Summertime Chopped Salad. (…with, uh… chips.)
Well lookie here… it’s one of my favorite things.
A salad without the vegetables. Can things BE any better?*
Yes. Yes they can. You can scoop your salad up with chips. Thin and crispy, authentic tortilla chips. Salty ones. Crunchy ones.
Or at least the remnants of salty and crunchy ones that sit in the bottom of the bag, ravaged and tired after someone’s hand spent the majority of it’s weekend deep down inside, just missing the crumbs.
This is the kind of salad you eat on a Monday. When you really want to continue eating things that you ate all weekend, like marshmallow fluff blizzards, bourbon floats, pork belly and giant breakfasts. It’s the kind of salad that you pretend will make you feel all lovely inside.
Actually. Wait. No. It’s the kind of salad that I pretend will make ME feel lovely inside. Your salad will probably have lots of green stuff and broccoli and celery and vegetables and stuff that normal people eat during the week. I wish I was you.
Instead, I’m me.
I have no idea what was up with me this weekend. To say I was a bottomless pit is a complete understatement. I could NOT get full. I felt like I was eating nonstop. There have been few moments in my life when I’ve felt the same and it seems to come on every few years or something. No matter how much I shoved down my throat, I wanted more. More more more! As I sat at the dining room table literally shoveling this salad into my mouth on tortilla chip boats, my husband was staring at me like what in the WORLD is going on. I managed to say through mouthfuls, “I just can’t get FULL. I don’t know what it is.” And then he said, “neither can I! I’m starving,” and proceeded to eat three cheeseburgers with a whole sweet potato.
Story of my life.
Summertime Grilled Corn, Chicken + Blueberry Chopped Salad with Honey Lime Vinaigrette
Ingredients
- 2 1/1 cups butter lettuce, chopped
- 2 ears grilled corn, cut off the cob
- 1/2 cup grape tomatoes, quartered
- 2/3 cup blueberries
- 2 slices of bacon, cooked and crumbled
- 1 grilled chicken breast, chopped
- 1 avocado, chopped
- 1/3 cup crumbled feta
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 2 limes, juiced
- 2 teaspoons honey
- 1 teaspoon red wine vinegar
- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- tortilla chips for serving
Instructions
- n a large bowl, mix together lettuce, corn, chicken, avocado, blueberries, tomatoes, bacon and feta. Sprinkle with salt and pepper then toss thoroughly.
- In a smaller bowl, whisk together lime juice, honey, olive oil and vinegar. Pour over salad, then toss once more. Serve with tortillas chips.
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*I might have watched ten million episodes of Friends this weekend. No.Life.
125 Comments on “Summertime Chopped Salad. (…with, uh… chips.)”
AWESOME!
Looks so refreshing! Yum!
Very good, I like it
Andreja
I love reading your blog daily.. you make me laugh! Thank you for putting it all out there! I identify with much of how you express things.. you are talented in writing … and cooking!
can i just be frank? i love your blog!!!! these pictures give me life after a long day of work. and that chopped salad……..lawd.
Love this!! Great recipe :D
This is SO my kind of salad. Love it.
PS I own all ten seasons of Friends – it’s basically the best thing ever. No big deal. Totally support your watching a million episodes in a row.
Your pictures always look so wonderful! & the salad looks amazing too!
This was amazing! Son and hubby were skeptical about feeling full but both loved it and will for sure have it again. I added a small vidalia onion and pine nuts, so yumm!
I love blueberries in veggie salads!
This is my kinda salad, too! The less veggies, the better :)
“I just can’t get full!”. The last time I remember feeling that way I decided to take a pregnancy test. Welcome baby no.2 :)
That is almost a perfect way to eat salad… go on get full
This salad sounds fabulous! I often have days where I can’t get full. Someone told me recently that when that happens it often means you’re actually dehydrated. I’ve been drinking a lot more water since then and I don’t seem to have as many days. I think the trick is to drink the water before that cycle of hunger starts.
Ummmm, yes please! My friend and I made a similarly un-salad looking salad last night to watch the olympics with. The best salads are the ones that you have to go searching for greens in!
