Chinese chicken salad · I’m a food blog

If you are looking for a refreshing, full, aromatic chicken salad, this salad is for you.

Fresh, crisp and cabbage salad, sweet carrots, succulent oranges, chicken, herbs and crunchy almonds are thrown with a suspicion suspicion, humami. No sad salads here! And the best part is that this is a salad that you can make before or the preparation of the table, offering salad days in a moment.

Now that it is summer, I live on salads all day, every day. I have my own Mandy/Sweetgreen that happens at home with different containers (glass, of course) of different leaves, vegetables and toppings prepared. At least once a week I ask Mike if he wants to “order” a salad from me, but every time the answer was not, which is very sad for me, because how will I live my salad bar dreams?!

I like the salad

At least I have a very healthy love for salad, so I can make daily salads for me. I am not sure why, but I like to have everything separately and then make salads at the minute, instead of ready to eat in a container. But again, sometimes, with the rare occasions when I do not finish my salad and turn it into a container in the refrigerator for the next day, in a way it tastes better?

In my opinion, both are good: fresh salads and the preparation of the table. Someone should start a salad company where they sell both types. This salad happens to be one that has an amazing taste in both directions. Even when you prepare it at the table and the Wonton bands become a little humid, add a bit of extra -flavored texture. Of course, if you are a person to prepare the expert salad table, you have those small containers on the dressing side and crisping toppings, so you don’t have to win.

What is Chinese chicken salad?

Anyway, back to this salad, which we call Chinese chicken salad, even if they are Chinese and I have no idea why everyone on the Internet calls it. However, I roll. The Chinese chicken salad is essentially a green salad with chicken leaves and a ginger dressing. Typically, there are crispy things, such as deep roasted noodles, fried strips, sliced ​​almonds and fried sesame seeds. Usually, there are a lot of herbs and sometimes mandarin oranges. It is a refreshing salad, full of heart and it is indeed, very good! A kind of reminiscent of a chinese chicken dish, but also not. Indeed, I am quite sure that it is called Chinese chicken salad, because it has been popularized in this way, such as Cheesecake Factory and PF Chang’s. Recalling origins aside, this salad is a holder in my regular salad rotation.

How to do Chinese chicken salad

Like all salads, this takes some preparation. If you are not a person who finds the washing and cutting of vegetables a zen activity, in any case, buy those mixtures of prepared cabbage or minced carrots. If you think the vegetable cutting is fun (I am a monster) then for this salad you must:

1. Prepare the vegetables: Wash, dry and chop the salad; Wash, dry and chop the cabbage; Peel, wash, dry and julienne carrots; Wash, dry and sliced ​​the green onion; Wash, dry and chop cilantro; and drain (or peel) the mandarin oranges.
2. Make the chicken: This salad begs for the remaining chicken. Kiss any extra chicks you could have or if you need to prepare some chicken breasts, use your access recipe or try the air.
3. Make crisp pieces: You can opt to buy crunchy noodle at the store or you can do them at home. If you do them at home, you can use wonton packs that you cut or egg noodles. For both, heat about one centimeter of neutral oil in a small medium-high heat. When the oil is hot and shiny, add a small amount of wonton packs or egg noodles and fry to gold and crisp. They will be made quite quickly. Move and turn it as needed, and after a minute or two, remove from the oil, drain and cool.
4. Do the bandage: In a bowl, beat the soy sauce, rice vinegar, fried sesame oil, a bit of neutral oil, a note of sugar, chopped ginger and garlic. Taste and adjust if needed.
5. Assemble: Add the chopped greenery, carrot, herbs and chicken (and oranges if used) in a bowl. Add the dressing and throw well.
6. Enjoy -You: Finish the salad, adding it with crunchy pieces and enjoying it!

Chinese chicken salad ingredients

Green – shredded salad, cabbage and carrots are most of this salad. Personally, I love a mixture of green and red cabbage and shredded Romania. I also fell in love with Savoy Raw cabbage recently – it’s a little younger and sweeter and so, so good. So many cabbage, so little time.

Herbs – a mixture of thin sliced ​​and chopped green onion adds a little fresh herbs.

Orange – it’s something I will put on if we have it at home, but not something I would go out and buy. But when you have them, add some sweet succulents that make this salad elite.

Chicken – any kind of minced chicken works for this salad. Debris or freshly cooked, everything is fine. For me, I like salads that have proteins in them, so when I can, I almost always double the amount of protein required in a salad. Fortunately, we eat a lot of chickens, so we almost always have some handy.

Crocant bites – probably the best part of any salad, crispy pieces are what keeps it interesting. I certainly think that the thin sliced ​​almonds are a necessity. I like the thin thin ones with the skin onFor some reason, they are much more delicate and crispy. For the other crunchy parts, I like to go either with Wonton strips fried by the house, or with homemade eggs. They are so super fast and easy to do at home. Or, you can buy them – they are either with salad toppers or in the Asian aisle in a bag – they are packaged to look like chips.

Dressing – the dressing for this salad is quite simple; The only thing that is a little annoying is to finely reduce garlic and ginger. Normally, I am a huge fan of using garlic and granulated ginger, but for this dressing, fresh is what you need. To the garlic and freshly chopped ginger, we will add soy sauce, rice vinegar, fried sesame oil, a sugar note and a little neutral oil.

Chinese dressing for chicken salad

This dressing is zingy and full of aroma. It is super simple to do and takes all the ingredients in this salad and makes them sing. Typically, Chinese chicken dressing is a sesame oil, ginger and ginger resistance. It is incredibly captivating and will make you eat so much salad, in a good way.

The best type of chicken for salad

The remaining chicken is the best! I know a lot of people who actually buy a rotating chicken and snatch this, but we usually only get your skin thighs. I will leather and I debut them (and I will save all this to make chicks) and simply boil and then grind them. Chicken thighs are truly the most aromatic part of a chicken, but any kind of cooked, minced. For this special salad, I made the chicken breast in an arms in a gingry stock, garlic and they proved super succulent.

What are the crunchy Chinese chicken salad?

The crunchy bites vary, but they are usually fried strips, slicered almonds or crunchy chow mein noodles. For us, we prefer a combination of crunchy wonton and almond bands. It is very easy to do them at home and you don’t need much oil. If you do not want to add an additional step, you can grab a frying noodle bag at the food store in the Asian corridor. It looks like golden short noodles in a bag, a kind of chips, but noodles.

How to prepare the Chinese chicken salad for the week

This salad is excellent for the preparation of the table, because you can do all the preparation on Sunday, pack everything and have salad during the week. The key is to pack it as if it were wrapping salad kits in the grocery store. All the green things go together, the dressing goes to a small cup, and the crunchy pieces are in a container, ready to continue at the end. Help you if you have the right containers. I love these guys because they dressed in the crunchy pieces And in terms of vegetables, you can use any container you have at hand. It is best if you put the chicken in a separate container, so that it does not wander the vegetables too much, but it is not absolutely necessary.

What to serve with Chinese chicken salad

I think this salad is a meal itself, but if you want to have a salad party, try some of them:

That’s it, happy salad. And please, let me know if you like to do with your salad at home!
Xoxo Steph