Chicken Salad With Thai-Flavored Dressing

Description

With rotisserie chickens so readily available, it’s easy to buy a pre-roasted bird and pull the meat off the bones for use in recipes that would otherwise likely be too complicated for a weeknight meal. A little shredding and chopping is all it takes to serve up this delicious Thai-flavored chicken salad.

Ingredients

  • 4 cups rotisserie chicken, skinned and boned, meat shredded into bite-sized pieces
  • 2 medium celery ribs, cut into small dice
  • 2 medium green onions, sliced thin
  • chopped honey-roasted peanuts
  • 2 tablespoons lime juice
  • 2 tablespoons Asian fish sauce
  • 1 teaspoon ground ginger
  • 2 teaspoons white sugar
  • ½ teaspoon hot red pepper flakes
  • 2 tablespoons minced fresh cilantro leaves
  • 2 tablespoons chopped fresh mint leaves
  • Boston lettuce
  • sliced cucumbers
  • grated carrots
  • chopped honey-roasted peanuts

Instructions

  1. In a medium bowl
  2. mix chicken
  3. celery
  4. green onions and peanuts. In a small bowl
  5. whisk lime juice
  6. fish sauce
  7. ginger
  8. sugar
  9. red pepper
  10. cilantro and mint
  11. plus 2 Tbs. water.
  12. Toss dressing with chicken mixture and serve on a bed of Boston lettuce with the suggested accompaniments.

Servings: 4

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