Course
Lunch
Servings
4
Tips & Tricks:
- 🔪 Skip steps with knife if you completed any prep ideas! This entire dish can be made ahead!
- 🥄 Dressing ingredients are not included in the shopping list! Be sure to add them if you choose to make a dressing rather than buying pre-made.
- 🥚 Make extra boiled eggs for snacks. Would be great as a pre/post workout snack topped with everything but the bagel seasoning!
- 🥗 All salad ingredients are optional! Switch things up, add more of your favorite toppings, or ax any of these toppings you don’t like.
Optional DIY Dressing
Ingredients:
- 1 large head of romaine lettuce (or 2-3 small)
- 4 eggs, or hard boiled eggs
- 1 lb of chicken breast, about 1 large/2 small
- 8 slices bacon
- 2 avocados
- 4 oz. crumbled blue cheese
- 1 pint Cherry Tomatoes
- 1/4 red onion
- Your favorite pre-made dressing, or make the
Directions:
- 🔪 Veg
- Chop lettuce.
- Optionally, half cherry tomatoes or serve whole.
- Thinly slice red onion.
- 🔪 Eggs (can be done up to 3 days ahead)
- Boil a large half way full pot of water.
- Once simmering, lightly set eggs in the water and set timer for 11 minutes.
- While the eggs boil, prepare an ice bath in a large bowl filled with half ice and half cold water.
- Immediately remove the eggs when the timer goes off and place in the ice bath until eggs are completely cool. About 10 minutes.
- Peel the eggs and chop or slice into rounds.
- 🔪 Bacon (can be done up to 3 days ahead)
- Slice bacon into bite size pieces.
- Cook in a pan over medium-high heat until crisp.
- Scoop cooked bacon onto paper towels to soak up grease. Let cool before topping salads, if making ahead.
- Use this pan, with about 1 tbsp of bacon grease, to cook chicken in the next step.
- 🔪 Chicken (if you have a sous vide machine - find directions here)
- Cut chicken into 1 inch cubes.
- Season chicken all over with salt and pepper, + any dried seasoning you want.
- Warm a pan over medium heat with a tablespoon of oil (or use bacon grease from the step before.
- Saute chicken in the hot pan letting it sit on each side for 1 minute before flipping. Cook until you break a piece open and don’t find any pink, about 5-7 minutes.
- Let cool before topping salads, if making ahead.
- Serve
- Place chopped lettuce in meal prep containers if making ahead.
- Top with hard boiled eggs, chicken, bacon, blue cheese, tomatoes, and red onion.
- Serve with 1/2 a sliced avocado and mustard vinaigrette or your favorite dressing.