Texas Roadhouse Salad Calories: Which are the Healthiest Choices?
Texas Roadhouse is well-known for its southern style dishes and freshest hand-cut beef and pork. But for health-conscious fans of this restaurant, the good news is that they do not need to shy away from the restaurant’s good foods altogether because Texas Roadhouse offers one of the best-tasting and healthiest salads around. Here are the Texas Roadhouse salad calories and nutritional information for your guidance.
Grilled Chicken Salad
The first salad on the list is the Grilled Chicken Salad. One meal-size serving of Grilled Chicken Salad has 410 calories, 14 g carbs, 15 g fat, and 50 g protein. It has crisp cold greens, strips of grilled chicken, bacon, jack cheese, egg, red onions, tomato, and croutons.
For calorie-conscious folks, you can opt to have your order without the croutons and only half the amount of cheese. This will provide fewer calories and fat with almost the same protein content. This gives you a healthier salad with only 285 calories, 4.5 g carbs, 7.5 g fat, and 45.5 g protein.
Chicken Caesar Salad
This order has tender strips of grilled chicken tossed with crisp hearts of Romaine lettuce, fresh parmesan cheese, made-from-scratch croutons, and zesty Caesar dressing. This salad has received favorable reviews all over the net. It is also very healthy with 308 calories, 17 g carbs, 12 g fat, and 33 g protein.
One of the sources of fat and carbs is the zesty Caesar dressing, with mayonnaise as one of its ingredients. Without the bacon and egg, this salad has less fat content than most of the salads in the menu. The cheese and croutons are also optional for people on a limited-carbohydrate diet.
Chicken Critter® Salad
The Chicken Critter® Salad is another favorite with hot crispy strips of chicken piled high on a bed of cold greens. It also has jack and cheddar cheese with tomatoes, hard-boiled eggs, and bacon. One serving of this salad contains 670 calories, 19.8 g carbs, 50.6 g fat, and 35.1 g protein.
People following a diet should be quite careful with this menu item. Even if it is one of the favorites, the Chicken Critter® Salad is loaded with fat because of the eggs, bacon, and cheeses. It also has the highest calorie content.
House Salad
The House Salad is the lightest salad with fresh greens, including iceberg lettuce, raw red cabbage, and Romaine lettuce with tomato and hard-boiled egg. Like the other salads, the cheddar cheese and made-from-scratch croutons are optional too. The option to order without the croutons and cheese is perfect for dieters. A serving of the House Salad, without the croutons and cheese, contains only 121 calories, 7.7 g carbs, 4.6 g fat, and 8.7 g protein. This salad is the lightest one available from Texas Roadhouse.
Caesar Salad
The last salad on the list is the Caesar Salad; the version without the grilled chicken. With crisp hearts of Romaine lettuce, this salad is tossed together with the special zesty Caesar dressing, fresh parmesan cheese and made-from-scratch croutons. It has 294 calories, 14 g carbs, 23 g fat, and 7 g protein.
Without the chicken, this salad has the least amount of protein at only 7 g. Due to the Caesar dressing and parmesan cheese, the fat content is also a bit high. Low in protein but full of fats, it is a better decision for dieters to opt for the House Salad instead of having this meatless Caesar salad.
Conclusion
In summary, the menu offers five salads for those who want to stick with lighter meals and their vegetables. Even if you are on a weight loss diet, you can still enjoy the fresh salads without the guilt. In the whole, however, the menu is intended for an occasional festive treat with its hefty steaks and other mouth-watering offerings loaded with calories and fats. Health-conscious folks may not want to eat at Texas Roadhouse every day. That may be the reason for not posting the nutritional information at their official website.
As a final note, these Roadhouse Texas salads are served with the choice of made-from-scratch dressings like Ranch, Low Fat Ranch, Honey Mustard, Italian, Thousand Island, or Bleu Cheese. Furthermore, all salads are served with fresh baked rolls.
References
https://www.mahalo.com/texas-roadhouse-nutritional-information
https://www.mahalo.com/texas-roadhouse-menu
https://www.myfitnesspal.com/nutrition-facts-calories/texas-roadhouse
https://www.sparkpeople.com/calories-in.asp?food=texas+roadhouse+side+ceaser+salad
