BBQ Chicken Ranch Salad
Steemit Iron Chef 2018 Act 01 Round 04
The 2018 Steemit Ironchef challenge is here! This year @progressivechef broke up the contest into 3 seperate 'Acts' consisting of 15 rounds. The special ingredient for Act 1 of Round 4 of the 2018 @steemit-ironchef challenge is the Lettuce. I decided to make one of my signature dishes, a BBQ Chicken Ranch Salad.
Ingredients
Romaine Lettuce
Grilled Chicken Breast
Onion
Red & Green Bell Peppers
Feta Cheese Crumbles
BBQ Sauce
Ranch Dressing
Croutons
Crispy Fried Onion Frizzles
Step 1: Chop the Lettuce
Chop up some romaine lettuce and put it in a medium sized bowl.
Step 2: Add the Peppers
Chop up some green and red bell peppers and add them to the lettuce.
Step 3: Add the Onion
Slice some onion and add it to the bowl.
Step 4: Add the Chicken
Slice up some grilled chicken breast and add it to the bowl. For an extra kick, I seasoned the chicken with Cajun spices.
Step 5: Get Saucy
Drizzle on some BBQ sauce and Ranch dressing. I used 'Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ Sauce' and 'Hidden Valley Cucumber Ranch', but you can use whatever kind you prefer.
Step 6: Top It Off!
Top if off with some crumbled feta cheese, croutons and crispy fried onion frizzles.
Step 7: Toss It Up & Serve!
Mix it all together and dig in! Although it's not the healthiest due to the BBQ sauce and Ranch, it certainly is a very flavorful salad.
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The 2018 @steemit-ironchef Challenge
Act 1
Round 1 - Olives - Kalamata Olive Tapenade
Round 2 - Cabbage - Hearty Cabbage Soup
Round 3 - Cucumber - Cucumber Tomato Feta Salad
Round 4 - Lettuce - BBQ Chicken Ranch Salad
Thanks For Reading!
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You made me crave for such a salad my friend...so fresh, so crunchy, so tasty...and that addition of cajun spices...simply very well done!
Thanks so much for coming up with such great entries in the contest my friend!
Cheers!
Thanks for holding such an awesome contest @progressivechef. It provides great inspiration on a weekly basis. Can’t wait to visit your bistro someday. Has @abh12345 stopped by yet?!
Gosh this looks delicious. I put on weight last couple of years and slowed down on my excercise. I am now restarteing to bw healthier again and thia is inspiring. Looks easy enough as well. Cant engage in anything too fussy
@jeffjagoe. I am a vegan, but not a raging one. lol! This looks delicious and you and my son have Sweet Baby Ray's and Hidden Valley Ranch in common. When I was a meat eater he was proud the first time he made me his baby back ribs and used this sauce. lol! And pretty much any and everything he eats and I used to eat was slathered in Hidden Valley.
I am an awesome cook myself and I remember when I first came across Iron Chef it really inspired me to be more creative, not just with cooking, but in plating. Seems it has done that for many! Good Luck to you! 😊
Thanks @innerstellar! I definitely could improve the plating... some contest entries look like a work of art !
You're welcome! This is great. To improve the plating on one like this for example would be to put it on an oblong or horizontal plate. Then you could take like a basting brush and smear the sauces across the plate and decorate around that. Not being critical of your post. I was drawn to it sincerely, because of the choice of sauces and the title Iron Chef. I think what you are doing is awesome! I just know the plating and the smears are magic. lol! I started doing that after observing it on Iron Chef and my husband thought it was fancy he didn't want to eat it. lol! But, he loved it!
I definitely appreciate the advice! It's funny how smears can make things fancy haha
You're welcome. You don't need to upvote me again. I appreciate that you have been so generous already. I am sharing from the heart with you. It really is right? But, those smears are money makers, competition winners, and what people are in awe of. lol!
Also for a laugh. When I was looking at your ingredients it reminded me so much of me. The Whole Foods Cheese with the other products. We are so funny. I eat all organic when possible, but sometimes I just go with taste and deal with the consequences later. 😅😂
Whole Foods & Trader Joe’s are my go-to... but they are much further than my ordinary supermarket... sometimes I settle for the short distance
This recipe is very similar to how my husband cooks.
Thanks Jeff because I'm going to copy it to make it for him.
Because he says that all I eat is just vegetables
Now I'm going to surprise him
have a good night
Wow..this is nice food photography.i like your food .thank you my friend @jeffjagoe
You are a good cook, this looks delicious without a doubt
A very inviting and lovely salad ... I for one would love to dig in to that yummieness
That looks very yummy up voted
Delicious that salad, I love salads with chicken and lettuce
Tasty, I think I can eat everything, by the way I'm going to prepare it
BBQ Chicken Ranch Salad making procedure are not so hard, i will try for it.
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