Grilled Chicken Salad
Published 3/6/2023
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Our chicken salad recipe is made with perfectly grilled chicken, greens, blueberries, apple, gorgonzola, bacon, slivered almonds, and a homemade creamy honey mustard dressing.
Flavor-Packed Grilled Chicken Salad
If you’re looking to get your protein and greens all in one meal, then this grilled chicken salad is just what you need.
Made with juicy grilled chicken breast, sweet blueberries, salty bacon, and a homemade honey mustard vinaigrette, this is going to be your go-to chicken salad from here on out!
Why you’ll love it!
If these photos don’t immediately convince you that you need to make this grilled chicken salad recipe, here are a few more reasons why!
- High protein: 42g protein per serving makes this salad a great healthy lunch or dinner!
- Fresh: this salad packs in fresh fruits and veggies and there truly isn’t anything better.
- Healthy Fats: our homemade honey mustard dressing is made with full-fat Greek yogurt and the slivered almonds add a nice touch, too.
- Balanced: you’ve got your protein, healthy fats, fruit, and veggies all in one meal! YES!
What’s in this grilled chicken salad?
- Salad greens: the great thing about most FFF salads, is that you can choose whatever greens you like best. We chose Spring lettuce, but field greens, spinach, or arugula are great options.
- Grilled chicken: you’ll need about 1 lb. of grilled chicken or 2 large chicken breasts. You can also use grilled chicken thighs, too.
- Gorgonzola cheese: gorgonzola adds such great flavor to this salad! Not a huge fan? Try blue, goat, or even white cheddar.
- Apples: apples add crunch and a sweet flavor this really compliments the rest of the savory flavors.
- Blueberries: I love adding blueberries to salads because they’re not too sweet, yet they add so much flavor.
- Slivered almonds: what is a salad without a nut? Option to use whole almonds and chop them into smaller pieces.
- Bacon: because why not add bacon? Follow our tutorial on how to cook bacon in the oven or microwave bacon for the easiest way to cook your bacon.
- Homemade honey mustard: once you make this dressing, you’ll never go back to store-bought!
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Tips for Salad with Grilled Chicken
Grilling chicken breast is super simple and I’m going to give you 2 tips to get perfect grilled chicken for salad every time.
- 400ºF grill temp: 400ºF is not too hot and not too cold. It’ll get you gorgeous grill marks on the outside and juicy, tender meat on the inside.
- 165ºF internal temp: since all chicken breasts are different, the one thing you need to do in order to figure out if it’s done is measure the internal temperature. So? Grab yourself a meat thermometer and cook your chicken to perfection.
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Thermoworks Thermapen
We swear by using a meat thermometer when cooking any cut of meat. The Thermapen is our go-to meat thermometer that works every time.
What kind of chicken can I use in grilled chicken salad?
While we used grilled chicken breast, any cut of grilled chicken will work!
Don’t want to grill your chicken?
Don’t have a grill? Follow our easy pan-seared chicken breast recipe or our baked chicken breast recipe for other methods.
try our grilled salmon!
Instead of using chicken all together, try making our grilled salmon recipe for an easy twist on this salad.
Homemade Honey Mustard
No additives, no preservatives, just 6 total ingredients to make the most delicious better-for-you homemade honey mustard dressing. Here’s what you need:
- Greek yogurt
- yellow mustard
- honey
- white vinegar
- garlic powder
- pepper
Homemade
Honey Mustard Dressing
The easiest honey mustard dressing recipe you’ll ever make! This recipe is made with Greek yogurt, yellow mustard, honey, and a little white vinegar.
More Salad Dressing Ideas
Not a fan of honey mustard? Try one of our other homemade dressings below!
Creamy Green Goddess Dressing – This Creamy Green Goddess Dressing recipe is made with a Greek yogurt base, tons of fresh herbs, anti-inflammatory spices, and a squeeze of lemon juice.
Avocado Cilantro Lime Dressing – Our avo cilantro lime dressing is fresh, tangy, and a A+ choice to keep in your fridge at all times!
