Ingredients

  • 2 cups refrigerated cooked chicken (or leftover rotisserie chicken)
  • 8 slices precooked bacon
  • 12 cup red onion, sliced
  • 4 teaspoons green onions (optional)
  • 4 cups romaine lettuce
  • 1 avocado
  • 1 cup grape tomatoes
  • olive oil flavored cooking spray
  • 14 cup mayonnaise
  • 1 tablespoon barbecue sauce
  • 12 ounce blue corn tortilla chips
  • 4 teaspoons pimentos (optional)

Method

  • Preheat large saute pan on medium for 2-3 minutes.
  • Rinse and peel red onion, cut in half and slice into 1/2-inch strips (about 1/2 cup).
  • Spray saute pan with cooking spray.
  • Add onion, cover and brown thoroughly for 7-9 minutes, stirring often.
  • Place onions in medium mixing bowl and set aside for 2-3 minutes to cool.
  • Cut chicken and bacon into 1/2-inch chunks and add to onions.
  • Stir mayonnaise and barbecue sauce into chicken.
  • Rinse lettuce, green onions and tomatoes.
  • Line serving plates with lettuce leaves.
  • Place blue corn chips around outside edge of plate (or crumble chips over lettuce).
  • Place chicken salad in center of each plate.
  • Sprinkle with pimentos.
  • Cut green onions into 1/4-inch slices, using up to 1 inch of green tops.
  • Sprinkle over chicken salad.
  • Cut avocado lengthwise into quarters.
  • Remove seed and peel.
  • Slice into bite-size chunks.
  • Place avocado and tomatoes around chicken salad.