As sad as it is, all good things must come to an end, and we find ourselves today reaching the end of our January salad series. We’ve been all over the map with these salads. There was the hearty Cobb Salad, the delightfully sweet and fruity Asian Chicken Salad, a BLT in a bowl with the Light and Healthy BLT Salad, and for our last salad, we are going south of the border with a Slightly Spicy Chipolte Chicken Salad! I should say, I call it slightly spicy because that’s how I like it, but with a couple minor tweaks, this could be burn-your-taste-buds-off spicy. It’s up to you. Whatever your preferred spice level, this salad is the antithesis of the boring greens that come to mind when you think of healthy salads. There are beans, corn, red onions, chicken, and cheese, all topped with a chipotle cilantro sour cream dressing. Oh yeah, and there’s lettuce too.
You definitely won’t feel like you are eating something healthy when you taste this one. It’s perfect for those nights when a giant pile of nachos is just screaming your name. Seriously, give it a try and for a third of the calories, you more than get your cheesy, Mexican food fix. And as though this salad needed more to recommend it, it’s one of my favorite make-ahead dinners. You can do all the prep work in advance and when you are ready to eat, you just throw everything in a pan to heat and then serve over a bed of cool, crisp greens. It doesn’t get better than that. I really wish pictures could do this salad justice. Processing these images after taking them, I described this salad to someone as the ugliest, most delicious f-ing salad in the world. That amazing spicy chipotle gives the dressing a slightly red tinge, which over the lettuce makes everything just this side of purple. And purple’s not a good look in food photography. Let’s just say, much cursing was done trying to make this salad look as out-of-the-world tasty as it actually is. But that’s okay, because the photo shoot may have been a disaster, but I still got to eat this salad when I was done.
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