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!
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:
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.
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.
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!
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!
Gather clean, quart sized mason jars.
Layer your ingredients in your jars in this order: dressing, meat, beans or other canned vegetables, cheese, fresh vegetables, lettuce.
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.
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.