Chinese coconut chicken salad
Chinese coconut chicken salad
Chinese chicken salad? Are you kidding? Nobody has eaten that since 1995 You may snicker, you may laugh, you may give your chicken. a “coconut, soy, rice vinegar” bath, then toss with the salad and the dressing from below, make some crispy little wontons and who is gonna know? FARM TIP #3 Seasoned rice vinegar (60%) + soy sauce (40%) = supper yummie
Ingredients
- Add, chilis, ginger, and garlic= even super yummier
- Add coconut milk= creamy super yummier
- Chicken, any part, really, i like thighs, because they
- A) are super cheap
- B) are very moist
- But you use any part of the bird that you like.
- In a pot to fit your chicken bits, add:
- well, let’s say 1/2 can of coconut milk, 1/8 cup of soy sauce, and 3/4 cup rice vinegar and a
- squirt of sriracha, but the quantities, really does not matter much.
- MORE vinegar than SOY. is really the only operative word here.
- Now cook your chicken in the above liquid until done. Cool and shred.
- Salad greens any type: napa cabbage, endive, arugula, Romain, whatever you like
- Other veggies, radishes, corn, cucumber, bell peppers
- Wonton wrappers: cut into ribbons and deep fried until just browned
- black sesame seeds
- red pickled ginger (optional)
- Dressing:
- 3 Tablespoons seasoned rice vinegar
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons sesame oil
- 2 tablespoons other non flavored oil (grape seed, canola, vegetable)
- ginger and garlic, grated, to taste
- touch of tamarind paste (which is sticky and sour and sweet and super delish, but you can substitute with splash of agave and lime juice)
- Toss the salad greens with the dressing, then add chicken, any vegetables, sesame seeds, and crispy wontons
Instructions