Thai style BBQ chicken salad

I made up a salad last weekend that was a happy accident…you know the kind in the kitchen where you make it up as you go but it’s FAB and you know you’ll do it again. That was this one! So on the go that I don’t even have lots of step my step photos…apologies!

Thai style BBQ chicken salad

1 BBQ chook (meat shredded)
1 box mixed green lettuce leaves
1 bunch coriander (roughly chopped)
1 bunch mint (roughly chopped)
1 carrot (thinly sliced on the mandolin)
1 cucumber (thinly sliced on the mandolin)
100 grams slivered almonds (toasted)
1/2 red onion (thinly sliced on the mandolin)

Dressing

1/2 cup olive oil
1 tablespoon soy sauce
2 teaspoons caster sugar
5 drops sesame oil
Juice of 1 lemon
1 garlic clove (grated/finely minced)
1 knob ginger (grated/finely minced)

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1. Shred all the meat from a BBQ chook and set aside

2. Toast the slivered almonds in a hot pan keeping them moving so they don’t burn. This usually takes me about 3-5 minutes and set aside

3. On a mandolin (or if you don’t have one, just thinly slice) the cucumber, red onion and carrot and throw into a big mixing bowl

4. Roughly chop the mint and coriander and add in as well as the mixed green lettuce

5. Throw in the chicken and roasted almonds

6. To make the dressing add into a jar the olive oil, sesame oil, grated ginger and garlic, soy sauce, lemon juice and some pepper to taste…whack on the lid and give a big shake. Pour over the salad and toss well

This was a really tasty mix of fresh favours from the herbs, the crunch from the carraot & cucumber and almonds and the soft shredded chicken that took up all the flavour of the dressing

Enjoy!

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Comments

  1. Mmmm yum!

  2. Sounds delicious!

  3. Yum diggity! Totally giving this one a go. x

  4. A hundred points to people who put coriander and mint in salads. Yum!

  5. Yes please!

  6. looks and sounds great thanks beth!
    love m:)X

  7. So simple and so good! Really hit the spot after a long day and the whole family happily ate it, that never happens!

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