Crispy Chicken BLT Salad Recipe (2024)

Oven baked Crispy Chicken BLT Salad that is a meal in one, yes please! Sometimes you want a super healthy salad recipe, like our Watermelon Cucumber Salad and sometimes you want aCrispy Chicken Caesar Salad, I've got you in all cases!

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Crispy Chicken BLT Salad is so easy!

Hey, hey guys! It is nice to see you on a Monday. I know these days I don't usually post a recipe on a Monday but it is a Public Holiday here (Queen's Birthday) in Sunny Queensland. That means I have a little bit more time up my sleeve than usual. Whilst there are weeds in the garden to be pulled and a downpipe that needs some attention....I really wanted to share my recipe with you instead!

If you remember recently, I shared myCrispy Chicken Caesar Salad which is actually the 2nd most popular recipe on SCS. Anyhoo, it is a recipe that you can make time and time again as it is simple, tasty and delicious. Not to mention also being a filling and satisfying meal.

You know that I have been making quinoa salads a lot recently (and if you don't, you can find the 2 latest hereand here)as they are easy to food prep for meals ahead of time and stay fresh for a few days. Well...summer is coming to Queensland it that means it will be hot, hot, hot. I will be still wanting to make salads, but I will need to change it up a little and make ones that are served entirely or partially cold.

Crispy Chicken BLT Salad quick information:

About the recipe...

• Chicken is high in protein
• We oven bake our chicken to make it crispy
• You can serve the chicken pieces in the salad warm
• This recipe is a meal in one

Oven Baked Crispy Chicken

The chicken is crispy but oven baked...not fried. It gives a bit if texture and crunch but not in an oily greasy way.

For this salad, you only need 1 chicken breast as you cut that in half and it somehow just doubles and makes loads of chicken. You will also use a full head of lettuce, punnet of cherry tomatoes and some streaky crispy bacon.

One of my sister's put me onto the crispy back way back now as she said her husband liked it. I hadn't tried it at that point, but now that I have, I admit I don't think I have used any other type since! It is much thinner and crisps up really well in the oven.

So, those ingredients plus our Basil Pesto Drizzle which is a simple but delicious combination of low fat greek yoghurt and basil pesto. If you follow my salads, you will know that most of them have a similar style dressing, it has a creamy texture but it thins out after being blended for a little bit.

How to Make Crispy Chicken for Salad?

To make the crispy batter for your chicken, you use a 3 step process. Well, 4 if you count the cutting it in half bit. It is straightforward and just involves using flour, then egg, then the breadcrumbs. You can also spray a little olive oil onto the chicken breasts before putting them in the oven if you like as that too will help the breadcrumbs crispy up nicely.

This is the type of salad, that is a meal! Trust me, you won't need or want anything else to go with it....other than a refreshing beverage. But a side salad it ain't. The high protein content will leave you full and not wanting anything else after eating perhaps other than an after noon siesta or nanna nap.

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