Chicken taco salad

Chicken taco salad

By Chelsie Collins
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Prep: 10 mins no cook

Easy

Serves 1

A crunchy chicken salad that's zesty, healthy and 4 of your 5-a-day. Try this for variety in your teenager's lunchbox or take it to work

Nutrition and extra info

  • Healthy

Nutrition: per serving

  • kcal421
  • fat20g
  • saturates4g
  • carbs27g
  • sugars16g
  • fibre10g
  • protein29g
  • salt0.8g
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Ingredients

  • ¼ tsp olive oil
    olive oil

    Olive oil

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  • 2 tbsp low-fat soured cream
  • 1 tsp white wine vinegar
  • 1 Baby Gem lettuce, shredded
  • 50g sweetcorn, drained
    Sweetcorn

    Sweetcorn

    sw-eet corn

    Also known as corn on the cob, sweetcorn is composed of rows of tightly packed golden yellow…

  • 5 cherry tomatoes, halved
  • 75g cooked BBQ chicken
    Turkey

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    While it's the traditional Christmas bird, turkey is good to eat all year round, though…

  • juice 1 lime
    Lime

    Lime

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    The same shape, but smaller than…

  • ½ small avocado, peeled and chopped
    Avocado

    Avocado

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    Although it's technically a fruit, the mild-flavoured avocado is used as a vegetable. Native…

  • 1 corn taco shell, broken into pieces

Method

  1. Make the dressing by combining the oil, soured cream and vinegar. Keep in the fridge.

  2. Put the lettuce, sweetcorn, tomatoes and chicken in a lunchbox. Stir the lime juice into the avocado and put on top. Pack the dressing on the side.

  3. Scatter the taco over the salad to serve.

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Che Guevaraa's picture
Che Guevaraa
8th Jul, 2020
4.05
This was a lovely salad. I didn’t think the dressing would work but it really did. I didn’t see the point in the tacos that’s why I only gave it 4 stars. But maybe I would’ve got the point if I was a teenager lol.
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