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Cilantro Chicken Avocado Taco Salad

Chicken Salad with Avocado & Cilantro {in a Taco Salad Shell}

Creamy chicken salad with buttery avocado, crisp freshness of cilantro, warm flavors of ground toasted cumin seeds, on a bed of leafy greens, served from the crunchy goodness that is a taco salad shell. Delicioso!!
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Course Salad
Servings 2

Ingredients
  

For chicken salad...

  • 2 cups cooked chicken diced
  • 1 avocado diced
  • 1 scallion sliced
  • 1/2 jalapeno fine diced
  • 1/8 cup red onion fine diced
  • 1/4 cup cilantro leaves
  • 1/3 cup mayo
  • 1 Tbl. Dijon mustard
  • 1 Tbl. lime juice
  • 1 Tbl. ground toasted cumin seeds
  • sea salt & fresh cracked pepper

For cilantro lime vinaigrette...

  • 3 Tbl. Oli+Ve Cilantro & Roasted Onion Olive Oil
  • 1 Tbl. lime juice
  • 2 Tbl. cilantro minced
  • 1/4 tsp. cayenne
  • sea salt & fresh cracked pepper

For tortilla shells...

  • 2 large tortilla shells
  • 2 cups leafy greens

Instructions
 

For chicken salad...

  • Combine all chicken salad ingredients.

For tortilla shells...

  • Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
  • Place tortillas in taco salad shells forms.
  • Bake 5-7 minutes until golden brown.
  • Put 1 cup leafy greens in salad shell and top with 1 cup chicken salad.
  • Drizzle with cilantro lime vinaigrette.