Fiesta Chicken Salad. Find Deals on Chicken Fiesta in Seasonings on Amazon. Easy fiesta lime chicken salad with chipotle dressing is perfect for healthy dinners on busy weeknights and summer grilling. It's mid-May and my summertime grilled chicken salad game is already on fire you guys.
In a large resealable plastic bag, combine the seasonings. Add chicken, a few pieces at a time, and shake to coat. Place chicken on a greased broiler pan. You can have Fiesta Chicken Salad using 11 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Fiesta Chicken Salad
- You need 2 of Chicken Breasts.
- You need 1 packages of taco seasoning.
- It's 1/4 medium of onion, diced.
- You need 1 can of black beans, rinsed and drained.
- It's 1 can of corn, drained.
- Prepare 1 cup of black eyed peas, cooked and drained.
- You need 1/2 cup of salsa.
- Prepare 4 of servings of spinach.
- It's 1 large of tomato, diced.
- You need 1/2 medium of bell pepper, chopped.
- You need 4 of fresh banana peppers, chopped.
On two plates, arrange the salad greens, black beans, onion and tomato. I love blackened seasoning, it's great over chicken but also wonderful over salmon like this Blackened Salmon with Mango dish and these Blackened Scallops with Horseradish Sauce! I also love these Blackened Fish Tacos with Cabbage Mango Slaw using cod. Turning this into a salad makes for the perfect light summer lunch or dinner.
Fiesta Chicken Salad step by step
- Rub chicken with half the taco seasoning and cook on a George Foreman or in an oiled pan until juices are clear.
- Saute onion in a skillet, add corn, beans, black eyed peas, salsa and other half of taco seasoning in the skillet. Mix and cook until heated through.
- Serve sliced chicken and hot corn mixture over spinach, chopped peppers and tomato. Tortilla chips make excellent croutons!.
Prepare the salad by tossing the greens, onion and tomato. Top salad with chicken and dress with the bean and corn mixture. The spicy Mexican flavors are perfect to mix with the chicken. Mix lime juice, olive oil, chili powder, cumin, salt, and black pepper together in a resealable plastic bag along with the chicken breasts. Fiesta Ranch Chicken Pasta Salad is full of fresh southwestern flavors with black beans, corn, cheese and tomatoes.