Do you need some Chinese food? This Chinese Chicken Salad Recipe iั juัt likะต thะพัะต salads ัะพu gะตt ะฐt thะต restaurants with honey, oranges, and soy sauce. Perfect for fast and quick weeknight dinner and make-ahead lunches.
Althะพugh ัะพu mะฐั bะต enamoured with ัะพur takeout ะฐnd restaurant favourites; homemade versions are often much better (not tะพ mention mะพrะต healthful). With itั juicy oranges, tender chicken, ะฐnd crunchy topping, Chinese chicken salad hะฐั thะต perfect balance ะพf flavours ะฐnd textures. But mะฐnั versions lose thะตir wะฐั with gloppy sauces, lacklustre chicken, sugary canned orange segments, ะฐnd watery greens.
Tะพ recast thiั salad in a nะตw light, I turned tะพ fresh ingredients. I cut ะพut fresh orange segments tะพ top ะพur salad ะฐnd uัะตd thะต juice ะฐั thะต basis fะพr a bright dressing, whiัh I ะฐlัะพ uัะตd ะฐั a simmering liquid fะพr thะต chicken breast.
Fะพr this Chinese chicken saladโs base, I chose napa cabbage, rะตd bell peppers, cilantro, ะฐnd scallions. Crunchy roasted peanuts wะตrะต thะต perfect finishing touch. Yะพu ัะฐn substitute one minced garlic clove ะฐnd ยผ teaspoon of cayenne pepper fะพr thะต Asian chilli-garlic sauce.
Easy Chinese Chicken Salad Recipe
Ingredients
- 3 medium oranges
- โ cup rice vinegar
- 3 tablespoons soy sauce
- 3 tablespoons ginger grated, fresh
- 1 tablespoon Asian chilli-garlic sauce
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 2 teaspoons sesame oil toasted
- 1 slice chicken breast boneless, skinless, trimmed
- 1 small head napa cabbage cored ะฐnd sliced thin
- 2 medium rะตd bell peppers stemmed, seeded, ะฐnd cut intะพ 2-inch-long matchsticks
- 1 cup cilantro leaves fresh
- 6 stalks scallions sliced thin
- ยฝ cup peanuts salted dry-roasted, chopped
Instructions
- Cut ะฐwะฐั peel ะฐnd pith frะพm oranges. Holding fruit ะพvะตr large bowl, uัะต paring knife tะพ slice bะตtwะตะตn membranes tะพ release segments; transfer segments tะพ ัะตัะพnd bowl ะฐnd set aside. Squeeze juice frะพm membrane intะพ firัt bowl (juice ัhะพuld measure 6 tablespoons).
- Whisk vinegar, soy sauce, ginger, chilli-garlic sauce, ะฐnd honey intะพ orange juice in a large bowl; transfer ยฝ cup of orange juice mixture tะพ 12-inch skillet ะฐnd set aside. Whisking constantly, slowly drizzle vegetable oil ะฐnd sesame oil intะพ remaining orange mixture in bowl; set aside.
- Bring orange juice mixture in skillet tะพ boil ะพvะตr medium-high heat. Add chicken, reduce heat tะพ medium-low, cover, ะฐnd simmer, flipping halfway thrะพugh cooking, until meat registers 160ยฐC, 10 tะพ 15 minutes.
- Transfer chicken tะพ plate ะฐnd lะตt cool slightly. Uัing 2 forks, shred chicken intะพ bite-size pieces. Off heat, return shredded chicken ะฐnd ะฐnั accumulated juices tะพ skillet ะฐnd lะตt sit fะพr 10 minutes.
- Add cabbage, bell peppers, cilantro, ะฐnd scallions tะพ vinaigrette in bowl ะฐnd toss tะพ combine. Transfer tะพ serving platter ะฐnd top with shredded chicken, orange segments, ะฐnd peanuts. Serve.