Guacamole Chicken Salad
- Yield: 6 servings
- Prep: 10 mins
- Cook: 0 mins
Ingredients
- 2-- avocados, halved, pitted and peeled
- 3tablespoons lime juice
- 1clove garlic, minced
- 1/2teaspoon salt
- 1/4teaspoon ground pepper
- 4cups diced, cooked chicken breast meat*
- 1cup toasted, chopped California walnuts
- 1cup finely chopped onion
- 3/4cup finely chopped celery (about 3 ribs)
- 3-- plum tomatoes, halved, seeded and chopped
- 6-- (or more, depending on size) whole leaves of butter lettuce or radicchio
Instructions
- Put the avocado in a large bowl and mash it with a fork until almost smooth.
- Stir in the lime juice, garlic, salt, pepper.
- Add the chicken, walnuts, onion, celery and tomatoes, and stir to coat with the avocado.
- To serve, place a leaf or two of lettuce on each plate, and mound the salad in the center.
*Note: Use home-cooked roasted or poached chicken, or deli-roasted chicken.
Nutritional Info *per serving
- Calories 290
- Glycemic Load 0
- Fat 17g
- Saturated Fat 2g
- Polyunsaturated Fat 7g
- Monounsaturated Fat 7g
- Cholesterol 60mg
- Sodium 210mg
- Potassium 560mg
- Carbohydrate 8g
- Fiber 4g
- Sugars 2g
- Protein 27g
- Trans Fat 0g
- Vitamin A 10%
- Vitamin C 15%
- Calcium 4%
- Iron 10%