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  • Fresh, Fabulous and Skinny, Chicken Caesar BLT Main Course Salad

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    Fresh, Fabulous and Skinny, Chicken Caesar BLT Main Course Salad
    Prep: 15 min Cook: 10 min Servings: 4
    by Skinny Kitchen with Nancy Fox
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    We’ve taken two very popular dishes, a BLT and Chicken Caesar Salad and combined them into one terrific salad. You’ll love how quickly it comes together because we’re using store bought cooked chicken, a light bottled dressing and Milton’s Multi-Grain Baked Snack Crackers, for the croutons. Our main course salad has all the incredible taste sensations of these two meals but with a fraction of the fat and calories.

    Ingredients

    • 12 strips Oscar Meyer Center Cut Bacon
    • 12 cups romaine lettuce (3 cups per salad)
    • 2 cups cherry tomatoes, halved
    • 2 cups (8oz) chicken breasts, cooked with skin removed, cut into bite-size pieces, see shopping tip
    • 24 Milton’s Original Multi-Grain Baked Snack Crackers
    • ½ cup or Ken’s Steak House Lite Caesar dressing or Cardini Light Caesar Vinaigrette
    • 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar, Champagne vinegar, or red wine vinegar
    • 4 tablespoons (1 oz) fresh shredded Parmesan cheese, for topping
    • Weight Watchers (old points) 7
    • Weight Watchers POINTS PLUS 8
    • SKINNY FACTS: for one salad
    • 320 calories, 13g fat, 32g protein, 16g carbs, 4g fiber, 557mg sodium, 3g sugar

    Directions

    1. To cook the bacon-place on a microwave-safe plate two sheets of paper towels. Lay on top of paper towels 6 slices of bacon in a single layer. Lay another 2 sheets of paper towels on top of bacon. Cook in microwave until crisp (~ 4 to 5 minutes). Blot the cook pieces and set side. Repeat the steps with remaining 6 pieces, using more paper towels.
    2. In a large bowl, add lettuce, tomatoes, chicken and crackers. Crumble all the bacon into the bowl. Add dressing, vinegar and toss well. Add more dressing, if desired.
    3. Divide salad among 4 dinner plates. Sprinkle each with 1 tablespoon cheese.

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    • Skinny Kitchen with Nancy Fox
      Skinny Kitchen with Nancy Fox
      Healthy Benefit
      Cooking bacon in the microwave on paper towels trims most of fat. Almost all the fat remains in the towel rather than in the bacon thus in your stomach!


      Shopping Tip
      You might be familiar with Milton’s wonderful Multi-Grain bread but did you know they make great snack-size crackers? Fairly new to the stores are Milton’s Baked Snack Crackers. We’re using their multi-grain but the whole wheat would work too. They’re super tasty and great to use instead of croutons, in any salad. Many supermarkets carry them. Check Milton’s website to find where they’re sold in your area, http://www.miltonsbaking.com/. If you can’t find them, choose a small reduced-fat baked cracker.

      We’ve combed the supermarket shelves looking for one of the leanest regular bacon choices and Oscar Meyer Center Cut Bacon is our favorite, compared to most regular bacon. It’s much lower in fat and calories, 3 slices contain 70 calories and 4.5 grams of fat. Once cooked on paper towels, most of the fat soaks into the paper, not in the bacon.

      Most supermarkets carry Ken’s Steak House Light Caesar dressing or Cardini’s Light Caesar Vinaigrette. If you can’t find them, use your favorite light Caesar or light Italian style dressing.

      We love the packages of cooked chicken at Trader Joe’s. We used their chicken breast strips and cut them into bite-size pieces.

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