Two times in my life, I’ve had that can’t get full thing! The reasons are now 30 and 26. If you also “can’t get enough sleep,” you might want to pee on a stick. Love your blog! My husband and I are always trying your recipes!
I love blueberries but I’ve never thought to add to a salad. Worths trying it!
This looks amazing! I am def trying it this week! :)
I love chopped salads! And the Honey Lime Vinaigrette sounds really good and different. It would be good on my fruit salad I have planned for lunch.
Wow – I have NEVER thought of adding blueberries to a savory salad. Strawberries, apples, grapes, but blueberries?! Thanks for broadening my options! Can’t wait to try this one out!! :)
I just love big chopped salads like this! I tend to order them at restaurants, but don’t make them myself! I don’t know why, I need to start with this one!
I am so glad Mike and I aren’t the only ones who do that. Stare at each other in disbelief and then agree that it is something both of us are experiencing. This looks wonderful, I am that veggie girl who will add a crap load of anything green, orange and red into my salads. I’m thinking broccoli slaw would be a nice touch. Yum!
This has reminded me that a) I need more salads in my life and b) I have not had feta in my house in far too long… double guilt.
I totally get that feeling once in a blue moon. And I’m never like “oh, quinoa and vegetables, maybe these will make me feel full.” It’s always “WHERE is my Five Guys and cinnamon rolls?!”
oh my!! This is the BEST salad I have ever eatin in my life! Thank you for this recipe! All of the fresh ingredients blend so well together!! LOVE IT!!!
Nice chopped salad! I am liking the addition of the blueberries!
OMG! That is a beautiful salad!!!
i can’t say i agree with your vegetable philosophy but i do agree with this salad – lookin’ good sister!
p.s. i’d also love to see you at the Wednesday Fresh Foods Blog Hop tomorrow – feel free to make it if you can. xo, kristy.
This looks really similar to a summer salad I make – but I can see I need to add me some bacon!!! :)
I made it for dinner last night. It was so good! Plus it was Husband approved which is hard to do in the salad department. Thanks much!
this salad is what I am making tonight!
It looks delicious!
Also you are hilarious, don’t ever stop writing or loving sparkles or 80/ 90’s shows.
Your blog always makes my day!
Do you even KNOW how much I want to make this? A LOT. Alas, it is still winter here, thus most of those deliciously amazing looking ingredients aren’t yet available -sigh-. I find it very difficult living on a healthy/tasty diet in winter with so little fresh produce available (except pumpkin, I love pumpkin!!) However. Come spring/summer, this salad is going to be high up on my list of priorities!!
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I made this for dinner last night and doubled the recipe….and in no time, three adult mouths (mine, boyfriend, and teenage daughter) had devoured the salad and BF licked the bowl clean. No lie.
It was a-mazing! Thank you for the recipe! Keep ’em coming!
:)
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We made this tonight and it’s a keeper!! We actually grilled the bacon, too, which was fantastic (I’m a crispy bacon lover). Thanks for yet another great recipe!
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OMG! You could even call this “salsa” and bring it to parties. My mouth is watering for this “salad” and it’s only 9 am.. Yikes!
This is a gorgeous salad.
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We made this tonight and it’s a keeper !
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I made it, I ate it and I LOVED IT! I ate it without the bacon and chicken, but still.. yummie! The combination of all this with the blueberries, very nice. Thanks!
At least the remnants of salty and crunchy ones that sit in the bottom of the bag,
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Just made this recipe tonight…left out the feta because…well, it had gone bad. I added old cheddar instead. My boyfriend and I loved it! Thanks for another great recipe!
Wow, that was the best salad I’ve ever had!
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I just wanted to say that I made this again for the second time last night but this time i actually baked the chickpeas as well. YUM YUM YUMMMMMMMMMMMMM flavor explosion.
ooppps that was supposed to go under your Roasted summertime chickpea salad. http://www.howsweeteats.com/2012/07/roasted-summertime-chickpea-salad/