Peanut Chicken Soba Salad

Submitted by viking

"A tasty recipe from Cooking Light."

 

• Ready In: 35mins
• Ingredients: 17
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 2 cups water
• 2 boneless skinless chicken breast halves
• 4 black peppercorns
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 tablespoon rice vinegar
• 2 tablespoons peanut oil
• 2 teaspoons low sodium soy sauce
• 1 teaspoon honey
• 1 teaspoon chili-garlic sauce (such as Lee Kum Kee)
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups cooked soba noodles (about 4 oz. uncooked)
• 1 cup grated carrot
• 1⁄2 cup thinly sliced green onion
• 1⁄4 cup minced red onion
• 1⁄4 cup chopped fresh basil
• 4 teaspoons chopped dry-roasted unsalted peanuts
• lime wedge (optional)

directions

1. Combine first 4 ingredients in a medium saucepan; bring to a boil.
2. Cover, remove from heat, and let stand 15 minutes or until chicken is done.
3. Remove chicken from pan, and discard peppercorns, bay leaf, and cooking liquid.
4. Shred chicken, place in a large bowl.
5. Combine vinegar and next 5 ingredients (vinegar through salt), stirring with a whisk.
6. Pour over chicken, let stand 5 minutes.
7. Add soba noodles and the next 4 ingredients (noodles through chopped basil) to chicken mixture, and toss well.
8. Sprinkle with peanuts and garnish with lime slices if desired.

Reviews

[vholland]

Absolutely delicious! Used 1 T canola oil and 1 T sesame oil, a little extra soy and chili sauce, and left out the salt. I just finished a bowl of it for lunch and even though I'm stuffed, I wish I had packed more. Yum! Thanks for posting this, Viking!

 

[ratherbeswimmin]

An excellent recipe that produced a very flavorful and hearty chicken salad. I cooked the chicken the night before to make preparation a little easier. I had to use salted peanuts because I really dislike the taste of unsalted but that is the only change I made. My husband thought it was delicious as well. Thanks for posting this Cooking Light recipe.