Fresh and light, this salad is perfect for hot summer nights and refreshing after the indulgence of the festive season. Using your steam oven results in beautifully moist chicken.
Function: FullSteam (100% steam)
Asian Steamed Chicken Salad Cups
Ingredients
2 large chicken breast fillets (approx. 500g)
Marinade
1/4 cup light soy sauce
1 tbsp sesame oil
1 tbsp green ginger, grated
Salad
1/4 small red cabbage, finely shredded
1 large carrot, cut into julienne strips
4 spring onions, cut into 5cm lengths then into fine strips
1/2 continental cucumber, halved, seeds removed then finely sliced
1 cup mint leaves
1 cup coriander leaves
Dressing
1/2 cup oil
1/3 cup light soy
1/3 cup rice wine vinegar
2-3 tsps castor sugar
12 gem or baby cos lettuce cups, washed and trimmed, for serving
Mint leaves, extra, for decoration
Coriander leaves, extra, for decoration
2 tbsps toasted sesame seeds
Method
Place the chicken into a snap lock bag with the combined marinade ingredients. Mix well and chill for 2 hours or overnight.
Remove the chicken from the marinade (discard the marinade) and place the chicken onto the small perforated tray. Steam at 100°C for 12-14 minutes or until the chicken is cooked through. Allow the chicken to cool thoroughly then shred the chicken using 2 forks to pull the chicken into strands. Refrigerate until required.
Place the salad ingredients into a bowl with the chicken and toss lightly to combine. In a jar, combine the dressing ingredients and shake well. Drizzle the dressing onto the salad and toss lightly. Spoon the salad evenly into the lettuce cups then sprinkle over the extra mint, coriander and sesame seeds. Serve immediately.
Notes
For a little extra zing add some finely chopped chilli to the salad ingredients.
Authors Bio
As an experienced home economist and Food Designer Trish has worked over the span of her career in the food and home appliance industry as a demonstrator, teacher, recipe developer and food stylist. For more than 20 years she worked for and later managed the test kitchen for a large FMCG company working on some of Australia’s most trusted and iconic food brands, developing recipes and usages for their products as well as styling mouth watering images for cookbooks and websites. She has also appeared regularly as a brand ambassador on a number of well loved television cooking shows.