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This flavorful Gorgonzola Salad is the perfect low-effort meal when you’re craving something light and fresh. It’s packed with flavor from fresh tomatoes, pine nuts, gorgonzola cheese, and mixed greens.
This salad with gorgonzola cheese is naturally gluten-free and is packed with protein from the shredded chicken. The protein helps keep you full throughout the day, but you won’t feel overly heavy. This is a great salad for summer dinner parties or for the holidays. You can also enjoy it for lunch or dinner any day of the week.
If you like filling salad recipes, you will love my chicken cashew salad and chicken tender salad!
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Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Light and Fresh: This vibrant salad is made with fresh greens, tomatoes, and gorgonzola cheese, so it’s not a heavy lunch or dinner. The shredded chicken adds protein and helps transform the salad into a filling meal.
- Gluten-Free: This salad is naturally gluten-free, just be sure to check the labels of your gorgonzola to ensure it is also gluten-free.
- Homemade Dressing: This delicious gorgonzola and chicken salad is topped with a homemade lemon and mustard vinaigrette that perfectly complements the ingredients.
Ingredients
- Chicken Breast: I love to use a precooked rotisserie chicken for this recipe, but you can also make shredded chicken in an Instant Pot. You can also bake 1 or 2 chicken breasts with salt, pepper, and garlic powder and shred to have on hand.
- Mixed Greens: A variety of lettuces adds more flavor to this gorgonzola salad recipe. Mixed greens typically contain baby romaine lettuce, spinach, arugula, and radicchio, but you could also add kale.
- Cherry Tomatoes: Give the salad a pop of extra flavor and acidity with a few chopped cherry tomatoes or any tomatoes you like.
- Gorgonzola: This is a milder blue cheese made from cow’s milk that is creamy, salty, and slightly pungent.
See the recipe card below for exact ingredient amounts, nutritional information, and detailed instructions.
Variations & Dietary Modifications
- Add Fruits: A salad with gorgonzola cheese tastes fantastic with fruit to balance out the salty, pungent flavor of the cheese. Try adding apples, pears, or strawberries to your salad. You could also try dried fruits like raisins or cranberries!
- Add Prosciutto: This salad tastes fantastic with a little prosciutto or salami on top! You can add it to the chicken or substitute it.
- Don’t Like Gorgonzola? If you aren’t a fan of blue cheese, try a less pungent cheese like feta or goat cheese. They have strong flavors, but not as strong as the gorgonzola. You could also try this apple walnut salad with goat cheese.
How to Make a Gorgonzola Salad
A chicken and gorgonzola cheese salad with mixed greens is a light and vibrant dish with a unique flavor. It’s perfect for a side dish with dinner or as a meal on its own.
Step 1: Assemble the Salad. Place the mixed greens and cut tomatoes in a large bowl with your shredded chicken, pine nuts, and crumbled gorgonzola.
Step 2: Make the Dressing. Whisk together the Dijon mustard, lemon juice, and olive oil to make the salad dressing.
Step 3: Add the Dressing. Drizzle the dressing over the top of the salad.
Step 4: Toss and Serve. Toss everything together to disperse the vinaigrette. Serve up as a main dish salad with a bowl of broccoli butternut soup.
Expert Tips
- Wait to Add the Dressing: If you don’t plan to serve the entire salad at once, then wait to add the dressing. Instead, drizzle the dressing on the individual servings of salad so you can save the leftovers.
- Shave the Gorgonzola: Elevate the appearance of your salad by shaving the gorgonzola instead of crumbling it. Place the cheese in the freezer for an hour or two and then shave it off in sheets with a cheese plane.
Serving Suggestions
This is one of the best salad recipes with blue cheese because the cheese shines through against the other ingredients and the vinaigrette. It makes an excellent salad for a dinner party or holiday meal, but it’s also simple enough for a quick lunch. The recipe makes four servings, but you can adjust it according to your needs.
- Soup and salad go so well together! Serve this gorgonzola salad with a butternut sweet potato soup.
