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Stuffed Avocados with Chicken Bacon Salad

Stuffed Avocados with Chicken Bacon Salad – Quick and healthy stuffed avocados loaded with a delicious chicken, avocado, and bacon salad tossed in a refreshing lemon dressing. Perfect keto lunch idea!

STUFFED AVOCADOS

This Stuffed Avocados with Chicken Bacon Salad is an easy, good-for-you meal that takes minutes to prepare, and it’s especially quick if you have some leftover baked chicken or rotisserie chicken. Perfect for lunch or a quick snack, these chicken and bacon salad stuffed avocados are low carb, gluten free, keto and paleo approved!

I LOVE avocados, I love bacon, I love chicken, it just stands to reason that I mucho LOVE this recipe! 

Besides, a weekly meal plan that included a Creamy Lemon Chicken AND a Creamy Pan Seared Salmon, it begged to be followed by a week that involves a Steak SALAD and today’s Stuffed Avocados.

Chicken stuffed avocado.

After a lovely lunch that consisted of 4 halves of my Deviled Avocados, I figured it was time to change up a few things and incorporate a chicken salad.

To prepare this delicious stuffed avocado recipe, all you’re going to need is:

  1. Avocados… yep!
  2. cooked chicken breasts
  3. BACON!
  4. and green onions

lemon dressing, homemade salad dressings, vinaigrette

FOR THE LEMON DRESSING, you will need:

  1. Lemons!
  2. garlic
  3. Extra Virgin Olive Oil
  4. dried oregano
  5. salt and pepper

Whisk together all of the ingredients in a small bowl and adjust the seasonings to taste.

Bacon, chicken, and avocado mix.

HOW TO STUFF AN AVOCADO

Rich and loaded with nutrients, stuffed avocados are the perfect vehicle to load up with your favorite healthy ingredients.

  • To begin, cut the avocados in half and remove the pit.
  • Carefully scoop out the avocado flesh and cut into cubes; transfer to a mixing bowl and squeeze lemon juice over the avocados AND the empty avocado shells so they do not brown.
  • Dice up some cooked chicken and add it to the salad bowl.
  • Cook bacon to a desired crispness; crumble it, and add it to the salad bowl.
  • Take three to four green onions and slice both, white and green parts. Add the white parts to the salad bowl and keep the green parts for garnish.
  • Toss the salad with the prepared lemon dressing, taste for seasonings and adjust accordingly. Then, grab a spoon and stuff the prepared chicken bacon salad back into the empty avocado shells.
  • Top with a dollop of yogurt, if desired, garnish with dried parsley and green onions, and serve.

Bacon and Chicken stuffed in avocados.

I could seriously eat 4 of these in one sitting. I actually might have done that. In all honesty, I can’t resist the texture! Never mind that it’s as delicious as an avocado can get, but the textures of the crunchy bacon and green onions, plus the buttery avocado, and tender chicken – it’s just so much goodness all in one bite.

THAT is what will have you morning-dreaming up until lunch time.

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ENJOY!

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Stuffed Avocados with Chicken Bacon Salad - Quick and healthy stuffed avocados loaded with a delicious chicken, avocado, and bacon salad tossed in a refreshing lemon vinaigrette.

Stuffed Avocados with Chicken Bacon Salad

Katerina | Diethood
Quick and healthy stuffed avocados loaded with a delicious chicken, avocado, and bacon salad tossed in a refreshing lemon dressing. Perfect keto lunch idea!
5 from 9 votes
Servings : 6 Servings
Prep Time 15 mins
Cook Time 10 mins
Total Time 25 mins

Ingredients
  

FOR THE STUFFED AVOCADOS
  • 12 slices low sodium turkey bacon or low sodium bacon
  • 3 whole avocados, cut in half, pits removed
  • 1/2 lemon
  • 2 cups diced or shredded baked chicken breasts OR rotisserie chicken
  • 3 green onions, washed, trimmed, and sliced (keep the sliced green parts for garnish)
  • plain nonfat yogurt or low fat sour cream, optional
  • dried parsley, for garnish, optional
  • cracked black pepper, for garnish, optional
FOR THE LEMON DRESSING
  • 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
  • 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
  • 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
  • 1 clove garlic, minced
  • salt and fresh ground pepper, to taste

Instructions
 

FOR THE STUFFED AVOCADOS
  • Cook the bacon to a desired crispness; when cool enough to handle, crumble it into a salad bowl. 
  • Cut the avocados, remove the pits, and carefully scoop out the flesh. 
  • Dice up the avocado flesh and add it to the salad bowl.
  • Squeeze a bit of lemon juice over the diced avocados and the empty avocado shells to prevent from browning.
  • In the salad bowl, mix in the diced or shredded chicken and the white part of the sliced green onions. Set aside.
FOR THE LEMON DRESSING
  • Whisk together all of the ingredients in a small bowl; adjust the seasonings to taste and pour it over the salad.  
  • Taste the salad and adjust the seasonings.
  • Using a spoon, scoop out the prepared chicken bacon salad and fill the empty avocado shells.
  • If desired, add a dollop of plain nonfat yogurt or sour cream.
  • Garnish with sliced green onions, dried parsley and cracked black pepper.
  • Serve.

Notes

You can prepare the salad ahead of time and refrigerate until ready to use. I suggest no more than over night and up to 24 hours. 
WW FREESTYLE POINTS: 10

Nutrition

Serving: 1 halved avocado | Calories: 215 kcal | Carbohydrates: 2 g | Protein: 18 g | Fat: 14 g | Saturated Fat: 3 g | Cholesterol: 59 mg | Sodium: 196 mg | Potassium: 210 mg | Vitamin A: 70 IU | Vitamin C: 10 mg | Calcium: 16 mg | Iron: 0.7 mg | Net Carbs: 2 g

Nutritional info is an estimate and provided as courtesy. Values may vary according to the ingredients and tools used. Please use your preferred nutritional calculator for more detailed info.

Course: Salads
Cuisine: Mexican
Keyword: avocado and chicken recipe, keto chicken recipes, keto lunch idea, stuffed avocado recipe
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19 comments on “Stuffed Avocados with Chicken Bacon Salad”

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    Jill Roberts @ Wellnessgeeky.com

    That stuffed avocados with chicken bacon salad looks absolutely fantastic. Beautiful photos, too. I look forward to trying this.

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    Julia Stearns @ Healthirony

    Legit speechless, that stuffed avocados with chicken bacon salad recipe looks unreal! Definitely, I will make it on the weekend for my family.

  3. This was great, BUT like most low carb recipes I have tried lately, the calories seem to be pretty considerably underestimated according to my calorie counting app (100 calories more than the nutrition facts indicate) even though I was able to get 8 full servings out of this recipe instead of 6. Anyone have a similar issue?

  4. This is EXCELLENT! I have made this three times already, but the only difference is that I end up tossing everything with romaine lettuce. Brought this to a BBQ and got RAVE reviews on it. I do use more garlic in the dressing and added a few sprinkles each of cayenne pepper and paprika and used sea salt instead of kosher salt to bring out the lemony flavor. I just started Keto two weeks ago and this is definitely one of my fave things to eat so far! THANK YOU!

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