Healthy Chef Salad with Crumbled Bacon, Chicken, and Avocado

This Paleo chef salad combines classic fresh ingredients like lettuce, tomatoes, celery, and avocado with hard-boiled eggs, chicken or ham and crumbled bacon. Our delicious Simple Salad Dressing completes the dish, but feel free to use any of your favorite Paleo dressings. This is a surprisingly filling salad that makes a great lunch or dinner and if you’re feeling unconventional, you can enjoy this salad for breakfast too!

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Healthy Chef Salad with Crumbled Bacon, Chicken, and Avocado
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Healthy Chef Salad with Crumbled Bacon, Chicken, and Avocado

Servings 2

Total Time: 20 minutes

Cook Time: 20 minutes

Nutrition Information

calories 526

carbohydrate 19g

protein 41g

fat 35g

Ingredients

  • 4 large egg(s) hard-boiled, halved
  • 1 head(s) lettuce, red leaf
  • 1/2 pound(s) chicken breasts, boneless, skinless or ham, grilled and diced
  • 2 slice(s) bacon cooked and crumbled
  • 1/2 cup(s) tomatoes, cherry or grape halved
  • 4 medium onion(s), green sliced thin
  • 2 medium celery stalk(s) diced
  • 1 medium avocado(s) diced
  • 4 tablespoon(s) Simple Salad Dressing (recipe) or favorite salad dressing

Instructions

  1. Hard-boil eggs, cool and remove shells.
  2. Meanwhile, cook bacon and crumble, grill chicken and dice (or dice ham).
  3. Wash and chop vegetables.
  4. Divide lettuce between two plates, top with vegetables, eggs, avocado and meats.
  5. Top with Simple Salad Dressing.