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Wendy’s BBQ Ranch Chicken Salad

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Sometimes when dining out, I like ordering a nice salad like Wendy’s BBQ Ranch Chicken Salad. I love the different flavor combinations that get my creative juices flowing- I enjoy recreating the salads at home for a quick weeknight dinner.

Make this wonderfully fresh salad just like Wendy's. Make the Wendy's BBQ Ranch Chicken Salad tonight with this easy to make copycat recipe.

Ingredients for Wendy's BBQ Ranch Chicken Salad.

While this salad requires a bit of extra preparation, it’s delicious and will make a great addition to your meal plan! It’s also an excellent way to use up leftover grilled chicken. You may like it so much that you plan on grilling extra to ensure leftovers for this salad!

There are two sauces on this salad- a honey BBQ glaze and BBQ ranch. If that’s too much BBQ flavor for you, do the glaze and then just use plain ranch as the dressing.

The fresh lettuce, blackened corn, and freshly chopped vine ripened tomatoes make for a flavorful salad that you are going to love. You are going to love this Wendys BBQ Ranch Chicken Salad. This would be a great salad to bring to work with someone for lunch.

Enjoy this copycat recipe for Wendys BBQ Chicken Salad with this copycat recipe.

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Make this wonderfully fresh salad just like Wendy's. Make the Wendy's BBQ Ranch Chicken Salad tonight with this easy to make copycat recipe.

Wendy's BBQ Ranch Chicken Salad

Wendy's makes a flavorful BBQ Ranch Chicken salad you will want to make at home.
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Course: Salad
Cuisine: American
Keyword: Wendy's Salad
Prep Time: 8 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 23 minutes
Servings: 1
Calories: 828kcal
Author: Stephanie Manley

Ingredients

  • 4-5 slices of grilled chicken (you can find this in the freezer section at the grocery store or use leftovers) or a grilled chicken breast
  • 1/4 cup corn kernels, drained
  • 1/4 cup diced tomatoes
  • 1 tablespoon shredded cheddar cheese
  • 2 slices Applewood smoked bacon, cooked and chopped
  • 1 tablespoon honey
  • 2 tablespoons BBQ sauce
  • 2 tablespoons creamy ranch dressing (Marzetti® brand recommended)
  • 4 cups salad greens - ideally a mix of iceberg and romaine

Instructions

  • In an iron skillet, cook the corn over medium-high until it begins to blacken. Be careful as this will happen quickly and you don’t want it to burn. Remove from skillet. If your chicken isn’t already cooked, turn the heat to medium and add 1 teaspoon olive oil in the same skillet. Sprinkle your chicken with ¼ tsp salt and ¼ teaspoon black pepper. Cook chicken on one side in the skillet until edges are opaque, about 7-10 minutes. Turn over and cover and cook about 10 minutes more or until a meat thermometer registers 165 degrees. Let rest for 5 minutes. 
  • Cut the chicken into bite-sized chunks. Place the salad greens in the bowl and add the chicken, corn, tomatoes, and bacon. Mix the honey with 1 tablespoon of the BBQ sauce and drizzle over the salad. Blend the remaining BBQ sauce with the ranch dressing and serve with the salad.

Nutrition

Calories: 828kcal | Carbohydrates: 49g | Protein: 34g | Fat: 55g | Saturated Fat: 16g | Cholesterol: 139mg | Sodium: 1198mg | Potassium: 854mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 32g | Vitamin A: 47.5% | Vitamin C: 57.8% | Calcium: 17% | Iron: 16.8%
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About Stephanie

I recreate your favorite restaurant recipes, so you can prepare these dishes at home. I help you cook dinner, and serve up dishes you know your family will love. You can find most of the ingredients for all of the recipes in your local grocery store.

Stephanie is the author of CopyKat.com's Dining Out in the Home, and CopyKat.com's Dining Out in the Home 2.

Comments

  1. Petch says

    April 15, 2017 at 12:40 am

    I thought Wendy’s gave packets of a Visalia Onion dressing by Marietti’s for this salad. A few times I read through the ingredients hoping I could recreate the dressing and seemed there was a some smoke flavor in addition to the base of oil, vinegar, onion, and sugar. I remember the drizzling of a dark red barbeque sauce, which you achieve through your glaze but wasn’t the actual dressing some unique Marzetti’s Visalia dressing and not Ranch?

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