- If you aren’t a fan of the mustard vinaigrette, you can enjoy this salad with homemade healthy Italian dressing or this low calorie Caesar dressing.
- Make and serve the salad with a side of crusty bread; you can find pre-baked gluten-free baguettes at various grocery stores.
Gorgonzola Salad Recipe FAQs
You can prepare the ingredients for this gorgonzola salad ahead of time and store them separately until you’re ready to assemble the salad. You can also prepare the dressing a day or two ahead of time.
I don’t recommend storing leftovers of the salad after it’s been assembled because the dressing will make the greens soggy and slimy. However, you can store the cheese, dressing, and greens in separate airtight containers in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.
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Tomato Chicken Gorgonzola Salad
Ingredients
For the Salad:
- 1 lb Chicken Breast, shredded and pre-cooked
- 8 cups Mixed Greens
- 2 cups Cherry Tomatoes, sliced
- 1/4 cup Gorgonzola, crumbled
- 1/4 cup Pine Nuts, or chopped walnuts
For the Dressing:
- 2 tablespoon Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- 4 teaspoons Dijon Mustard
- 2 tablespoons Lemon Juice
Instructions
- In a small bowl, stir together the ingredients to make the dressing then set aside.
- Assemble the salad by placing the mixed greens in a large bowl following by the shredded chicken, sliced tomatoes then crumbled gorgonzola.
- Drizzle the dressing on top of the salad and devour. Divide the salad into four servings and enjoy!
Notes
- If you aren’t eating the whole salad in a single sitting, add the dressing to individual servings so you can store the leftover salad without it getting soggy.
- Shave the gorgonzola instead of crumbling it. Freeze the cheese before shaving it so it doesn’t fall apart as you slice it.
- Season the cherry tomatoes with a little salt and pepper before adding them to the salad.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Omg I ate so much food this weekend and it was all crap, so I really need to get some more salads into my life this week!
You did have some drool worthy goodies up today!
Travelling gets me every time too. We are SO worried about Dave getting glutened when we go out of town next week. Thanks for the reminder that we need to be extra careful. I really hope you get to feeling better ASAP!! This salad (esp. the dressing hello) sounds amazing, love it!
I feel for him! I had a hard time last week traveling and even when you do find somewhere that’s gluten free I always worry how GF it really is. You know? I hope you guys pack lots of goodies!
I really know what you mean about suspecting gluten, it definitely happens at restaurants sadly and makes eating out or traveling sort of a bummer! I feel like I’m in no schedule as well with my kids transitioning to summer.
I used to love eating out and now it feels so overwhelming. I will do anything to avoid it. Maybe I should start bringing my own food!
I’m not a big blue cheese person, but I do like gorgonzola. I’m sorry that your stomach is messed up (mine is too, to be honest. I wonder if we both ate something that didn’t agree with us on the trip?)
I swear we are twins. I am not a blue cheese fan either, but gorgonzola I can do. I feel like you’re my other half sometimes.
Yum this looks amazing! I know what you mean about traveling, it’s like I’m a different person! I bet you enjoyed not being in 110 degree heat though!
OMG girl when I stepped off the plane yesterday I was like WHOA. A 20 degree increase in a day should be illegal!
so simple, easy and delicious! Love that this only has a few ingredients!
I’m all about the easy!
You know why I love your recipes? Because they’re easy and practical! Totally the way that I cook! I always want something healthy, but I have NEGATIVE time to be spending in the kitchen fussing over fancy ingredients. This salad looks like an amazing lunch option. Can’t wait to try your dressing recipe!
You are too sweet friend! That’s why I love you’re recipes too. They’re so practical and delicious.
ahh i think travel just throws everyone off, even if fed gluten. yes, been there. Just needs a reset, mentally and physically, right?
Haha yes! I need a vacation from my vacation.
I am such a creature of habit and find so much comfort in my routine. I also feel totally thrown off by travel. I was away this past weekend and it is oh so good to be home. : )
There’s nothing better than being home.