Sesame Chicken Salad

Name: Sesame Chicken Salad
Prep time: 28 min
Cook time: 28 min
Total time: 28 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 118 milliliters sesame seeds, a mix of black and white or all white; 3 liters shredded carrots, a couple of handfuls; 605 grams chicken breast tenders; 59 milliliters Chinese duck sauce or, apricot all fruit spread; 2 inches fresh ginger root, grated or minced; 177 milliliters pure maple syrup, eyeball the amount; 142 grams mixed baby greens, 1 bag; 118 milliliters sweet hot mustard, eyeball the amount; 4 servings Fried Chinese noodles for garnish, perhaps leftover from take out, optional; 3 Tbsps rice vinegar, 3 generous 1 tablespoones; 4 servings Salt and pepper; 4 scallions, thinly sliced on an angle; 113 grams snow peas, sliced on an angle; 79 milliliters dark soy, Tamari, eyeball the amount; 59 milliliters vegetable oil, 3 or 4 turns of the pan, total; 59 milliliters vegetable oil, eyeball the amount

Sesame Chicken Salad requires roughly 28 minutes from start to finish. This recipe makes 4 servings with 1133 calories, 51g of protein, and 47g of fat each. This recipe covers 58% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. It works well as a main course. If you have vegetable oil, scallions, baby greens, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the rice vinegar you could follow this main course with the Red Velvet Mug Cake as a dessert. It is a good option if you're following a dairy free diet.

Instructions

Combine syrup, soy and sweet hot mustard in a bowl. Season chicken tenders with salt and pepper on both sides.

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Chicken Tenders

Salt And Pepper

Mustard

Syrup

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Bowl

Add chicken tenders to 1/2 of the marinade and coat. Set aside. Reserve the remaining 1/2 for dressing.

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Chicken Tenders

Marinade

Preheat a large nonstick skillet over medium high heat.

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Frying Pan

Spread sesame seeds on a sheet of waxed paper or into a shallow dish. Waxed paper will speed your clean up. Dip the tenders into the sesame seeds. Coat the pan with a thin layer of oil. Cook chicken in small batches 3 minutes on each side and remove to plate.

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Sesame Seeds

Whole Chicken

Chicken Tenders

Dip

Cooking Oil

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Frying Pan

Whisk ginger, vinegar and the reserved marinade together then stream in the oil while you are continuing to whisk dressing.

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Marinade

Vinegar

Ginger

Cooking Oil

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Whisk

Combine all of the salad ingredients in a bowl. Toss with dressing and serve, topping with sesame chicken tenders. Toss some crunch into your salad with fried noodles, if you have any leftover packets from ordering Chinese take out, for the last time!

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Chicken Tenders

Pasta