Street Corn Chicken Salad
Your favorite flavors of elote, mixed up into chicken salad. Perfect for sandwiches, salads, and snacking!
Ingredients
- 2 cups shredded cooked chicken breast
- 1 cup corn fresh or frozen
- 1 tsp chili powder
- ½ tsp cumin
- ¼ tsp smoked paprika
- ¼ tsp black papper
- ¼ cup cilantro chopped, stems included
- ¼ cup red onion diced
- ¼ cup cotija cheese
- 1 T butter
Dressing
- 2 T mayonnaise
- 2 T nonfat greek yogurt
- 1 ounce lime juice
Instructions
- In a pan over medium heat, add butter. Once melted, add corn.
- Allow to cook for a few minutes, then add spices, coating the corn.
- Cook corn until spices are very fragrant and have become darker in color.
- While the corn is still warm, combine with chicken, lime juice, mayonnaise, greek yogurt and salt to taste. Gently mix in cilantro, red onion, and cotija.
- Store in the fridge and serve on a sandwich, with chips, crackers, on a salad, or eat it straight with a fork! Enjoy!
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