Disney Inspired BLT Salad
One day, many years ago while visiting Walt Disney World, we had lunch at The Columbia Harbor House in the Magic Kingdom. They had changed their menu since the last time we had been there and my favorite item was gone, so I had to pick something else. I ended up getting a BLT Salad and it was amazing! Fast forward to a hot summer day some time later. We were living in our townhouse and at the time we didn’t have any air conditioning. It was so hot that I didn’t want to cook, or at least not much, and I felt like a salad. I didn’t want a tiny side salad though that wasn’t going to fill me. I ended up getting the idea to recreate the BLT Salad that I had previously eaten, and just like that one of our favorite summer meals was born. I have sense had the BLT Salad on return trips and personally, as much as I love the one in Disney, I actually think mine is better.   It turns out that the BLT Salad is no longer on the menu at The Columbia Harbor House, so I’m glad I can still eat it when I want at home.
We love this meal. It truly is a staple in our summer menu. It requires little cooking, so it’s great for really hot days. The only thing you’ll have to do is boil eggs and cook the chicken. You may want to cook the bacon, but we prefer to use the precooked kind. I always make sure that I boil the eggs in the morning when it is still cool out so it doesn’t add a lot of heat to the house. I don’t want really hot chicken when we eat (this is a hot food meal, so I don’t want it to heat me up), so I usually make sure the chicken is done cooking about ten minutes before we plan on eating. The chicken only needs about 15 minutes in the oven though, so it doesn’t warm the house up too much.
Now I have to admit that this is a A great summer salad for a hot day.big huge salad. I know it’s loaded in calories, but I prefer not to think about that. If I’m going to have a salad for dinner I want it to fill me, so I really load it up. It’s really easy to scale it down to a size you want though. In fact the other day we had planned to eat it, but neither one of us were all that hungry, so we pretty much cut all the ingredients in half.
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This recipe looks so healthy and good! It definitely makes a salad a meal!
this looks so yummy. Love how it has chicken in it as well. GOnna share a link on my blog to this recipe
Angie that is so sweet of you to share my recipe! It really is yummy. I can’t wait for summer to start eating it again. It really isn’t a good cold weather food.
You can never go wrong when you add bacon to a salad! What type of dressing did you go with?
YUM!! I love this kind of salad, but I’ve never thought about making it at home!
That sounds yummy! I don’t eat bacon but I’m totally making this as-is for my husband & just picking out the bacon for myself.
OMYum! That looks delicious!
Everything is better with bacon – yum!
I love BLTs and this looks like a great way to make it into a meal.
You had me at bacon 🙂 Yummy salad!
Great concept. Sounds yum.
Yum, anything with bacon and chicken gets my vote. And I love these easy summer meals that fill you up without all the work.
Looks great! I’ve never tried using nuggets in a salad, but it seems like a quick and easy way to make them.
I bet my daughter would even eat this! Looks great!
I love how easy this recipe is and it really look delicious!
I love this salad!
Looks delicious! I just wouldn’t do the eggs. 🙂
Oh man I love BLTS! This looks delicious!
this is my favorite type of salad. It’s so delicious
Love it. The best.