Mexican Chopped Salad – the perfect side to all of your favorite Mexican recipes! Lettuce, corn, black beans, tomatoes, avocados, and cilantro tossed in an easy Mexican Ranch dressing made with mayonnaise, buttermilk, ranch seasoning mix, taco seasoning, lime juice, garlic powder, onion powder, cumin, salt, and pepper. Can make the dressing in advance and refrigerate until ready to serve. The dressing is also delicious as a dip with chips and veggies!
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I was making dinner last week. We were having my Overnight King Ranch Mac & Cheese and I really wanted a salad to go with it. I realized that I don’t have a Mexican Chopped Salad on the blog, so I whipped one up! It was so good that I had to share it on the blog. Lettuce, corn, black beans, tomatoes, avocados, and cilantro tossed in an easy Mexican Ranch dressing. YUM! I could make a meal out of just this salad.
How to Make Mexican Chopped Salad
This salad is super easy to make with only a few simple ingredients. As I said, the base of the salad is lettuce (romaine or iceberg), black beans, corn, cilantro, tomatoes, and avocados.
The dressing really makes this salad. It is seriously delicious! Mayonnaise, buttermilk, Ranch dressing mix, taco seasoning, lime juice, garlic powder, cumin, onion powder, salt, and pepper. I like to make the dressing a day or two in advance to let the flavors come together. The dressing will keep about 3 weeks in the refrigerator.
What to Serve With Mexican Chopped Salad
This salad is the perfect side to all of your favorite Mexican recipes. We love this with tacos, quesadillas, grilled chicken, fajitas, Mexican pasta dishes. The dressing is also great as a dip with chips and veggies. Here are a few of our favorite recipes from the blog that go great with this salad:
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Mexican Chopped Salad
Equipment:
Ingredients:
- 1 head of romaine lettuce chopped
- 1 (15-oz) can black beans, drained and rinsed
- 1 (11-oz) can corn, drained
- 1 tomato, chopped
- 1 avocado, diced
- ¼ cup chopped cilantro optional
Dressing
- 1 cup mayonnaise
- ½ cup buttermilk
- 2 Tbsp ranch dressing mix
- 2 Tbsp taco seasoning
- 2 Tbsp lime juice
- 1/2 tsp cumin
- 1/4 tsp garlic powder
- 1/4 tsp onion powder
- salt and pepper, to taste
Instructions:
- In a large bowl, toss together romaine lettuce, black beans, corn, tomato, avocado, and cilantro
- In a separate bowl, whisk together mayonnaise, buttermilk, ranch dressing mix, taco seasoning, lime juice, cumin, garlic powder, onion powder, salt, and pepper.
- Pour the desired amount of dressing over salad mixture and toss again.
Notes:
Steph
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I made this and I used a bottle ranch dressing (LiteHouse) and added the other dressing ingredients and it turned out fabulous! Great salad and dressing.
This is a wonderful salad!!!! By having the other vegetables in it makes it so tasty!!! I used the whole packets of Ranch and Taco seasoning in the dressing.
I made this a few evenings ago to have alongside Mexican’ish marinated chicken breasts. We liked it so much we made more chicken, chopped it into the salad ingredients, and have been eating it in the form of lettuce wraps for lunch the last few days. Thank you for this great recipe!
Great salad! I’ve made it a few times. Tonight we’re having it with grilled chicken, beef fajitas, tortillas, and Spanish rice. Yum!
This recipe sounds so good. I am having my sisters over for lunch in a few weeks & I can’t wait o try this recipe out on them. I know they are going to love it. Thank you for sharing it.
Great dressing recipe! Thank you we all loved it!
Excited to try this! Can you share the amounts for the ingredients needed to make the dressing?
It is already listed in the recipe……..
When you call for ranch dressing mix, do you use regular or the buttermilk one? I’ve seen a few of your recipes now where you say this but use buttermilk in it.
This salad is now our family favorite 👍🏻👍🏻. My adult daughter asks me to make this all the time, we really can’t get enough of it.
That is a great looking salad Steph and it must be tried.
Cab you substitute the buttermilk with anything else?