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This chicken caesar salad is jam-packed with filling ingredients. It’s so flavorful, you won’t believe how simple it is to make!
If you like how hearty and filling this chicken caesar salad is with all the extra fixings, you’ll love this Waldorf Salad and Southwest Salad!
Current Salad Obsession
We’re pretty obsessed with chicken caesar salad around here – it truly is one of my favorite salads!
We wanted to share a simple version of this recipe and we LOVE how it turned out. It’s loaded with bacon, chicken, boiled egg, cherry tomatoes, croutons, Parmesan cheese, and of course, Caesar dressing. This definitely isn’t your classic Caesar salad – it’s the ultimate!!
The real star of this salad is the dressing. It definitely wouldn’t be a caesar salad without caesar dressing. I used Marzetti® Simply Dressed® Caesar Salad Dressing or you can make your own homemade Caesar Dressing. It’s made with a few simple ingredients and no preservatives or artificial flavors to enhance the fresh, natural goodness of salad.
How to Make Chicken Caesar Salad
The chicken caesar salad recipe itself was pretty easy to make.
COMBINE. Add the greens (cut the romaine lettuce into bite-sized pieces) to the large bowl, then layer the bacon, hard-boiled eggs, chicken, tomatoes, and half of the cheese on top. Add croutons and toss along with the remaining cheese and desired amount of dressing, or serve undressed and dress individual servings, garnishing each with remaining cheese.
Serving size: 2 large dinner salads or 4 side salads
Variations
The ingredients you use are easy to change up!
- Use shrimp, anchovies, or salmon instead of cooked boneless skinless chicken breast.
- For a bright flavor add a spritz of lemon juice to the salad.
- Use leftover chicken from a previous meal, a rotisserie chicken, or a package of chicken strips from the refrigerator section at the grocery store.
- Add in your favorite veggies like cucumbers.
Serving + Storing
Sides to serve with a chicken caesar salad will depend on whether the salad is being served as a main dish or a side dish.
- Use Cheesy Garlic Bread, Corn on the Cob, or a Baked Potato when the salad is a main dish.
- When the salad is used as a side dish serve it with pizza like this Tomato Pizza, a sandwich like this Monte Cristo, wraps or bites like Flatout Wrap, or with a small bowl of Soup.
STORE. If your salad has been sitting at room temperature for 2 hours or longer it may no longer be safe to eat so go ahead and toss it. If the leftovers are still safe to eat store them in an airtight container for up to 3 days.
Keep in mind the croutons will not stay crisp and the greens will gradually become wilted and soggy so don’t wait too long to finish eating this delicious salad.
more Caesar recipes
We love the caesar taste so much, we have several related recipes on the site. Be sure to check them out because if you love chicken Caesar salad, we think you’ll love these!
Recipe FAQ
In its simplest form, a caesar salad consists of lettuce, croutons, parmesan cheese, chicken, and a creamy caesar dressing. I added bacon bits, boiled eggs, and tomatoes.
I don’t recommend assembling the salad more than a day ahead of time and don’t add the croutons until just before serving. However, you can cook and prepare the different ingredients 2-3 days ahead and store them separately until you’re ready to assemble the salad
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Chicken Caesar Salad
Equipment
Ingredients
- 6 cups romaine or salad greens, washed, dried and chopped
- 3 slices bacon, cooked and cumbled
- 3 boiled eggs, sliced or chopped
- 1 large chicken breast, seasoned and cooked
- 1 cup cherry tomatoes
- 1 cup croutons
- 1 tablespoon grated parmesan cheese
- 2 tablespoons shaved parmesan cheese
- Marzetti® Simply Dressed® Caesar Salad Dressing
Instructions
- Add greens to a large mixing bowl. Layer crumbled bacon, hard-boiled eggs, chicken breast, and cherry tomatoes. Sprinkle on ½ tablespoon grated parmesan and 1 tablespoon shaved parmesan with 1 cup of croutons.
- Drizzle the desired amount of dressing and toss (or serve undressed and dress individual servings).
- Garnish with the remaining ½ tablespoon grated parmesan cheese and 1 tablespoon shaved parmesan. Optional: sprinkle on some salt and black pepper.
- Serving size: 2 large dinner salads or 4 side salads.
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Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Next time you’re strolling down the refrigerated produce section, make sure to grab a bottle or two of Marzetti® Simply Dressed® Dressings. They come in four delicious varieties: Balsamic, Ranch, Caesar and Blue Cheese.
Not only are they a quick and easy way to dress a salad, but taste pretty darn good too! They’d make a great addition to just about any kind of salad, I can’t wait to whip up a Caprese salad with their balsamic dressing. YUM! Which dressing would you try first?
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ENJOY!
What do you season your chicken with, I can never seem to get it just right.
I usually just add some salt, garlic pepper, & maybe some olive oil. I keep it simple 🙂 Hope that helps!
How did you season and cook your chicken in the ultimate chicken caesar salad?
I usually just season my chicken with salt and pepper, maybe a drizzle of olive oil and sometimes garlic pepper. Hope that helps!
This looks amazing! Definitely going to try. Would you mind telling me what you seasoned the chicken with?
I would also appreciate your baked chicken instructions.
Which one are you looking for? I have so many chicken recipes, do you know the exact name of the recipe?
The chicken used in this Ultimate Chicken Caesar Salad recipe ☺
Looks delicious!
How did you season your chicken? I It looks Yummy!
This Ultimate Chicken Ceasar Salad looks so absolutely delicious. cant wait till my kitchen is all finished ( we are remodeling) So I can cook and prepare this Awesome Salad! Thankyou for sharing Your Yummy Salad.. I pinned it so I can have it! 🙂
Thank you!! Remodels are fun, but not during the process when you can’t cook or find anything! Hope it gets done quick! Hope you love it and the recipe 🙂
This looks really good. I will have to try it out.
Thanks for sharing.
It is!! If you love salads, you’ll love this! Hope you try it and like it, like I do! Thanks so much for stopping by!
This looks delicious! We love Marzetti dressing.
That was my first time & I loved it!! If you love salads, then you’ll love this!! Thank you!
This looks so good! I love how you added bacon, tomatoes and eggs to spice up the “regular” Caesar salad. Great recipe 🙂
It is delicious! Hope you give it a try. Thanks so much for stopping by!!
Hi i was wondering do you know how to make steak laboruche from copelands?? Ive been dying to get a hold to the recipe ive asked several people and they dont know how to make it. It tastes amazing
I’m sorry, I don’t:( Have you googled the recipe or tried pintrest? I hope you can find it!!
i love Caesar Salad , and yours is great .
thanks for sharing
I love Caesar salad, too!! Thanks for stopping by!