Chicken and Avocado Salad with Lime and Cilantro (VIDEO)

Chicken and Avocado Salad with Lime and Cilantro has the perfect combination of flavors, and this tasty chicken salad is great for using leftover chicken. And see my suggestion below for making this low-carb chicken salad without cilantro!

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Chicken and Avocado Salad with Lime and Cilantro!





This Chicken and Avocado Salad with Lime and Cilantro is something I’ve made over and over since my sister Pam first told me about it. I loved this idea for a low-carb chicken salad that’s a perfect use for leftover rotisserie chicken, but I wasn’t too fond of the original photo of the finished salad, so when I made it again recently I also updated the photos; enjoy!

I love the way social media spreads good ideas around the web, and this salad is my version of one my sister Pam got from a friend, who found it on Pinterest. The e-mail I got from Pam had just a list of ingredients and some suggestions, so when I made the salad I kind of made up my own directions. Then when I got ready to post my Chicken and Avocado Salad with Lime and Cilantro, I wanted to credit the source if I could find it, and when I copied what Pam had sent me and entered it into the search on Pinterest I found Avocado Chicken Salad from Becoming Betty. Betty also found it when someone served the salad to her, so this is a salad idea that really gets around!

My version has larger chunks of chicken and avocado, and I made the lime and mayonnaise into more of a dressing, while the original version is more mixed together. This salad was so good that the amount I made above didn’t even last a day at my house (although I *did* have help eating it from Jake.) If you like these ingredients, I promise this salad is going to be a keeper!

What if you don’t like Cilantro?

If you’re one of those people with the anti-cilantro tastebuds, simply triple the amount of green onion and skip the cilantro. This salad will still be amazing without cilantro, I promise!

How to Make Chicken and Avocado Salad with Lime and Cilantro:

(Scroll down for complete printable recipe plus nutritional information.)

I started with two cups of shredded chicken from a rotisserie chicken. We kept the chunks of chicken pretty large. Dice up 2 medium avocados, and toss them with 1 T fresh-squeezed lime juice. (Use less avocado and more chicken if you want even fewer carbs.) Slice up about 1/4 cup thinly sliced green onion. You also want at least 1/2 cup finely chopped fresh cilantro. (We chopped the cilantro very fine so the cilantro flavor would be all through the salad, but you could chop it coarser than this if you prefer.) I mixed 2 T mayo and 1 T fresh squeezed lime juice to make the dressing but if you like a lot of dressing you might want to increase that a bit. (Remember there is already some lime juice on the avocado, so if you’re not that crazy about lime you could use a bit less.) Put the chicken in a bowl large enough to hold all the ingredients, add the sliced green onions and dressing and mix well, so all the chicken is coated with dressing. Add the avocado with the lime juice that’s in the bottom of the bowl and mix gently to combine. Then add the finely chopped cilantro and gently mix again, just until it’s barely combined. Serve Chicken and Avocado Salad with Lime and Cilantro right away or chill.

More Salads with Avocado:

15 Amazing Low-Carb Salads with Avocado ~ Kalyn’s Kitchen

Garden Balsamic Avocado Salad ~ Oh Sweet Basil

Heart of Palm Salad with Tomato, Avocado, and Lime – with or without Cilantro ~ Kalyn’s Kitchen

Grilled Avocado and Tomato Salad ~ The Baker Mama

Not-so-Dumb Salad with Cucumbers, Tomatoes, and Avocado ~ Kalyn’s Kitchen

Avocado Quinoa Salad ~ Chelsea’s Messy Apron

Print Chicken and Avocado Salad with Lime and Cilantro Yield 4 servings Prep Time 15 minutes Total Time 15 minutes This low-carb Chicken and Avocado Salad with Lime and Cilantro has a perfect combination of flavors. Ingredients 2 cups cooked chicken, shredded into large pieces

2 medium avocados, diced

2 T fresh squeezed lime juice

salt, to taste

1/4 cup thinly sliced green onion

1/2 cup finely chopped fresh cilantro (see notes)

2 T mayo (see notes) Instructions Shred the chicken apart until you have 2 cups of chicken shredded into fairly large chunks. Dice the avocados into medium-sized pieces, mix with 1 T of the lime juice, and season avocado with salt to taste. Thinly slice the green onion and finely chop the cilantro. Mix mayo and 1 T lime juice to make the dressing Put the chicken into a bowl large enough to hold all the salad ingredients. Add the sliced green onions and dressing and toss until all the chicken is coated with dressing. Add the avocado and any lime juice in the bottom of the bowl and gently combine with the chicken. Then add the chopped cilantro and gently mix into the salad, just until it is barely combined. Serve right away or chill for a while before serving. This could be served inside pita bread or sandwich bread, or inside crisp lettuce cups, but we just ate it as a salad. I would imagine this would be fine in the fridge overnight but I didn't have any left over when I made it! Notes If you're not a cilantro fan just triple the green onion and skip the cilantro completely. If you like a lot of dressing on your salads, you might want to slightly increase the dressing amounts. If you want a version of this salad that's even lower in carbs, use more chicken and less avocado. Recipe was adapted from Avocado Chicken Salad from Becoming Betty, which my sister Pam's friend found on Pinterest. Nutrition Information: Yield: 4 Serving Size: 1

Amount Per Serving: Calories: 361 Total Fat: 29g Saturated Fat: 5g Unsaturated Fat: 21g Cholesterol: 66mg Sodium: 246mg Carbohydrates: 10g Fiber: 7g Sugar: 1g Protein: 18g Nutrition information is automatically calculated by the Recipe Plug-In I am using. I am not a nutritionist and cannot guarantee 100% accuracy, since many variables affect those calculations.

Low-Carb Diet / Low-Glycemic Diet / South Beach Diet Suggestions:

Chicken and Avocado Salad with Lime and Cilantro would be good for most low-carb eating plans, and it’s Paleo if you use approved mayo. The salad would be approved for any phase of the South Beach Diet, but remember that avocados and mayonnaise are both a limited food due to the fat content. I would not eat more than 1/4 amount of this as a serving if you’re eating it for Phase One of the original South Beach Diet.

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