BBQ Chicken Salad with Cilantro Lime Ranch Dressing

I love a nice big salad! It's my opportunity to pile on the veggies and protein, this fills me up! I often have salads for lunch, but the other day I made this for dinner. My husband loved it, and asked for it to be on the regular dinner rotation. 

If you love salads too I think you'll love this! For this salad I used a low fat ranch dressing to make the cilantro dressing. BBQ sauce is filled with sugar, so I used the one that I could find with the least amount of sugar in it, and I only used enough to coat the chicken. 

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 3 grilled chicken breasts marinated in BBQ sauce for 30 minutes. After chicken is grilled thinly slice chicken breasts. 

Here's what you'll need: 

1 can black beans washed & rinsed

2 tomatoes diced

1 handful of cilantro, chopped

1 lime

1 can of corn rinsed & washed

5 green onions chopped

1 cup low fat ranch dressing

Mexican cheese if desired

2 romaine lettuce hearts chopped

Assemble to salad with the lettuce first and then pile on all your other toppings. 

For the dressing you'll mix your ranch dressing with the juice of 1 lime, add half a handful of cilantro and mix together. Drizzle over salad.