Cajun Chicken Mango Salad

This Cajun Chicken Mango Salad is hearty, full of juicy chicken, vegetables, creamy avocado, and makes an excellent light dinner. It's gluten-free, paleo, low-carb, and WW friendly, of course! I love salads that are meals; they make for healthy, quick, and easy dinners that are ideal for busy weeknights.

This Mango Chicken Avocado Salad is great any time of the year, but it makes a superb summer meal because you can grill the chicken on the outdoor BBQ!I was introduced to this recipe a few years ago when my daughter took a cooking class, with her Girl Guides group, at Sunterra Market. It was soo good that I had to make it myself and share my version. It pairs well with this Honey Lime Cilantro Dressing and Strawberry Italian Soda.

🥘Ingredient Notes

For this chicken mango salad recipe, you'll need:

• Chicken breast (boneless and skinless). Grilling the chicken is highly recommended for this recipe. If you can't use an outdoor grill, you can always use an indoor stovetop grill (affiliate link).
• Dried mangos. Fresh Mango isn't always easy to find, especially where I live. It's often not ripe enough, or it's overly ripe (if I can even get my hands on it). That's one of the reasons I like to use dried mango for this recipe. The dried mango also has a texture that complements the other ingredients in this salad
• Spring mix. Spring mix is a highly nutritious mix that usually has a mix of tender baby lettuce and spinach, but often also includes other greens such as arugula, endives, radicchio, chard, and flat-leaf kale. It also looks prettier than plain lettuce!

*See recipe card for full list of ingredients and quantities.

📖Variations & Substitutions

• Greens- instead of spring mix, you can use another type of mixed green, romaine lettuce or fresh baby spinach
• Mango - if you can find a fresh, ripe mango and you prefer it, then you can substitute fresh mango
• Pomegranate Seeds - if you use fresh mango, I recommend using pomegranate seeds as well (this was in the original recipe), and the seeds make up for the texture you'll be missing from the dried mango
• Vegetarian - skip the chicken, and you can add slivered almonds, if desired.
• Kid friendly - this salad is already kid friendly and loved by my kids, but for smaller kids, you'll want to use fresh mango, as it may be tough for them to eat the dried mango (it's very chewy)

🔪How to Make Mango Chicken Salad

1. Step 1: Sprinkle chicken breast with Cajun seasoning and garlic powder on both sides. Grill chicken breast until cooked through (no longer pink inside). *THE very best way to check for doneness (without overcooking) is with an instant read thermometer (affiliate link). This will ensure your chicken turns out juicy and not dry. Your thermometer should read 165 degrees F/ 74 degrees C.

2. Step 2: Add spring mix, green onion, red onion, grape tomatoes, dried mango, and red pepper to a large bowl.

3. Step 3: Mix together and add chicken and avocado. VIDEO: If you want to use a quick and easy method of slicing an avocado, as shown in my photos, then watch this video on slicing pretty avocado! It's the method I use.

*Hint: Chop your dried mango (if you're using dried instead of fresh) in the food processer (affiliate link) -it's much easier!

🎥 Video

If you want to use a quick and easy method of slicing an avocado, as shown in my photos, then watch this video on slicing pretty avocado! It's the method I use.

👪 Serving Size

This chicken mango salad recipe makes 6 servings. However, you can half, double or triple the recipe by clicking on the serving number and selecting the number of servings you'd like. The ingredient quantities will automatically adjust.

🔢WW Points

This recipe is Weight Watchers friendly @ 3 WW points. But it also has healthy fats from the chicken and avocado, and you could further reduce the points by using fresh mango. *Be sure to add the WW points for whatever dressing you use.

🥖What to Serve with Chicken, Mango, and Avocado Salad

You can eat this Chicken Mango and Avocado Salad as a side, but it really is a meal in itself. It is the PERFECT match with my Honey Lime Cilantro Dressing (shown), as that's the dressing that was created to go with it.

It also pairs really well with bread such as my Bread Machine Onion & Olive Bread, and my Bread Machine Italian Breadsticks.

If you're looking for something lighter, try it with my Everything Bagel Cloud Bread Recipe. It's 0 WW points!

And don't forget dessert! This Sour Cream Rhubarb Pie is the ideal spring/summer dessert to pair with this salad. However, you'll want to try it this Old Fashioned Fruit Salad recipe if you're looking for something more ww friendly.

🌡️Storage

Store the salad separately from the chicken and avocado and the dressing, in airtight sealed containers in the fridge, and recombine when ready. Good for 2 days. These ingredients don't stand up well to freezing.

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