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Buffalo Chicken Salad

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Published March 6, 2020 Last Updated March 5, 2020 / By Jessica 2 Comments

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Our Buffalo Chicken Salad Recipe is not only delicious, but so easy to throw together! Loaded with buffalo chicken, veggies, avocado, black beans and topped with bleu cheese dressing and crispy fried onions, it is sure to make any dinner feel like a special occasion! 

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I am so excited to share this recipe with you guys today! If you’ve been around here long, you know that these buffalo chicken bowls are one of our most popular healthy recipes! I make them every few weeks, and the recipe always makes a ton! Finally, I figured out what to do with our leftover buffalo chicken… these buffalo chicken salads! 

If you like healthy dinner recipes you will also love these healthy greek chicken bowls or this easy and delicious wedge salad! Or you can find our whole dinner gallery here. 

Buffalo Chicken Salad

Salads are my favorite dinners to serve  throughout the spring and summer months! The great thing about this salad recipe is it is hearty and filling, so the big eaters in your life are NOT going to be disappointed when it’s a salad on the menu! 

two buffalo chicken salads with ingredients in vertical stripes on top of lettuce by bowl of ranch dressing

With a romaine lettuce base, yummy veggies, and finished off with bleu cheese and crispy fried onions, this salad is yummy enough to serve for company. Plus, if your chicken is already made it takes literally five minutes to throw together! 

Buffalo Chicken Salad Recipe

Here is what you need to make this yummy salad! 

all the ingredients to make buffalo chicken salads in white bowls on granite counter

Buffalo Chicken Salad Ingredients: 

  • Romaine Lettuce
  • Cherry Tomatoes
  • Corn
  • Black Beans
  • Avocado
  • Bleu Cheese 
  • Crispy Fried Onions
  • Blue Cheese Dressing

salad with ingredients grouped in vertical stripes on a granite counter top next to white napkin

Pro Tips: 

  1. Put your chicken in the slow cooker ahead of time so it is ready to go whenever you decide to eat. You can even cook it the day before. 
  2. If you have picky eaters (like I do) I like to separate the salad out on their plate. My kids love this meal, but a few of them will eat them in little groupings of beans, corn, tomatoes, chicken etc. instead of as a salad. 
  3. If anyone in your family has an aversion to bleu cheese dressing, you can easily sub it out for ranch! The bleu cheese can also be subbed out for almost any type of cheese you like.. that being said, buffalo and bleu pair so well together! 
  4. If you have leftovers, save them to use in our famous buffalo chicken bowls later in the week or meal prep salads in mason jars to eat for lunches later on! 

three mason jars filled with salad sitting on a granite counter

How to Meal Prep Salads

If you’ve never meal prepped salads before, get excited, because it is so easy to do! It is one of my favorite things to do for lunches for my husband to take to work or for me to eat on crazy days! The salads will last for 7 days in mason jars in the fridge! 

  1. Gather clean, quart sized mason jars. 
  2. Layer your ingredients in your jars in this order: dressing, meat, beans or other canned vegetables, cheese, fresh vegetables, lettuce. 
  3. If you have something dry like the french fried onions in this salad or croutons in a Caesar salad you can add them on top of the lettuce, or separate in a small baggie if you don’t want to refrigerate them. 
  4. When you are ready to eat simply dump them out onto a plate and enjoy! Sometimes if I don’t want my salad to be too cold (taco salad, for instance) I will pull out the lettuce and fresh veggies, then stick the jar in the microwave for 30-60 seconds to warm up a bit before adding to my salad. 

close up of dinner salad drizzled with blue cheese dressing

Okay are you ready for this easy recipe? 

If you try this recipe and like it we would love for you to rate and review! Your positive comments mean so much to us! 

buffalo chicken salad in a white bowl on a granite countertop

Buffalo Chicken Salad

Our Buffalo Chicken Salad Recipe is not only delicious, but so easy to throw together! Loaded with buffalo chicken, veggies, avocado, black beans and topped with bleu cheese dressing and crispy fried onions, it is sure to make any dinner feel like a special occasion! 
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Prep Time: 5 minutes
Slow Cooker Time: 3 hours
Total Time: 3 hours 5 minutes
Servings: 4
Calories: 425kcal
Author: Pretty Providence

Equipment

  • Slow Cooker

Ingredients

  • 3 heads romaine lettuce
  • 1 cup cherry tomatoes halved
  • 2 small avocados
  • 1 14 oz. can black beans rinsed
  • 1 14 oz. can corn rinsed
  • 1/2 cup bleu cheese crumbles
  • 1 cup crispy fried onions
  • 1/2 cup bleu cheese dressing

Instructions

  • Place 4 large chicken breasts in your slow cooker with 1 cup of your favorite buffalo sauce (I use Frank's) and 1 tablespoon minced garlic and cook on high for 3 hours or on low for 6 hours.
  • When chicken is cooked shred with two forks and let sit in sauce until ready to assemble your salads.
  • Wash and chop your romaine lettuce. Wash and halve your cherry tomatoes. Rinse corn and black beans.
  • Add all ingredients equally into four bowls (or into jars if you are meal prepping, see below). Enjoy!

Notes

Pro Tips: 

  1. Put your chicken in the slow cooker ahead of time so it is ready to go whenever you decide to eat. You can even cook it the day before. 
  2. If you have picky eaters (like I do) I like to separate the salad out on their plate. My kids love this meal, but a few of them will eat them in little groupings of beans, corn, tomatoes, chicken etc. instead of as a salad. 
  3. If anyone in your family has an aversion to bleu cheese dressing, you can easily sub it out for ranch! The bleu cheese can also be subbed out for almost any type of cheese you like.. that being said, buffalo and bleu pair so well together! 
  4. If you have leftovers, save them to use in our famous buffalo chicken bowls later in the week or meal prep salads in mason jars to eat for lunches later on! 

How to Meal Prep Salads

If you've never meal prepped salads before, get excited, because it is so easy to do! It is one of my favorite things to do for lunches for my husband to take to work or for me to eat on crazy days! The salads will last for 7 days in mason jars in the fridge! 
  1. Gather clean, quart sized mason jars. 
  2. Layer your ingredients in your jars in this order: dressing, meat, beans or other canned vegetables, cheese, fresh vegetables, lettuce. 
  3. If you have something dry like the french fried onions in this salad or croutons in a Caesar salad you can add them on top of the lettuce, or separate in a small baggie if you don't want to refrigerate them. 
  4. When you are ready to eat simply dump them out onto a plate and enjoy! Sometimes if I don't want my salad to be too cold (taco salad, for instance) I will pull out the lettuce and fresh veggies, then stick the jar in the microwave for 30-60 seconds to warm up a bit before adding to my salad. 

Nutrition

Calories: 425kcal | Carbohydrates: 33g | Protein: 13g | Fat: 30g | Saturated Fat: 9g | Cholesterol: 13mg | Sodium: 688mg | Potassium: 1771mg | Fiber: 17g | Sugar: 8g | Vitamin A: 41351IU | Vitamin C: 37mg | Calcium: 287mg | Iron: 6mg
Did you make this recipe?Mention @prettyprovidenceblog or tag #prettyprovidence!

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Happy healthy eating, friends! 

xo, 

This post was originally published March 6th, 2020. 

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  1. Anna McNamara

    March 06, 2020 at 9:32 am

    5 stars
    Soooo good. I’m gonna stock my fridge up with these babies.

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    • Jessica

      March 06, 2020 at 1:36 pm

      Yay! I hope you love them!

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