Chicken and Melon Salad with Warm Sesame Dressing

Name: Chicken and Melon Salad with Warm Sesame Dressing
Cuisine: Hong Kong (China)
Ingredients: 2 tsp toasted sesame oil; 1 small honeydew melon, sliced, deseeded and peeled; 2 tbsp sesame seeds; three 5 oz / 140 g skinless, boneless chicken breasts; 2 tsp shredded fresh root ginger; 2 garlic cloves, peeled and crushed; 3 tbsp sunflower oil; 1 tbsp rice vinegar

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Times Cookbook

By Frances Bissell

Published 1995

About

Melon partners cold cooked meats very well. Arrange a bed of salad leaves on the plates first, if you wish.

Ingredients

three 5 oz / 140 g skinless, boneless chicken breasts
1 small honeydew melon, sliced, deseeded and peeled

Asia
Hong Kong (China)
Gluten-free

Method

Poach or steam the chicken for 8 minutes. When cool enough to handle, slice, and arrange the slices on plates, alternating with slices of melon, or put a fan of chicken slices on one side of each plate and a fan of melon slices on the other. In a small, heavy frying pan, toast the sesame seeds until golden brown. Scatter them over the chicken and melon. In the same pan, mix all the remaining in