Cold Shredded Chicken Salad
On My Chinese Home Kitchen, we have many recipes that use chicken breast as the main ingredient, such as Kung Pao chicken (restaurant- and home-style) and Easy Fried Chicken cutlets. Today we will use chicken breast as the main ingredient again, and present it to you in a new way of cooking, which is the best cold mix cooking for summer. We have a lot of recipes for cold mixed vegetables, and today we have a delicious cold shredded chicken recipe!
Taste: salty and spicy
Equipment
- 1 wok (or saucepan)
- 1 mixing bowl
Ingredients
Main Ingredient:
- 200 g chicken breast 7 ounces
Accessory Ingredients:
- 50 g cucumber 1 ¾ oz by weight
- 1 green onion
- 2 cloves fresh garlic
- 3 er jing tiao chili peppers
Seasonings:
- salt (to taste)
- 1 tsp white sugar
- 1 ½ tsp oyster sauce
- 1 ½ tsp light soy sauce
- 2 tsp Chinese chili powder
- 2 tsp Sichuan peppercorn powder
- ½ tsp sesame oil
- 2 tsp chili oil
- 4 tsp peanut oil, soybean oil, canola oil, vegetable oil, or lard
Instructions
- Cook and shred the chicken breast (see note below).200 g chicken breast
- While the chicken is cooking, shred the cucumber and marinate with a small amount of salt.50 g cucumber, salt (to taste)
- Finely chop the green onion,shallots, garlic, and dried red pepper.
- Add 20ml of oil to the pan. Sauté the green onions, garlic, and dried red peppers until fragrant. Then pour into the container together with the oil.1 green onion, 2 cloves fresh garlic, 3 er jing tiao chili peppers, 4 tsp peanut oil, soybean oil, canola oil, vegetable oil, or lard
- Add the seasonings and the sauteed ingredients in their oil to the shredded chicken and stir well.1 tsp white sugar, 1 1/2 tsp oyster sauce, 1 1/2 tsp light soy sauce, 2 tsp Chinese chili powder, 2 tsp Sichuan peppercorn powder, 1/2 tsp sesame oil, 2 tsp chili oil
- Squeeze the water from the marinated cucumber and stir well with the shredded chicken. Finish.
Notes
- Place the chicken breast in cold water and bring to a boil over high heat. If you're not sure if the chicken breast is cooked, you can insert chopsticks into the chicken breast, and if the water flowing out is pink, it means that its interior is not fully cooked. When the water is white or light yellow, the chicken is cooked.
- If you don't like it too spicy, you can add chili peppers according to your taste.
- There is no exact marinating time for pickled cucumbers because we just use salt to make the cucumbers less watery. When step 3 is over, the cucumbers have been marinated.
- Cut the chicken into strips along the grain of the meat. Of course, you can also tear it into strips by hand.
Nutrition
Calories: 130kcalCarbohydrates: 3gProtein: 11gFat: 8gSaturated Fat: 1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 2gMonounsaturated Fat: 4gTrans Fat: 0.01gCholesterol: 32mgSodium: 263mgPotassium: 249mgFiber: 1gSugar: 2gVitamin A: 450IUVitamin C: 2mgCalcium: 14mgIron: 1mg
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