Cooking light: Quick-n-easy chicken salad recipe

Toss up this simple Thai-style grilled chicken salad in 15 minutes.

It is sweet, salty, spicy and super delicious. Best of all, it can be put together in minutes.

This Thai-inspired salad is for those times when you want to eat light, but don’t want to settle for boring lettuce-tomato-cucumber salads.

Here's how to make Thai-style chicken salad:

Ingredients

• 1 chicken breast, poached or grilled
• 1 large carrot
• 1 cucumber
• 1 onion, sliced
• 1 cup fresh bean sprouts
• 1 bunch lettuce
• 1 sprig mint
• A few sprigs coriander leaves
• 2 tbsp peanut butter
• 2 tbsp sweet chilli sauce
• Juice of half a lime

Method

• Slice the chicken into long strips.
• Wash, dry and tear up the lettuce.
• Peel the carrot and cut into long ribbons with a vegetable peeler.
• Peel the cucumber and cut into long ribbons with a peeler.
• Wash and remove the mint leaves and coriander from the stalks.
• Place the chicken, vegetables and herbs in a large bowl.
• Make the dressing by whisking together the sweet chilli sauce, peanut butter and lime juice. Thin out with a little water if it’s too thick.
• Check for seasoning and add salt if required.
• Pour the dressing over the salad, toss lightly and serve.

Note: To make the salad more substantial, you could add a cup of soaked rice noodles to it.

Lead image used for representational purposes only. Credit: Megan Squire/Creative Commons

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