Chopped Chicken Salad with Cafe Rio Flavors

A delicious Chopped Chicken Salad with all the flavors that make Cafe Rio Salad so good! 

If there's anything I've learned about sticking to a healthy eating plan, it's that you better include a lot of your favorite flavors or the plan is doomed from the start.  I love the blend of flavors in Cafe Rio Style Creamy Tomatillo Salad Dressing, and I make it all the time, not just when I'm doing Phase One.  I used this dressing on Leftover Chicken Chopped Chicken Salad with Cafe Rio Style Creamy Tomatillo Dressing, but I thought it would be fun to come up with a salad that recreates more of the flavors in the famous Cafe Rio Salad.  This new salad recipe has diced chicken that gets marinated in Cafe Rio Dressing, romaine lettuce, avocado, tomatoes, black beans, and cilantro.  If you don't live where there's a Cafe Rio, or you just want to make it at home, I promise this will re-create that Cafe Rio happy mouth feeling that people in Utah love to enjoy.  (This is a new recipe for our month of Daily Phase One Recipes; Check after the recipe for Phase One Flashbacks from this day in 2012 and 2013.)

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