Bacon Avocado Chicken Salad

What’s in your lunch box? Or tote or bag or whatever you bring your lunch to work in.  All I know is that I’d want this sandwich for lunch! I’d also like it piled high on some Boston lettuce or grilled between some wheat bread and melted Swiss cheese.

Ingredients:

• 3 cups diced cooked chicken
• 1 1/2 avocados diced
• 7 strips of Jimmy Dean® Hickory Smoked Bacon, crumbled
• 1/2 cup mayo (you can use more or less depending how creamy your avocados are)
• salt and pepper to taste
• optional: a tablespoon of finely chopped cilantro

Directions:

1. Combine chicken, avocado, optional cilantro and almost all of the crumbled bacon (reserve a tablespoon or two for garnish.)
2. Add mayo and mix until thoroughly combined.
3. Add salt and pepper to taste.

I was inspired to make this because I saw the Mix & Match Chicken Salad article in the new Food Network Magazine. 

It cleverly shows how you could take a combination of ingredients, mix it with your own homemade dressing and add some fresh herbs and seasonings to make your unique chicken salad.