Rosemary Chicken Salad with Avocado and Bacon

Rosemary and chicken are such a wonderful combination in this dairy-free salad which also happens to be whole30 friendly. It’s one of my favorite salads for dinner! More hearty salads I love are Zesty Lime Shrimp and Avocado Salad, Carne Asada Salad and this California Grilled Chicken Avocado and Mango Salad.

This delicious recipe is from Heather Christo’s first cookbook Pure Delicious. A cookbook filled with 150 Allergen-Free recipes including gluten, dairy, soy, nut, shellfish and cane sugar. But don’t be fooled, the recipes are amazing and her photography is stunning!

For this recipe, I modified the ingredients slightly to lower the calories by reducing the olive oil a bit, and using skinless thighs instead of using the skin. If you want to further reduce the calories you can use chicken breast instead and use 1/2 of an avocado. This recipe was a keeper, also great for the summer if you want to make the chicken on the grill.

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