Best Balsamic Dressing – Simple yet oh so flavorful, this ain’t no basic balsamic dressing. Made with real ingredients, and the perfect companion to any salad. Make this dressing today!
Homemade Poppyseed Dressing – Try our poppy seed dressing recipe. It’s made with olive oil, lemon juice, a little Greek yogurt, poppy seeds, and honey.
Grilled Chicken Salad
Ingredients
Grilled Chicken Breast
- 1-1.5 lb. boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 2-3 teaspoons garlic powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- ⅛ teaspoon ground pepper
Honey Mustard Dressing
- 1 cup 2% Greek yogurt
- ¼ cup yellow mustard
- 6 tablespoons honey
- ½ tablespoon white vinegar
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- ground black pepper, to taste
Other Ingredients
- 8 cups spring lettuce mix
- 1/4 cup crumbled gorgonzola cheese
- 1/2 cup slivered almonds
- 1 cup diced apples
- 1 cup fresh blueberries
- 1/2 cup chopped cooked bacon, ~6 strips
Instructions
Grilled Chicken Breast
- First, season chicken with garlic powder, salt, and pepper. Set aside.
- Next, preheat the grill to 400ºF and spray grates with cooking spray
- Grill chicken breasts at 400ºF for around 15 minutes, flipping halfway through. You know the chicken breast is done cooking when the internal temperature reaches 165ºF.
- Remove from the grill and let sit for 5 minutes. Then, cut into small chunks.
Honey Mustard Dressing
- To make this homemade honey mustard dressing, follow the instructions HERE.
Salads
- To assemble the salad, place about 2 cups of spring lettuce mix in each bowl.
- Then, top each salad with equal amounts of gorgonzola cheese, almonds, apples, blueberries, bacon bits, and diced chicken breast.
- Finally, drizzle on about 2 tablespoons of honey mustard dressing onto each salad.
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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Photography: photos taken in this post are by Erin from The Wooden Skillet.
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It look so good
Easy, healthy, and tasty… until the dressing! The dressing is pure sugar. I almost wonder if the author meant teaspoons rather than tablespoons regarding the honey. I stopped short of the recommended 6 tablespoons and it was still inedible. It made me teeth hurt. I tried correcting it with more of the other ingredients, but had to toss it. Luckily, I had extras on hand and made a similar version using another site’s recipe (which, for reference, called for 1/3 the honey).
P.S. I normally LOVE your stuff, it was just the dressing that was a big miss for us.
If it is hard to make a salad that actually tastes good at home, search no further, this is the recipe for you! The dressing was so delish and I would compare it to Chick Fil A honey mustard dipping sauce…YUM! I did make a few substitutions. Instead of cheese, I used diced avocado. I added honey roasted slivered almonds from TJs. I used Dijon mustard instead of Yellow and LOVED the spicy kick it gave. I will make this again and again. You should too!
Better than Chick Fil AAAA!!
So I didn’t make this recipe but used it as a guide and thank you for the inspiration (I follow on IG and love your recipes, workouts, honesty, etc.). I had leftover shredded chicken and when I saw this I knew what I wanted to do. I pulled out baby spinach and romaine, thin sliced red onion, leftover cooked bacon, strawberries, radish, blue cheese, pecan pieces and balsamic vinaigrette. It was the perfect lunch. I will definitely try the homemade honey mustard soon and make your version. Thanks!
This salad is AMAZING!! I’m a bit of an odd duck who doesn’t eat bacon so I left it out but there were so many awesome toppings on this salad with the berries, apples, almonds, and gorg that it wasn’t missing anything! The dressing is delicious and I will definitely be keeping a jar of homemade honey mustard in my fridge all the time. I work long days so I prepped this salad in advance for lunches and it worked great! This will definitely become part of my regular lunch rotation!
So glad you loved this salad!
I just stumbled upon this recipe looking for some new ones to up my salad game. Wow this dressing is amazing! It’s now going to be a regular in my rotation.