Vietnamese Crunchy Chicken Salad Food

VIETNAMESE CHICKEN SALAD

Steps:

• Dressing: Shake Dressing ingredients in a jar. Set aside 10 minutes to let flavours meld.
• Toss: Place all Salad ingredients in a very large bowl. Pour over half the Dressing and toss well. Set aside 5 minutes (veg will soften slightly, making it more "slaw-like").
• Toss again: Just before serving, toss again then add most of the remaining Dressing. Taste then add more Dressing if you want.
• Serve sprinkled with lots of peanuts! (Note 6)

VIETNAMESE CRUNCHY CHICKEN SALAD

Steps:

• In a large bowl, mix the first 7 ingredients; add chicken and toss to coat. Refrigerate, covered, 30 minutes. In a small bowl, whisk dressing ingredients., In a large skillet over medium-high heat, stir-fry half the chicken mixture for 4-5 minutes or until no longer pink. Remove from pan; repeat with remaining chicken. Cool slightly., In a large bowl, combine cabbage, cilantro, carrots and chicken; toss to combine. Add peanuts and dressing; toss to coat. Serve immediately.

CRUNCHY VIETNAMESE CHICKEN SALAD

Steps:

• Stir together the sugar, fish sauce, lime juice, vinegar, water, chile and garlic until the sugar dissolves. Let stand for about 5 minutes.
• In a small saucepan, heat the oil until shimmering. Add the shallots and cook over med.-high to high heat, stirring, until golden (don't let them burn!) - about 4 minutes or so. Drain on paper towels and sprinkle with salt. Let cool.
• In a big bowl, toss the cabbage, carrots, onion, cilantro, mint and chicken.
• Add the olive oil and dressing (the sugar, fish sauce, etc -- combination) and toss.
• Sprinkle with the peanuts and shallots. Serve with the lime wedges.
• Enjoy!

VIETNAMESE CHICKEN SALAD

Steps:

• Thinly slice the grilled chicken breast. Set aside.
• In a small bowl, whisk together the dressing ingredients until well combined. Set aside.
• In a medium bowl, toss together cabbage, mint and cilantro. Place on a large platter. Top cabbage mixture with the onion, peppers, cucumber, carrots, and chicken. Drizzle with reserved dressing, garnish with peanuts and cilantro sprigs, and serve.

CRUNCHY CHICKEN SALAD

Steps:

• Half fill a medium wok or deep frying pan with water, sprinkle in half of the fish sauce and bring to the boil. Turn down the heat to a simmer, lower the chicken into the water and cover the pan with a lid. Simmer for 10 minutes until the chicken is cooked through. Lift the chicken out of the water and leave until cool enough to handle.
• Meanwhile, mix the remaining fish sauce in a large bowl with the lime juice, sugar, pepper and chopped chilli. Tip in the cabbage, carrots and onion. Mix well.
• Shred the chicken and toss it into the salad with the herbs. Mix again, cover and leave to marinate in the fridge for at least 2 hours (overnight is ideal).
• To make the nuoc cham sauce, pound the garlic, chillies and caster sugar to a paste using a pestle and mortar. Mix in the fish sauce, vinegar and 6 tbsp water. (It will keep for up to 4 days in the fridge.)
• To serve, toss the salad, taste and add more sugar, if you like. Scatter mint leaves on each plates, pile the salad on top and sprinkle with peanuts. Serve with individual bowls of nuoc cham sauce to pour over.

AWESOME VIETNAMESE CHICKEN SALAD

Steps:

