Buffalo Chicken Salad with Bacon and Blue Cheese

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Prep Time: 10 mins
Cook Time: 15 mins
Additional Time: 30 mins
Total Time: 55 mins
Servings: 2
Yield: 2 salads

Ingredients

  1. 4 slices bacon
  2. 9 ounces cubed cooked chicken
  3. 1 pinch salt and ground black pepper to taste
  4. 3 tablespoons Buffalo wing sauce (such as Frank’s RedHot®)
  5. 2 plum tomatoes, seeded and chopped
  6. 4 radishes, diced
  7. 1 ½ cups chopped romaine lettuce
  8. ½ cup diced cucumber
  9. 1 stalk celery, sliced
  10. 2 slices red onion, chopped
  11. ¼ cup crumbled blue cheese
  12. 3 tablespoons blue cheese salad dressing, or to taste

Instructions

  1. Place bacon in a large skillet and cook over medium-high heat, turning occasionally, until evenly browned, about 10 minutes. Drain bacon slices on paper towels and let cool.
  2. Reheat chicken in the bacon fat, seasoning with salt and pepper, until just starting to brown, about 3 minutes. Drain chicken on paper towels and place in a large bowl. Add wing sauce and stir to coat all the pieces. Cover and chill in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes.
  3. Break bacon into pieces and combine with chicken. Add tomatoes, radishes, lettuce, cucumber, celery, red onion, blue cheese, and dressing. Toss salad and divide between 2 plates.
  4. Cook the chicken in olive oil instead of bacon fat, if preferred.
  5. Use any salad greens you like.

Nutrition Facts

Calories 616 kcal
Carbohydrate 15 g
Cholesterol 136 mg
Dietary Fiber 3 g
Protein 46 g
Saturated Fat 12 g
Sodium 1734 mg
Sugars 5 g
Fat 42 g
Unsaturated Fat 0 g

 

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