Stuffed Avocados with Chicken Bacon Salad
Change up your usual meals with our Chicken-Stuffed Avocados. This tasty and healthy dish features ripe avocados filled with delicious chicken and crispy bacon.
Servings: 6 Servings
Ingredients
For The Stuffed Avocados
- 12 slices low sodium bacon, you can also use turkey bacon
- 3 whole avocados, cut in half, pits removed
- 1/2 lemon
- 2 cups diced or shredded baked chicken breasts, or shredded 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 black pepper, to taste
Instructions
For The 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, 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 overnight and up to 24 hours.
Nutrition
Serving: 1halved avocado | Calories: 215kcal | Carbohydrates: 2g | Protein: 18g | Fat: 14g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Cholesterol: 59mg | Sodium: 196mg | Potassium: 210mg | Vitamin A: 70IU | Vitamin C: 10mg | Calcium: 16mg | Iron: 0.7mg
