Beat-the-Heat Low-Carb Chicken Salads – Kalyn's Kitchen

Posted by Calin Denny On 17 July 2021

Here are 24 Beat-the-Heat Low-Carb Chicken Salads that can help you keep your kitchen cool, especially if you use leftover chicken!

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Today I share Low carb chicken saladAnd this compilation of cold chicken salad recipes has some definitely my favorite things in my house. And over 24 delicious salad ideas are here to help when it’s too hot outside and you want nothing but cold food! Leftover roast chicken is an ingredient that often inspires me to make new salads and now I like to buy the already cooked and chopped rotisserie breast that comes in a package at Costco, which makes this salad even easier.

All of these salads are easy enough that you can make them on a hot summer day when you don’t really want to cook! I’ve updated the post with some awesome chicken salads I made recently; I hope you enjoy trying at least a few of the delicious salads! And try to stay calm if you’re in the US!

Tips for a delicious low-carb chicken salad:

If you shop at Costco, look for packages of grilled, cooked and already chopped chicken to make preparing chicken salad even easier!
If you have time, soaking the shredded chicken in the sauce for 20-30 minutes before tossing the salad together will add flavor to your chicken salads.
Each type of chicken salad can be kept in the fridge for a few days, but for the best flavor, I like to have a little extra dressing to stir it in to refresh the flavors when I eat leftovers.

Pesto Chicken Salad It’s so delicious that after I made it for the blog, I made it back in right away just to put it in the fridge for myself!

Chicken and avocado salad with lemon and cilantro This is a very popular salad recipe on the blog. If you’re not a fan of cilantro, substitute thinly sliced green onions and this will still be delicious.

When I decided to revisit an old salad recipe that had black beans in it, this Chicken salad with avocado, radish and lemon The result was happy. (There’s also a link to the black bean version if you like the sound of it.)

Chicken salad with hearts of palm It uses hearts of palm, which are definitely one of my favorite summer ingredients!

Lovers of green olives will faint at this delicious Chicken salad with green olives!

When we made this Curry chicken salad We got totally crazy about this recipe, and if you love asparagus and curry (and who doesn’t love pine nuts?) you’ll love this salad too!

Nothing says summer to me like fresh basil, and I definitely love the flavors in it Basil chicken salad.

I’m crazy about the flavor of fresh tarragon and this Chicken tarragon salad It is definitely awesome!

I absolutely love the spicy Greek pepperoncini, and they add a nice touch to this Greek pepperoncini chicken salad.

My love for cabbage salads is pretty obvious, and I love this one Chicken and cabbage salad with mustard When I have leftover chicken and cabbage in the fridge.