Low Calorie Buffalo Chicken Salad
This Low Calorie Buffalo Chicken Salad is just 383 calories and has almost 50g of protein per serving!The sodium is a bit high, but you can easily reduce that by swapping out the garlic salt for garlic powder.Special Tip: The blue cheese dressing is a bit higher in calories than the ranch, so it will add about 25 calories per serving. I used the ranch recipe to figure out the nutrition.
Ingredients
Low Calorie Buffalo Sauce:
- 1 cup Franks RedHot sauce
- ¼ cup lemon juice
- 2 teaspoons garlic salt
- 2 teaspoons paprika
- 1 teaspoon cayenne
- 1 teaspoon pepper
Salad Ingredients:
- 2 chicken breasts
- Olive Oil Spray
- 4 cups romaine lettuce roughly chopped
- 1 cup red cabbage sliced
- ¼ red onion sliced
- 3 stalks celery sliced
- 1 cucumber sliced
- 1 pint cherry tomatoes halved
- ⅓ cup Low Calorie Ranch Dressing OR Low Calorie Blue Cheese
Instructions
- In a medium bowl, combine the buffalo sauce ingredients. Mix well.
- Add the chicken to a baking dish or large bowl and cover with 1/2 of the buffalo sauce, mix well to ensure all of the chicken is covered in sauce.
- Preheat a skillet or grill pan over medium heat, spray with olive oil.
- Add the chicken to the hot skillet, and cook for 8-12 minutes, flipping once, until the chicken is cooked through with no pink in the center.
- Move to a plate to cool while you assemble the salads.
- To 2 large bowls, or meal prep containers add the lettuce, cabbage, and onion. Give it a quick toss, then top each salad with celery, cucumbers, and cherry tomatoes.
- Slice the chicken breasts and place atop the salads.
- Drizzle the remaining of the buffalo sauce over the salads, and then add ranch or blue cheese dressing and serve.
Nutrition
Serving: 3cupsCalories: 383kcalCarbohydrates: 18.8gProtein: 49gFat: 12.4gSaturated Fat: 3.7gCholesterol: 132mgSodium: 953mgPotassium: 1238mgFiber: 4.8gSugar: 9.9gCalcium: 134mgIron: 6mg
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