Carb Smart Chicken Breasts and Bacon Taco Salad
with Chipotle Crema and Charred Corn
This easy salad packs in flavour and a ton of protein from chicken, eggs, bacon and cheese. Lime and bacon fat are the base of this zesty dressing and we top it all off with a zippy chipotle crema.
Carb Smart (50 g carbohydrates or less) is based on a per serving calculation of the recipe's carbohydrate amount.
Ingredients: Chicken breast • Spring mix (lolla rosa multi-leaf lettuce, red flash red oak lettuce, red leaf multi-leaf lettuce, green oak lettuce, bally hoo tango lettuce) • Baby tomatoes • Thaw-friendly corn (corn, modified vinegar) • Bacon (pork, water, salt, sugar, sodium phosphates, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite, spices, smoke) • Grade A egg • Limes • Cheddar cheese (pasteurized milk, modified milk ingredients, cream, bacterial culture, salt, annatto, beta-carotene, calcium chloride, microbial enzyme, cellulose, natamycin) (milk) • Sour cream (milk ingredients, modified milk ingredients, modified cornstarch, sodium phosphate, sodium citrate, carrageenan, locust bean gum, guar gum, microbial enzyme, bacterial culture) (milk) • Chipotle sauce (water, canola and/or soybean oil, sugars (sugar, fancy molasses), tomato paste, vinegar, salt, dehydrated garlic, chili powder, sour cream powder [modified milk ingredients, bacterial culture, lactic acid, citric acid, tocopherols, ascorbyl palmitate], modified corn starch, frozen egg yolk, lactic acid, buttermilk powder, onion powder, mustard flour, ancho chili pepper, smoked paprika, concentrated lemon juice, paprika oleoresin, polysorbate 60, caramel, potassium sorbate, sodium benzoate, soy lecithin, xanthan gum, calcium disodium EDTA, spices, spice extract) (milk, soy, egg, mustard) • Green onion.
The quantities provided above are averages only.
Produced in a facility that processes milk, sesame, eggs, fish, shellfish, crustaceans, mustard, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, soybean and sulphites.
Ingredients
100 g
Bacon Strips
2 unit
Hard Boiled Egg
(Contains Egg)
2 tbsp
Chipotle Sauce
(Contains Egg, Milk, Mustard, Soy May contain Sulphites, Tree nuts, Fish, Wheat, Egg, Sesame, Gluten, Mustard, Soy, Crustaceans, Milk)
113 g
Spring Mix
½ cup
Cheddar Cheese, shredded
(Contains Milk)
113 g
Baby Tomatoes
1 unit
Sour Cream
(Contains Milk)
2 unit
Green Onion
1 unit
Lime
113 g
Corn Kernels
2 unit
Chicken Breasts
Not included in your delivery
0.13 tsp
Pepper*
0.13 tsp
Salt*
Nutrition Values
Utensils
Cooking Steps
- Cut bacon into 1-inch pieces.
- Heat a large non-stick pan over medium-high heat.
- When hot, add bacon and 2 tbsp (4 tbsp) water. Cook, flipping occasionally, until crispy, 6-10 min.**
- Remove from heat. Using a slotted spoon, transfer bacon to a paper towel-lined plate. Set aside.
- Meanwhile, quarter eggs, then season with salt and pepper.
- Halve tomatoes.
- Thinly slice green onions.
- Zest lime.
- Add sour cream, chipotle sauce, lime zest and 1 tbsp (2 tbsp) water to a small bowl, then stir to combine. Set aside.
- Pat chicken dry with paper towels. Season with salt and pepper.
- Drain 2 tbsp (4 tbsp) bacon fat into a large bowl, then set aside.
- Heat the same pan over medium heat. When hot, add chicken. Pan-fry on one side until golden, 6-7 min. Flip, then cover and continue cooking, until cooked through, 6-7 min.** Remove chicken to a plate and cover to keep warm.
- Drain and discard any remaining fat from pan. Heat on medium-high. Add corn. Cook, stirring occasionally, until golden, 5-6 min.
- Season with salt and pepper.
- Juice lime into the large bowl with bacon fat. Whisk to combine. Season with salt and pepper.
- Add spring mix, green onions, tomatoes and corn to the large bowl with dressing. Toss to combine.
- Divide salad between plates.
- Thinly slice chicken.
- Top with chicken, bacon and eggs.
- Sprinkle with cheese.
- Drizzle with chipotle crema.
Pat chicken dry with paper towels. Season with salt and pepper. Do not discard remaining bacon fat; heat the pan over medium heat. When hot, add chicken. Pan-fry on one side until golden, 6-7 min. Flip, then cover and continue cooking, until cooked through, 6-7 min.** Drain any remaining fat then use the same pan to char corn.
Thinly slice chicken. Top plates with chicken.
