Chinese Chicken Salad

Name: Chinese Chicken Salad
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Chinese, Asian
Ingredients: 1 teaspoons black pepper; 118 milliliters firmly packed brown sugar; 473 milliliters cubed chicken breasts or thighs; 59 milliliters chopped fresh cilantro; 1 Tbsp peeled and minced fresh ginger; 4 green onions, thinly sliced; 1 head Napa cabbage, cut into very thin slivers; 59 milliliters chopped peanuts; 2 ramen noodle seasoning packets (reserved from ramen noodle packages used in salad); 255 grams packages oriental- or chicken-flavored ramen noodles, broken; 118 milliliters rice vinegar or 1/3 cup white vinegar; 118 milliliters sesame oil; 1 Tbsp sesame oil; 2 Tbsps sesame seeds, toasted in a dry skillet over medium heat

Need a dairy free main course? Chinese Chicken Salad could be an excellent recipe to try. This recipe makes 6 servings with 553 calories, 17g of protein, and 33g of fat each. This recipe covers 15% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 45 minutes. Head to the store and pick up sesame seeds, firmly brown sugar, ginger, and a few other things to make it today. To use up the peanuts you could follow this main course with the Single-Girl Melty Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake as a dessert.

Instructions

In a 2-cup measuring cup, whisk together first 6 marinade ingredients. In a medium-size bowl, toss chicken with 1/4 cup marinade and marinate for 1 hour.

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Heat sesame oil in a medium-size skillet over medium-high heat.

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Add chicken and cook, without stirring, until nicely browned on one side, 3 to 5 minutes. Stir and cook until chicken is no longer pink in the center, 5 to 8 more minutes. (If you're short on time, cook chicken immediately after tossing it with marinade.)

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Transfer cooked chicken to a large bowl, and add remaining salad ingredients; toss to combine.

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Pour remaining marinade over salad and toss until everything is well coated. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate several hours, or overnight, to let the flavors develop.

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