Chinese Chicken Salad Recipe with Home-made Sesame Dressing
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Your Nugget of Nutritional Info for this post:
Leafy Chicory "Radicchio" grabs center stage in this vitamin packed, fiber rich, mineral & nutrient loaded dish. Not a tiny cabbage, but a "chicory", it contains polysaccharides called:inulin, which regulate blood sugar levels naturally.
Radicchio keeps the digestive track healthy & in good working order, too, cleaning the blood, as it goes. Think of it as a natural, brillo pad..;)
It almost tastes like one, adding a bitter, peppery bite to any salad.
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All the Ingredients:
Ingredients for Sesame dressing:
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Ingredients
- 2-3 hearts romaine, TIP: iceberg can be substituted
- 1 head radicchio
- 2-4 chicken breasts, plan on: 1 breast per salad
- 2-4 TBSP. toasted sesame seed oil
- ¼ cup white wine vinegar - rice vinegar is better, but harder to find, check the Asian aisle, first
- 2-3 TBSP. honey
- ¼ cup low-sodium soy sauce
- Handful cilantro
- 1 cup veggie oil
- 1-2 TBSP. olive oil, to fry breasts
- 1 bunch chives, TIP: tops of green onions can be substituted
- 8 oz. can mandarin orange slices, drained
- 1 package Fresh Gourmet Ginger-Garlic Wonton Crisps, or equivalent
- 1-2 cups broccoli florets
- 1 cup sugar snap peas
- 1 cup macadamias or nuts of choice, pine nuts are a good alternative for those with nuts allergens, but check with your doctor first!
- 2 carrots
- ¼ cup coconut, shredded
How to Do It:
- Let's begin with the dressing: grab a mixing bowl and pour in veggie oil.
- Add soy sauce.
- Add vinegar.
- Add honey. (TIP: if honey is cold, a quick blast in the microwave will get that Lil Bear flowing again.)
- Add sesame oil incrementally. Start with 1 TBSP. and adjust to desired taste.
- Add chopped cilantro.
- Stir vigorously, and funnel blend into cruet--shaking as needed later.
- Chicken o'clock. Breasts can be marinated in a lil sesame oil overnight, or go right from the package to the pan. If you DO marinate, be sure to remove excess marinade before cooking, as the flashpoint to sesame oil is considerably higher than olive oil.
- Let rest at least 5 minutes, and pull apart by hand. Put in refrigerator to chill. Go ahead and blanch your broccoli, pat dry & place in refrigerator to chill, as well.
- On to the salad part of the program!
- Chop lettuce. I like to spin the head in quarter revolutions, and slice off most of the ribs, usually. Put into mixing bowl.
- Rip radicchio into bite-size pieces, add to bowl.
- Chop chives, and add, too.
- Grate carrots, and add to bowl.
- Sprinkle coconut shreds into mix, and toss well.
- Place mixture on plates. This is the base of the salad.
- Remove string from snap peas, chop into thirds, and add to base.
- Add broccoli florets.
- Add mandarin orange slices.
- Add chicken pieces.
- Top with macadamias or nuts of choice (pine nuts are a good substitute for those with nut allergies)
- Sprinkle crispy wontons.
- Drizzle dressing, and voila. There it is there then. :)
Ta-Da!
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Comments
AUTHORRight on, Michelle. (or, as I like to say: right arm...left arm...:) And you can substitute most any nut or sprinkle to suit your taste--all the recipes, really, as we chefs know!
You are very nice to take the time to say. :)
I'm not much of a Chinese Food eater, but this recipe wants me to try making some. As usual your photos are astonishing and the instructions are very detailed and clear. I will bookmark this recipe. Voted up and across.
CharronsChatter, that's funny you mention doing a quick n' easy hub because I have a draft of a chinese chicken salad hub that I was going to post, actually a 15-minute recipe, but when I saw your hub I was like hmmm, not sure my salad could go up against your delicious-looking, one. LOL. But, I may still do the quick and easy recipe version. Thanks for the encouragement (-;
- AUTHOR
That time frame "looks" great to me! Career Mommy, you must post your quick an' easy version...there's much to be said for shortcuts and tips. :)
This looks great! We're having Chinese Chicken Salad this week, however, I'm making the 5 minute version (-:
Good, if these are the kind of articles you write when you watch chef shows, keep it up!
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Thanks, @Kathryn Stratford! (Heart) Can you tell I watch...er..a few cooking shows? When's Master Chef going to start already!! That's what I want to know...I need my TV chefs! ;)
This is a fabulous looking recipe! I love how well you display everything. I am going to share this.
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