutes
    Servings: 2
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    Ingredients

    • 1 lb Ground Chicken
    • 2 tablespoon Oil
    • 1 Envelope Taco Seasoning I used hot and spicy taco seasoning
    • 2 - 3 oz Baby Lettuce or Iceberg Lettuce approx. 2 cups broken lettuce leaves
    • ⅓ big Red Onion sliced approx. ¾ cup when sliced
    • 20 pitted Ripe Olives sliced or ⅓ – ½ cup sliced Ripe Black Olives
    • 12 - 15 Grape Tomatoes cut into half approx. ¾ cup
    • ¾ - 1 cup canned Red Kidney Beans
    • ¾ cup finely grated Cheddar Cheese
    • ½ cup Thousand ISland Salad Dressing
    • ⅓ cup Salsa I used tostito mild salsa
    • 2 teaspoon Taco Seasoning

    Instructions

    • Heat oil in a pan and saute ground chicken with one envelope of taco seasoning until chicken is cooked. I used a stainless steel pan and it took about 10 – 12 minutes to cook ground chicken. If using a nonstick pan, use less oil.
    • In a large bowl, toss lettuce, olives, tomatoes, onions, ground chicken and keep aside.
    • Mix together thousand island dressing, salsa and taco seasoning (listed below salsa). 
    • Take salad in a serving bowl, sprinkle cheddar cheese and pour desired dressing over it and serve. 

    Notes

    • I did not have a can of chopped green chilies and highly recommend using it.
    • The original recipe called for lots of crushed tortilla chips. Husband did not want any and hence left it out. However, I added some crushed tostitos tortilla chips and liked the crunchiness it gave to the salad.
    • Adjust veggies in the salad to one’s preference. I used less veggies and more ground chicken as that is how we prefer.
    • I used Taco Seasoning to season ground chicken. A variation to this would be chili powder, garam masala and ginger garlic past
    • I skipped 1-2 tsp. of sugar as we do not like too much sweet in savory food.
    • One will not need all this dressing for this salad.
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    1. Srivalli says

      July 18, 2016 at 2:43 am

      Fantastic looking Salad Usha..love how colourful that bowl looks!

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    2. Mireille Roc (@ChefMireille) says

      March 20, 2016 at 10:40 pm

      what a healthy and hearty bowl---looks so good

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    3. Sandhya Ramakrishnan says

      March 16, 2016 at 10:23 pm

      I am not sure how sweet this was, but i like a little sweetness in my salad. Love that vibrant bowl of salad!

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    4. Pavani says

      March 14, 2016 at 3:15 pm

      I thought the dressing was a little sweet too. But it slowly grew on me.
      Adding ground chicken to the salad makes it filling and a complete meal.

      Reply
    5. sushma says

      March 14, 2016 at 2:27 pm

      Chicken salad looks soo delicious and colorful.

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    6. Priya Suresh says

      March 13, 2016 at 12:14 pm

      Wat a beautiful bowl of colourful salad, i can finish this salad rite now.

      Reply
    7. gayathriraani says

      March 11, 2016 at 11:37 pm

      Salad looks so colourful..

      Reply
    8. Amara says

      March 11, 2016 at 12:55 pm

      Love the colorful ground chicken salad. I can just sit here eat a bowl right now:)

      Reply
    9. annu says

      March 11, 2016 at 7:19 am

      Yummy salad and beautiful pic.

      Reply
    10. Rajani says

      March 10, 2016 at 9:26 pm

      I don't know about the taste, but it looks really good. Amazing pictures!

      Reply
    11. Nalini says

      March 10, 2016 at 6:14 pm

      Colourful looking salad and your clicks make it more colourful and catchy.

      Reply
    12. srividhya says

      March 10, 2016 at 11:05 am

      This looks amazing. Thinking about substituting tofu for chicken. Great salad.

      Reply
    13. cookingwithsapana says

      March 10, 2016 at 11:02 am

      Very inviting bowl of salad.Looks delicious.Love your clicks so bright and airy.

      Reply

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