Ranch Chicken Salad is a simple everyday salad made with lettuce, cucumbers, peppers, tomatoes drizzled with homemade ranch dressing. This is perfect to pack in lunch box or to serve as a light side salad for dinner.
Ranch Chicken Salad
If you are a salad person, then this simple chicken salad with homemade ranch dressing will be your favorite. I make this salad for lunch all the time since it comes together in less than 10 minutes.
About Ranch Chicken Salad
If there is one salad which I make over and over again is this salad. The ranch chicken salad is made with shredded ice berg lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes, banana peppers and cooked chicken.
I used my homemade ranch dressing to drizzle all over the salad. The salad gets new dimension of taste with my ranch dressing. I just made a very basic and simple salad. But you can get creative and load with a lots of stuff.
You can use sweetcorn, sliced onions, avocado, carrots, nuts, seeds in the salad to make it more healthy.
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Step by Step Pictures
1)Take greek yogurt and mayonnaise in a bowl.
2)Add in garlic powder, onion powder, fresh dill, coriander leaves, lemon juice, salt, pepper, sugar, freshly grated garlic into the mayo mixture.
3)Mix this really well. Now you can see the mixture is really thick.
4)We are going to adjust the consistency using milk. Add milk little at a time and mix well. The dressing should be pourable consistency.
5)You can taste the dressing and adjust sugar, salt and lemon juice.
6)When you dip a spoon into the dressing, it should have a slightly thin coating on the back side.
7)Draw a line, the line should stay intact. This is the right consistency.
8)You can use this Homemade ranch as salad dressing or as a dip for your vegetables. But we are going to make a salad. Take 2 cups of shredded ice berg lettuce on a serving plate. Sprinkle some sliced banana peppers or bell peppers.
9)Top with cubed tomatoes and cucumbers.
10)Now top with one shredded rotisserie chicken.
11)Drizzle ¼ cup of the ranch salad dressing all over the salad.
12)Serve immediately.
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Ranch Chicken Salad Recipe (Salad with Ranch Dressing)
Ingredients
- 8 cups Ice berg Lettuce torn roughly
- 4 medium Tomato chopped
- 2 medium Cucumber halved and chopped
- 4 no Banana Pepper chopped
- 1 whole Rotisserie Chicken shredded roughly
For Ranch Salad Dressing
- ½ cup Mayonnaise
- ½ cup Greek Yogurt
- 1 teaspoon Garlic powder
- 2 teaspoon Onion powder
- 2 cloves Garlic peeled and grated
- 2 tablespoon Fresh Dill chopped finely
- 2 tablespoon Fresh Parsley chopped finely
- 1 teaspoon Salt
- 1 teaspoon Sugar
- ½ teaspoon Black Pepper Powder
- 2 tablespoon Lemon Juice
- ¼ cup Milk or as needed
Instructions
- Start by making the salad dressing. Take all ingredients in a bowl except milk. Mix really well until it is combined. The dressing will be thick at this point.
- Now add in required amount of milk to loosen the dressing. The dressing should be pourable texture. Now taste and adjust the dressing to your taste.
- You can store this dressing in fridge upto a week and serve as dip or salad dressing.
- Take ¼ of the shredded lettuce, peppers, tomato, cucumber and chicken in a serving plate. Drizzle with ¼ cup of salad dressing and enjoy.
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