Southwest Chicken Salad with Chipotle Vinaigrette
Aug 09, 2025 03:36 AM
This Southwest Chicken Salad with Chipotle Vinaigrette is a MUST for your summer menu folks! It's protein-packed with chicken, two kinds of beans, corn, tomatoes, red onion and LOADS of flavor!
Summer and salads go hand and hand at our house. How bout yours?
And the more loaded they are, the more popular they’ll be.
Take for instance today’s Southwest Chicken Salad with Chipotle Vinaigrette. HELLO bold and tangy flavor! This is one of our go-to’s this summer.
This is one protein-packed salad.
It’s loaded with shredded rotisserie chicken, two kinds of beans, black and pinto, tomatoes, corn and red onion and it’s all dressed in the BEST chipotle vinaigrette! You’re going to want to make this dressing over and over this summer, I know it! It’s that good!
The chipotle dressing has got some red wine vinegar for tang, a chipotle pepper in adobo sauce for added heat and some honey for sweetness. And to the salad I add some roasted, salted pepita seeds for crunch and some crumbled Cotija cheese for a little salty flavor.
Ingredients:
Chipotle Vinaigrette
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil,
- 3 Tbsp. red wine vinegar
- 2 Tbsp. honey
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1 chipotle pepper in adobo sauce
- 1 Tbsp. freshly squeezed lime juice
- 1/2 tsp. ground cumin
- 1/2 tsp. dried oregano
- 1/2 tsp. kosher salt
- 1/8 tsp. black pepper
Southwest Chicken Salad
- 2 cups shredded rotisserie chicken
- 1 15.5 oz. can black beans, rinsed and drained
- 1 15.5 oz. can pinto beans, rinsed and drained
- 2 cups small cherry or grape tomatoes, halved
- 3/4 cup corn, canned or fresh
- 1/2 cup red onion, finely chopped
- 1/2 cup pepitas, roasted and salted
- 1/3 cup Cotija cheese, crumbled
Prep Time:
30 minutes
Total Time:
30 minutes
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