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This Crispy Chicken Salad is just like you would get from your favorite restaurant. Crispy Chicken, hard-boiled eggs, cucumbers and cheese on a bed of spring mix lettuce with Homemade Ranch Dressing makes this a great lunch or dinner salad.
Sometimes I really don’t want to cook dinner. After homeschooling and working throughout the day, cooking a dinner sometimes is just off the table (pun intended).
Salads are a great and fresh way to make a dinner with not a lot of required cooking. All that is needed on this is to cook your breaded chicken tenders and make your hard-boiled eggs.
You can go the easy route and use frozen chicken tenders and store-bought hard-boiled eggs.
How to make a Crispy Chicken Salad with Homemade Ranch Dressing:
Start by preparing your chicken tenders and your hard-boiled eggs. If you want to home, make breaded chicken tenders you can try my Air Fryer Chicken Tender recipe.
Here are my directions for How to Boil an Egg. I used frozen chicken tenders for this recipe and cooked them in my Air Fryer.
Once the eggs and chicken tenders are done slice the eggs in half and the tenders into bite size pieces. Make the rest of your salad and then make your dressing.
Ingredients:
- Breaded Chicken Tenders
- Green Leaf Lettuce
- Hard-Boiled Eggs
- Tomatoes
- Cucumbers – sliced
- Colby Jack Cheese
Ranch Dressing Ingredients:
- Mayonesa with lime – you can find this in the Spanish/Mexican section of your grocery store.
- Buttermilk
- Ranch Seasoning
Directions:
Step One – Prepare your frozen chicken tenders according to the package directions.
Step Two – Make your hard-boiled eggs.
Step Three – Assemble the salad. Start with the lettuce and then add the other ingredients on top with the chicken being the last part.
How to make Homemade Ranch Dressing:
Step One – Mix the dressing ingredients together in a bowl.
Step Two – Drizzle over the salad, however much you want.
How to store the leftover dressing:
Any leftover dressing you have keep it in an airtight sealed container in the refrigerator.
It should last in the fridge for about 7-10 days.
Try some of my other salad recipes:
Ground Beef Taco Salad – You will love this classic Tex-Mex dish that takes around 20 minutes to make! This easy Ground Beef Taco Salad is full of amazing flavor from savory beef, cool sour cream, and spicy salsa!
Broccoli Salad – The best Broccoli Salad! Broccoli, carrots, raisins and even bacon tossed in a simple homemade dressing. It will be great for your next summer BBQ!
Italian Pasta Salad – This Italian Pasta Salad is an amazing replacement for a simple lunchtime Italian Sub. You will love this hearty lunch salad, and anyone seeing you eat this will be jealous!
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Crispy Chicken Salad
Ingredients
Salad:
- 4 breaded chicken tenders, (depending on size)
- 2 cups green leaf lettuce
- 2 large hard boiled eggs
- 8 cherry tomatoes
- 1/2 cup sliced cucumber
- 1/2 cup Colby jack cheese
Dressing:
- 1 cup Mayonesa with lime
- 3/4 cup buttermilk
- 1 oz ranch seasoning, (1 packet)
Instructions
Crispy Chicken:
- If using frozen breaded chicken tenders prepare, then according to the package directions.
Assemble Salad:
- Add lettuce into a salad bowl. Top with hard boiled eggs, tomatoes, cucumbers, and shredded cheese.
Dressing:
- Mix all ingredients together well. Drizzle over salad as desired. Keep any remaining dressing in an air-tight container in the fridge.
- Drizzle dressing over salad and serve.
