Use-Your-Noodle Chicken Salad

Submitted by evelynathens

"Delicious and healthy."

 

• Ready In: 30mins
• Ingredients: 16
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• Dressing

• 1⁄2 cup salad oil or 1/2 cup olive oil
• 1⁄4 cup cider vinegar
• 1⁄4 cup honey
• 1 tablespoon soya sauce
• 1⁄2 teaspoon mustard powder
• 1 garlic clove
• salt
• 1⁄2 teaspoon of your favourite curry powder
• 1⁄4 teaspoon sambal oelek (optional)

• Salad

• 2 (3 ounce) packages ramen noodles, your favourite flavour, broken into small pieces
• 1 (1 lb) bag frozen green beans, the long skinny kind, cooked till crisp-tender, and cooled
• 1 red pepper, cut into long, thin strips
• 1 cup grated carrots or 1 cup matchstick julienne carrot
• 3 green onions, chopped (both white and tender green part)
• 3 cooked chicken breasts, cut into bite-size pieces (pre-cooked rotisserie chicken is GREAT and easy)

• Garnish

• 1⁄2 cup dry roasted peanuts

directions

1. Zap all the dressing ingredients, including the flavour packet from the ramen noodles, together in a mini-processor/blender.
2. Put all salad ingredients into a big bowl and toss with enough dressing to suit your taste. Taste and adjust seasoning (adding more salt), if necessary. Chill for an hour before serving, or serve at room temperature.
3. Plate chicken salad on four dinner plates and sprinkle with dry-roasted peanuts.

Reviews

[Rita1652]

This was good. I would have liked to have seen this chilled for the flavors to meld. Plus an addition of herbs, like cilantro would have been a nice touch and black pepper would give it more of a kick. I did use the sambel and 1/4 teaspoon did get lost. This need a lot more. Toasting the noodles in some seasme oil would also give it a nice touch. This can easly feed 6. I topped with honey roasted nut. OK I did let it meld and it just did not work. Eat as soon as made is the way to go. Thanks!

 

[MommaEllen]

NIce change of pace for lunch. I sauteed chicken tenders in a little of the dressing (without the sambal oelek, couldn't find any in my area). I also only used about 1/2 pound of the green beans. I loved topping this with the peanuts, I used the unsalted kind. I might add poppy seeds or maybe hot pepper flakes next time, just to change it up a bit. Thank you for the recipe!

 

[Chef Jean]

I good chicken salad, but thought it could have used a little more flavor in the dressing. Also, it turned out to be a bit heavy on the green beans and light on the ramen. I great idea that could use some adjusting.