Chicken salad
Sep. 12th, 2014 04:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceApparently if you say "chicken salad" hereabouts, people mostly think of something moulded out of chicken and celery and such, bound together with mayonnaise.
Not I. I like my salads neither moulded nor bound.
Today I fetched home a Napa or Chinese cabbage. Shredded that, tossed it in a bowl; added a couple of carrots, peeled and julienned, and a julienned cucumber (nope, didn't peel that; I rarely do). Shredded leftover chicken across the top, and then equal parts of soy sauce, Chingkiang black vinegar, sesame oil and chilli oil, whisked up in a bowl with a clove of crushed garlic and poured over. A scatter of chopped roasted peanuts, and you're done. That's a chicken salad.
Not I. I like my salads neither moulded nor bound.
Today I fetched home a Napa or Chinese cabbage. Shredded that, tossed it in a bowl; added a couple of carrots, peeled and julienned, and a julienned cucumber (nope, didn't peel that; I rarely do). Shredded leftover chicken across the top, and then equal parts of soy sauce, Chingkiang black vinegar, sesame oil and chilli oil, whisked up in a bowl with a clove of crushed garlic and poured over. A scatter of chopped roasted peanuts, and you're done. That's a chicken salad.