Southwestern Grilled Chicken Salad

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 4 chicken breasts
• 1 bottle ranch dressing
• 1 bottle mild salsa or 1 bottle hot salsa
• emeril's original essence (make your own or buy emeril's)
• olive oil
• shredded lettuce
• 8 corn tortillas
• sliced black olives
• sliced red onion
• shredded carrot (other salad fixin's to your taste)
• shredded cheese

Recipe

• 1 season the chicken breasts with essence, drizzle with olive oil and grill or bake until done.
• 2 you can also substitute fajita seasoned sliced chicken breasts strips here.
• 3 slice the chicken breasts into thin strips.
• 4 toss the lettuce with your other salad"stuff".
• 5 slice the corn tortillas into thin strips and deep fry until crisp.
• 6 if you stop short of crisp, the tortillas will be tough.
• 7 test one and if this is the case, just refry til crisp.
• 8 drain on paper towels.
• 9 divide the tortillas into four equal portions and place on individual plates (i use deep pasta bowels).
• 10 place the lettuce mix on top of the tortilla strips and put an equal portion of chicken breast on each.
• 11 mix together the ranch dressing and salsa 1:1.
• 12 pour this over each salad and sprinkle cheese on top.