Chicken Caesar Salad - Heartstone Farm

Published: February 29, 2024  · Updated: April 10, 2024

Chicken Caesar Salad

By Heartstone Farm Kitchen

When you want a satisfying salad, Chicken Caesar Salad is the way to go. The all-natural air-chilled chicken breast and croutons bring flavor, texture and fill you up while the greens add bright color, taste and a crisp crunch. Fold in that dressing and you have a nice creamy texture and a bit of tangy punch. It's a meal in itself or a great family-style starter. This recipe is flexible. You can use other cuts of our poultry as well including chicken tenders, chicken thigh meat, slices from a whole chicken. You could even us our all-natural turkey tenderloins which would be delicious! Whichever you prefer. 

Just a friendly reminder that our all-natural chicken is far superior to grocery store chicken in taste and nutritional value. We source our chickens from our friends at CommonWealth Poultry in Gardiner, Maine. In turn, Commonwealth gets its chickens from family farms in New Hampshire and Pennsylvania where they have close, long-term relationships.

The chicken is air chilled which is a cutting edge method to cool the meat to safe temperatures and preserve freshness. Other companies cool their chicken in chemical-laden water baths, meaning your chicken absorbs both. We believe your family deserves better than that. CommonWealth Poultry butchers their chickens with care right here in Maine on the same day it is received through our doors. After carefully and precisely following all USDA regulations during the butchering process, they pass the product through several environmentally controlled cooling chambers where purified cold air circulates the product. The result is a healthier, safer, and flavorful chicken. Read more about the benefits of all-natural air-chilled chicken.

We hope you and family and guests enjoy the slightly sweet and savory flavor of real chicken, raised naturally, without antibiotics or growth hormones.

Chicken Caesar Salad

Heartstone Farm Kitchen

Prep Time

20 minutes

Cook Time

20 minutes

Calories

492

Cuisine

American

Category

chicken

Consider cooking your chicken a day or two ahead to make salad assembly extra quick on those days and nights where you're crunched for time.

Chicken Caesar Salad

Ingredients

    For the Dressing

    • 2 tbsp mayonnaise
    • 3 tbps plain Greek yogurt
    • 2 tbsp lemon juice
    • 1/2 tsp Dijon mustard
    • 1 clove garlic, peeled and crushed
    • 2 anchovy fillets in oil, drained and chopped
    • 2 tbsp Parmesan cheese, freshly grated
    • 1/4 tsp salt
    • 1/4 tsp freshly ground black pepper

    For the Salad

    • 2 medium chicken breasts, cooked and sliced (we recommend poaching or roasting)
    • 2 small Romaine lettuce heads, washed and cut into bite-size pieces
    • 1 cup croutons
    • 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese, shaved for garnish

    Directions

      For the Dressing

      1. Combine everything for the dressing in a blender or food processor with 2 tbsp warm water. Blend on high until smooth. Cover and chill until ready to serve

      For the Salad

      1. Divide the lettuce, chicken, and croutons among four plates

      2. Lightly toss the prepared dressing with the greens and season with additional black pepper if desired

      3. Top the salads with shaved Parmesan cheese

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