This Low Carb Avocado Chicken Salad is deliciously creamy with a bit of crunch and is the perfect low carb meal on the go.
Whether it’s on a bed of lettuce, crispy toast or straight out of a bowl, I’ve always loved chicken salad.
Yesterday we decided to pick up some bacon from our local grocery…we got home, I opened the package and wow!
I’m not sure I can go back to regular store packaged bacon- even before it was cooked it smelled so good.
We also picked up a few avocados with no real plans for them, and I knew I needed to come up with something incorporating both ingredients.
The deliciously fresh bacon gave me the idea to make this avocado chicken salad with peppery bacon and a crispy low carb tortilla.
One of the great things about avocado chicken salad is that you can make a batch of it an keep it in the fridge all week.
It’s a great go-to for meals, or even a quick snack with some veggie sticks.
I wanted to keep the celery in the recipe for the fresh crunch it offers, and if you don’t like celery, cucumbers would be a good swap.
Don’t skip the fresh cilantro, though, because it really brightens up the avocado chicken salad and gives a good contrast to the crunch of the low carb tortilla.
Whether you’re in need of a nutritious snack or a filling meal, this avocado chicken salad is creamy, fresh and super quick.
(As an added bonus, you can sneak more veggies into the meal without the kids knowing- hooray!)
Avocado Chicken Salad
- Yield: 4 Serving 1x
Ingredients
- 2 chicken breast, cooked and cubed
- 2–3 slices cooked bacon
- 2/3 cup mayo
- 1 avocado
- 2 tbsp finely diced red onion
- 1 celery stalk, diced (sub: cucumber)
- 1 tbsp fresh lime juice
- 1/8 tsp chili powder
- salt and pepper, to taste
- cilantro, garnish
- Low carb tortillas, baked or pan fried ( I use mama lupe’s low carb)
Instructions
- In food processor, blend mayo,half avocado, pepper, lime juice and chili powder until smooth
- dice remaining 1/2 of avocado and cooked bacon
- In large bowl, mix avocado mayo with cubed chicken, celery, diced avocado, bacon and red onion
- Place scoop of chilled chicken salad on fried/baked tortilla and serve with cilantro garnish
vitalia mazeika says
The best darn chicken salad I’ve ever eaten..no kidding. Also added chives, parsley and radishes, not really into cilantro.
Will keep this recipe in my weekly menu..great for work lunches.
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Josi says
Great salad!!!
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Sally says
Nutritional information would be a good idea.
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Sam says
We’re currently working on it 🙂
Sally says
For 3 months? I figured it out in about 10 minutes after I made it, using my fitness pal ????
Sam says
Well I just want to explain, because I think understanding the whole situation is important in this case. I am working on going back through all of the recipes and updating them with nutritional information. That wasn’t originally my plan because so many people like you, and like I do most of the time, just calculate using MyFitnessPal based on the individual brands that are actually used.
I often hear that people substituted this or that, or used a different variety of something that calculates completely differently. I didn’t want to lead people in the wrong direction and chances are when I DO update this one with the Nutritional Information, it won’t be exactly what you plugged into MFP. So I’ll be sure to add that disclaimer with the updated nutrition info.
I hope you enjoyed the recipe! If you absolutely hated it and believe it’s worth 1 star, that’s totally fine, I understand, and appreciate your input. But if you did like it, I might ask that you reconsider the 1 Star rating. I don’t think that’s fair based on the nutritional information missing. Either way, thanks for visiting and trying one of my recipes!
Denise Childs says
Sally if it took you only 10 mins. Why are you complaaining???
Great recipe thanks for all your effort!
I’ve enjoy so many of your recipes it keeps my weekly Keto diet interesting
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Kyle says
Great recipe. On a side note, that Sally is rude
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Roberta A Potter says
I thought salad was the best I’ve had. Used avocado skin to set it in. Do want the nutritional info though. Work 12 hour days and it’s easier than me figuring it out if it’s available to plan my meals.
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Adriana B says
Looking forward to trying this recipe! It includes some of my favorite things 🙂 And good call on the nutritional information. Because I am so sensitive to ingredients and prone to seizures, I will be making my own mayo. That could cause a huge difference in the nutritional information. I appreciate your efforts to share and the work that it takes to keep a site going!
Adriana B says
Delicious! The only thing I may change next time is to cut back a bit on the mayo. (But I’m sure I’m in the minority.) Be prepared to want to eat the entire bowl full!
