Thursday, June 6, 2013

Grilled BBQ Chicken Salad (with a kick)

I love spring and summer because it makes dinner so easy as you can grill all of the time! Grilled chicken and a few veggies and you have yourself a great meal! Whenever I eat out I am always a sucker for the Buffalo Chicken Salad.  I love the combination of hot sauce and the blue cheese with the crunch of the vegetables.  This is one of those things (along with chicken salad) that you would think would be easy to do at home, but whenever I make it at home I am never satisfied.  Well I can now scratch the Buffalo Chicken Salad off of the "mine is never as good as when you go out" list.  We made this combination of Buffalo and BBQ Grilled Chicken and put it on a salad and it was a quick, easy and delicious meal! 


Grilled BBQ Chicken Salad (with a kick)

What you need:
* use your best judgment on amount of ingredients depending on how many salads you are planning to serve
- Grape tomatoes, sliced
- Hard boiled eggs, sliced
- Onion, diced (use what you prefer, I think red would be best, I used a white onion and some green onions since I had them on hand. 
- Fresh corn
- Blue Cheese (Gorgonzola would work). 
- Chicken tenderloins 
- Paprika
- Cayenne Pepper 
- BBQ sauce of your choosing 
- Buffalo sauce of your choosing
- Spring Mix of Lettuce 
- Dressing of your choosing: I use a homemade Greek yogurt ranch

What to do:

- Use Paprika and Cayenne to make a dry rub for chicken.  Grill chicken until done. 
- Toss chicken in buffalo and BBQ sauce.  I suggest a 2 part BBQ and 1 part Buffalo mixture
- Add toppings to salad, drizzle with dressing and enjoy!

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