Name: Chicken and mint salad
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Vietnamese
Ingredients: big handful of mint leaves, shredded; 3 long mild red chillies, deseeded and finely shredded; 1 large carrot, finely shredded; 1 small cooked chicken or 4 cooked chicken breasts; 3 tbsp lime juice; black pepper; 1 tbsp caster sugar; 3 tbsp fish sauce; 4 fat cloves garlic, finely sliced and fried until golden; 3 tbsp toasted crushed peanuts; ¼ crisp white cabbage, finely shredded

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Food and Travels

By Alastair Hendy

Published 2004

About

This salad relishes a wait, for the dressing deliciously pickles all the veg and boots up the chicken - making it excellent prep-ahead fuss-free stuff for friends who are programmed to be late. Poached chicken is the thing to use here; there again, it’s great for hoovering up the remains of a roast.

Ingredients

¼ crisp white cabbage, finely shredded
3 tbsp fish sauce
1 tbsp <

Method

Toss the cabbage with the fish sauce, sugar, lime juice and a few twists of pepper. Flake the meat into small chunks, then toss this with the cabbage mixture, with the shredded chillies and carrot. Leave on one side for an hour so the flavours mingle. Dust before serving, toss through the mint, then pile on to plates and top with the peanuts and garlic.

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