Name: Numbing Chicken Noodle Salad
Yield: Serves 4–6 as a starter or light meal
Ingredients: muscovado sugar ¾ tsp; boneless, skinless chicken breasts 3 organic, each weighing about 150 g/5½ oz; Sichuan pepper 1 tsp, crushed; mint handful of leaves, stems discarded; dry sherry or rice wine 2 tbsp; cold-pressed sesame or sunflower oil 3 tbsp; groundnut oil 2 tbsp; rice vinegar 2 tbsp; light soy sauce 2 tbsp; Sichuan pepper 1 tbsp, crushed; spring onions 3 large, thickly sliced diagonally; sugar 2 tbsp; sea salt ¾ tsp; Chinese leaves ⅓ of a head, thickly sliced diagonally; white peppercorns ½ tsp, crushed; salt ¼ tsp; cucumber ½; coriander handful of leaves, stems discarded; ginger root 2.5 cm/1 in chunk; hoisin sauce 3 tbsp; lime finely grated zest of 1; soy sauce 2 tsp; thin rice noodles 100 g/3½ oz; cashew nuts 3 tbsp, roughly chopped

Preparation info

Serves
4–6
as a starter or light meal

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Pepper

By Christine McFadden

Published 2008

About

This is a glorious mix of contrasting textures and flavours – numbing and tingling Sichuan pepper, cooling cucumber and mint, sweet crunchy nuts, zesty lime and tender noodles. A mellow sesame and soy dressing rounds out the flavours.

Ingredients

boneless, skinless chicken breasts 3 organic, each weighing about 150 g/5½

Method

First make the marinade: dissolve the sugar in the sherry and soy sauce. Squeeze the ginger in a garlic press and add the juice to the mix. Stir in the hoisin sauce and salt.

Halve the chicken breasts horizontally, then cut them as evenly as possible into neat strips about 1cm x 4cm/½in x 1½in. Mix these with the marinade and leave at room temperature for 30 minutes or in the fridge for

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