Thai Chicken Salad

Submitted by mersaydees

"From Thai Cooking Made Easy by Wei-Chuan Cooking School. I just love this simple recipe and hope that you do, too. The Peanut Sauce may also be used as a dipping sauce for other purposes; here, it goes great with chicken salad."

 

• Ready In: 45mins
• Ingredients: 16
• Serves: 2

ingredients

• Peanut Sauce

• 1 teaspoon masaman curry paste
• 2 tablespoons fish sauce
• 2 tablespoons peanut butter
• 3 tablespoons tamarind juice
• 3 tablespoons sugar
• 1 teaspoon paprika
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 2 cups coconut milk
• 4 tablespoons peanuts, crushed

• Salad

• 1⁄4 lb boneless chicken breast (115g)
• 1 egg, hard-boiled and cut in pieces
• 4 leaves lettuce, cut in pieces
• 1⁄4 cucumber, sliced
• 1⁄4 carrot, sliced
• 1⁄2 tomatoes, sliced
• 1⁄4 cup onion, shredded

directions

1. Peanut Sauce:

2. Add all Peanut Sauce ingredients to heavy duty sauce pan and bring to the boil. Stir 15 minutes on medium heat until reduced to 1 ½ cups. Set aside to cool while you prepare the salad.

3. Salad:

4. Add enough water to medium-sized saucepan to cover chicken and bring to the boil. Add chicken and cook fro 15 minutes. Remove and set aside to cool. Once cool, shred.
5. Compose chicken shreds, egg, lettuce, cucumber, carrot, tomato and shredded onion on plate.
6. Drizzle over the peanut sauce and serve.

Reviews

[Tisme]

This made for a lovely dinner on a very warm Australian night.<br/>I made nearly almost to the origninal recipe, my problem being I could not fine tamarind so I used lemon juice instead, which worked well although it did tend to seperate and so I had to blitz it a bit to get it back to a normal sauce (the blitzing worked well)<br/>But in the end it worked well, and was enjoyed by all.

 

[Pesto lover]

This is a wonderful salad, especially for a hot evening. We all enjoyed this very much. I will make it again. Thanks for sharing the recipe.

 

[evelynathens]

We really enjoyed this recipe. To make it easier, I just shredded store-bought rotisserie chicken. The sauce is divine!

 

[rpgaymer]

Awesome recipe. It deserves 5 stars for that incredible sauce alone! I did change things around though- only because I wanted to make the dish into a Thai bento bowl. I left out the tomatoes and eggs, and added some brown rice instead. Also, instead of boiling the chicken, I diced 2 breasts and stir-fried the pieces in a bit of peanut oil. the chicken was great, but I think fried tofu would taste awesome in this sauce as well.. Thanks for sharing. [Reviewed for PLEASE REVIEW MY RECIPE]