Fancy Florida Chicken Salad

Total Time: 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1/2 lb bacon, cooked and crumbled
• 4 cups cooked chicken breasts, diced in large chunks
• 1 (14 ounce) can hearts of palm, drained,sliced into rounds
• 12 lettuce leaves or 12 mixed salad greens (choose fancy looking ones)
• 4 vine ripened tomatoes, cut into 6 wedges each
• 24 pitted black olives (any type you prefer)
• 1/2 cup mayonnaise (light is fine)
• 1/2 cup sour cream (light is fine)
• 3 tablespoons skim milk
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 1/2 teaspoon seasoning salt
• 2/3 cup blue cheese, crumbled

Recipe

• 1 mix together the cooked bacon, chicken chunks, and hearts of palm round in a large bowl.
• 2 mix together the mayo, sour cream, milk, lemon juice, and salt in a blender for about 30 seconds.
• 3 add blue cheese to the dressing and pulse just a few seconds- so there are still some chunks.
• 4 toss with chicken mixture, cover and chill several hours.
• 5 set lettuce leaves onto 6 serving plates (about 2 large leaves a plate- or whatever you need to cover the plate attractively).
• 6 place a mound of the chicken mixture on top of the lettuce.
• 7 set tomato wedges around the chicken mound in a spiral pattern.
• 8 garnish with black olives.