• Tips & Sugesstions:.
• Peanuts: In a mortar and pestle, slightly crush the peanuts ( visible pieces of peanuts for a crunchy texture).
• Mushroom seasoning salt brings a very distinct, earthy flavor to the sauce. You can find it at gourmet specialty stores or in most Korean markets.
• Frying onions is quite easy. You have to chop the onion first, and then heat about 1 inch of canola oil in a small skillet. Fry the onion in the hot oil, stirring frequently to prevent the onion from burning until the color is evenly golden brown. Drain the oil on paper towels. Set aside, if you want to make much more at once, you can do it and then keep in a box to use for next time.
• Pickles Daikon and Carrot is great for this salad, so if you have time, please make those pickles ready, you can use them for many different kind of foods.
• Daikon (white radish) is an Asian turnip that looks like a large white carrot. This root is perfect for making broth for the natural sweetness it provides. Discard the root when the broth is ready.
• Vietnamese mint has a very different flavor from regular mint, the taste is much better too. It also has darker vein markings on the leaves.
• Rau ram and ngo gai are Vietnamese coriander leaves, you can find them at the Asian market very easy in Vietnamese grocery store.
• To prevent the herbs from darkening, chop them at the very last minute, toss them into the salad and serve immediately.
• Now you have everything you need, are you sure? Okay! Let's start!
• Preparing the chicken: Pour 2 litres of water into a pot and boil then add chicken breasts, 3 tablespoons salt, ginger, white onion, if you could add anymore vegetables which have unami flavor like carrot, leeks, turnips etc...that would be perfect (don't worry if you don't have) cook until the chickens are well done.
• Remove the whole chickens from the pot. Let them cool a bit until you can handle them without discomfort and then sliced into thin 5 cm lengths.
• To avoid chicken meat of the fishy taste, wash with warm water, salt and then boil the water before add chicken into the pot.
• Salad sauce: In a bowl, combine: Chili paste: 1 tablespoon (option). Horn pepper or red hot chilli scrushed (to have red color for the sauce). 4 tablespoons chunk rock sugar. 1 tablespoons rice wine vinegar. Lime juice: 4 tablespoons. Fish sauce: 6 tablespoons. 3 Garlic clove finely minced. Hot water: 2 cups. Mix well, and then test if the salinity, light, sour, sweet, taste characteristics are stable and moderate.
• This is not easy to make this sauce. Even with local people.
• Here i will tell you some ways to make a perfect one.
• 1) The best way to do is make a glass of lemonade with sweet taste, add minced garlic, red hot chilli scrushed mixed into the lemonade. Then slowly pour the fish sauce in the salad sauce also test the taste at the same time until it tasted sweet, bitterness, sour, salty.
• 2) You may need follow this second way if this is the first time you make the salad sauce ( 30gr sour juice ( lemon, vinegar), 30gr sugar, 30gr fish sauce, 100gr warm water) galic minced, red hot chilli scrushed.
• If you don't have vinegar, just add more lemon juice.
• It will be more simple for you at the next time, when you got used to it, but need to remember an important tip that always put galic minced, red hot chilli scrushed in the lemonade first, then pour fish sauce on later. So after you are done, galic, chilli will float on and have a beautiful look. If you put the galic minced, red hot chilli scrushed on first, then pour vinegar, lemonade into later? The garlic and chilli will sink to the bottom.
• Dosage depends on individual taste, try to adjust it appropriate as your own taste. The way you feel the best.
• Vegetable: Carrot and Daikon (white radish) grated (mixed with 1 / 2 teaspoon salt, squeeze by hand in 1 minute), then washed out the salt, squeezed them dry, set aside carrot and Daikon.
• In a large bowl, combine: Peanut oil or olive oil is ok: 6 tablespoons. Fried yellow onions (see tips), not too browned: 3 tablespoons. Red onion, thinly sliced lengthwise: 1 small. Lime: 4 needed to make 4 to 6 tablespoons of freshly squeezed lime juice. Seedless cucumber: 1/2. Carrots and Daikon ( squeezed dried). Daikon turnip, peeled and half of the daikon shredded: 1. Asia cabbage, finely shredded: 2 cups. Bell pepper: 3 ( mix colors), use half of each only ( Seedless). Bean sprouts: 2 cups. Purple cabbage ( finely shredded): 1 cup. 5 lime leaves ( Julienne). 3 tablespoons Vietnamese coriander - Rau Ram (chopped). Mix well.
• When you're ready to serve: Add all the chopped herbs and seeds in the list bellow into the mixed vegetable bow above:.
• Vietnamese mint leaves, chopped: 3 tablespoon.
• Celery leaves: 2 sprigs, thinly sliced celery.
• Ngò gai : 3 sprigs, chopped.
• Fresh coriander (cilantro) leaves, finely chopped: 1/2 cup.
• Thai basil, chopped: 3 tablespoons.
• Sesame seeds: 2 tablespoons.
• Chopped roasted peanuts: 1/2 cup.
• Pour salad sauce slowly into the mixed vegetable bow, not pour all the sauce, please, you have to check the salinity, light, sour, sweet, taste characteristics again and make sure everything are ok. Toss well, more salt (if needed) and Chilli( if you want).
• Dressing and topping:.In a larger plate, use hand or clamp, chopsticks, pour the salad into it and sprinkle the peanuts around. Set a few sprigs of celery leaves, fresh coriander (cilantro) leaves, on top.
• Is the salad setting on a white plate and you still want it to have great look? Just trim a horn chilli or a large tomato to shape it become a flower, plug it on top of the salad.
• If you don't have enough vegetable? Try to make chicken salad in a simple way, the previous artice that I wrote.
• Vietnamese Chicken Salad is a great salad and for me it takes 35 to 40 minutes to complete. You may feel it look quite difficult, but it's really simple. Be patience and don't give up.
• Eat with chopsticks and enjoy!

VIETNAMESE CHICKEN SALAD

Steps:

• Make chicken and vegetables for salad: Stir together lime juice, garlic, ginger, chiles, 2 teaspoons salt, and 1/2 teaspoon pepper, then rub all over chicken, inside and out. Marinate, covered, at room temperature while cooking vegetables.
• Thinly slice cabbage with slicer. Cut carrots into thin matchsticks (1/8 inch) with a knife. Cook vegetables in a large pot of salted boiling water (2 tablespoons salt for 6 quarts water) until crisp-tender, 4 to 5 minutes. Transfer to a large sieve or colander with a slotted spoon (return water to a boil) and rinse under cold water to stop cooking. Drain well.
• Add sugar to boiling water, then add chicken with marinade and cook, covered, 15 minutes. Remove from heat and let chicken stand in cooking liquid, covered, 30 minutes. Carefully transfer chicken with tongs to a cutting board and let stand until cool enough to handle. Coarsely shred meat (and skin if desired), transferring to a large bowl.
• Make dressing while chicken cools:
• Bring fish sauce and brown sugar to a simmer in a small saucepan, stirring until sugar has dissolved. Blend mixture in a blender along with chiles, ginger, and garlic (use caution when blending hot liquids). Stir in lime juice.
• Assemble salad:
• Toss vegetables with half of dressing and chicken with remainder. Serve chicken over vegetables and sprinkle with peanuts, basil, and mint. Serve at room temperature or chilled.
• Cooks' notes:
• •Chicken can be marinated up to 1 hour.
• •Chicken and vegetables can be cooked 1 day ahead. Chill separately (covered once cool).
• •Dressing can be made 1 day ahead and chilled in an airtight container.