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Rachel says
Made this today and can I say wow and thank you?! It is definitely the best chicken salad recipe I have ever tasted. I did make a few adjustments. I used rotisserie chicken breasts, omitted the lemon (I bought lemon since I couldn’t find limes at my store) since I could not find it at the last second! I also did not have chili powder on hand so I used an online substitution of equal parts paprika (I used smoked), cumin, cayenne (I used Indian Kashmiri chili powder), and oregano. I added 1/8 tsp of each of these. That seems like a lot of substitutions but I didn’t think it strayed from the recipe all that much! Oh I also sauteed the onions in the bacon grease since I had to make the make bacon for this recipe, but that’s it for substitutions and it tasted oh so amazing. I didn’t have cilantro for garnish so I left that out. I found for my taste, 1/8 tsp salt was perfect. Thank you again so much for this recipe, it is now a keeper at this home! On a side note: regarding the nutritional information, people new to keto like myself are not used to plugging in each individual ingredient into My Fitness Pal. Rather, we like to glance at the carbs (for me this is the most important while trying to get into the state of ketosis) and see that it’s less than x amount. Just my thoughts on that 🙂
Rachel says
Made this today and can I say wow and thank you?! It is definitely the best chicken salad recipe I have ever tasted. I did make a few adjustments. I used rotisserie chicken breasts, omitted the lemon (I bought lemon since I couldn’t find limes at my store) since I could not find it at the last second! I also did not have chili powder on hand so I used an online substitution of equal parts paprika (I used smoked), cumin, cayenne (I used Indian Kashmiri chili powder), and oregano. I added 1/8 tsp of each of these. That seems like a lot of substitutions but I didn’t think it strayed from the recipe all that much! Oh I also sauteed the onions in the bacon grease since I had to make the make bacon for this recipe, but that’s it for substitutions and it tasted oh so amazing. I didn’t have cilantro for garnish so I left that out. I found for my taste, 1/8 tsp salt was perfect. Thank you again so much for this recipe, it is now a keeper in this home! On a side note: regarding the nutritional information, people new to keto like myself are not used to plugging in each individual ingredient into My Fitness Pal. Rather, we like to glance at the carbs (for me this is the most important while trying to get into the state of ketosis) and see that it’s less than x amount. Just my thoughts on that ????
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Christina says
yes please ! && loved this recipe eating it right now !
Felicity says
Best chicken salad I’ve made and chicken salad is a staple in our house. My chicken breasts were organic and small so only about 3/4lb total. After mashing with the avocado it only needed 2T of mayo at the most. Glad I didn’t add more as the avocado flavor with the chili powder was perfect!
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Jessica says
Will this be good leftover? I try to meal prep my lunches and I’d want to make on Sunday and eat through Wednesday. Not sure the Avocado would hold up. Thanks!
Sam says
Yeah I don’t think it would hold up very well. As an alternative you could make the salad without the avocado and mix it in last minute
Rox Anne Gallegos says
I made mine with rotisserie chicken, onion, celery,cilantro, pickles, Mayo a squeeze of mustard, a teaspoon horseradish,salt and pepper. Garnished the top with paprika. I’m a keto beginner, so I use what I have on hand. I thought low Carb tortillas were not allowed in keto, but I just read that somewhere. I do always look at Carb content and just document everything I used separately on my fitbit. Like I said, I’m learning and I’ve lost 6lbs in 2 weeks.
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Sam says
That’s wonderful! You can eat low carb tortillas if you want and they fit your macros. Some people do while others do not. Sounds like you’re on the right track with what you’re doing, congrats!
Donna says
Loved the salad and now a question. When you say 1/2 avocado to mayo if I’m increasing the serving size do I use a hole avocado in the dressing?
Thx!
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Gina says
This chicken salad is incredibly good! Love the avocado! I’m getting used to using avocados in more and more of my meal prep. Thanks for a great recipe! I’ll be saving this one!
P.S. I didn’t have celery so had to use water chestnuts. They added a nice crunch.
Maria says
Can someone help me out with the nutrition info. I plugged in the recipe to my fitness pal and the calories and carbs came to what I think is extremely high. It says for one serving but I can’t imagine that it is correct. Can someone help me out with macros for an individual serving
Sam says
Have you subtracted the fiber from the total carbs? Avocados have a larger amount of carbs but also have a lot of fiber.