Chinese Chicken Salad Recipe
Tickle your taste buds with this delicious Chinese Chicken Salad. A yummy Side Dish dish that I recommend to my friends is this recipe of Chinese Chicken Salad. If you have plenty of Chicken on hand then Chinese Chicken Salad is the thing to make. Please share this Chinese Chicken Salad recipe with your friends and family and let me know what they have to say.
Ingredients
1 whole broiler-fryer (about 3 pounds)
2 cups water Handful of celery tops
1 teaspoon salt
6 peppercorns
1 1/4 cups Soy Dressing
1 bunch fresh broccoli (about 2 pounds)
6 cups broken salad greens
1 cup chopped celery
2 green onions sliced
5 large radishes, sliced
1 can (3 ounces) Chinese fried noodles
1 hard-cooked egg, shelled
Directions
Simmer chicken with water, celery tops, salt, and peppercorns in kettle 1 hour, or until tender.
Take chicken from broth and let drain in shallow pan just until cool enough to handle.
(Strain broth and save for soup.)
Remove skin from chicken, then pull meat from frame in large pieces.
(It comes off easily while still warm.) Cut into bite-size pieces; place in shallow pan; pour 1/4 cup Soy Dressing over.
Cover; chill at least an hour to blend flavors.
Trim and discard outer leaves from broccoli.
Cut off ends to make about 4-inch-long stalks; split large ones length wise.
Cook, covered, in about 1-inch depth boiling salted water in large frying pan 15 minutes, or until crisply tender; drain well.
Place in shallow pan; pour 1/2 cup Soy Dressing over.
Cover; chill at least an hour.
When ready to serve, pile salad greens, celery, green onions, and radishes, saving about 8 slices for further use, into large shallow salad bowl.
Pour remaining 3/4 cup Soy Dressing over; toss lightly to mix.
Arrange marinated broccoli with stems toward center in a ring on top; fill ring with marinated chicken.
Spoon noodles around broccoli.
Press white of egg, then yolk through a sieve onto separate sheets of waxed paper.
Spoon white on top of chicken; top with saved radish slices, overlapping slightly; garnish with sieved egg yolk.
Take chicken from broth and let drain in shallow pan just until cool enough to handle.
(Strain broth and save for soup.)
Remove skin from chicken, then pull meat from frame in large pieces.
(It comes off easily while still warm.) Cut into bite-size pieces; place in shallow pan; pour 1/4 cup Soy Dressing over.
Cover; chill at least an hour to blend flavors.
Trim and discard outer leaves from broccoli.
Cut off ends to make about 4-inch-long stalks; split large ones length wise.
Cook, covered, in about 1-inch depth boiling salted water in large frying pan 15 minutes, or until crisply tender; drain well.
Place in shallow pan; pour 1/2 cup Soy Dressing over.
Cover; chill at least an hour.
When ready to serve, pile salad greens, celery, green onions, and radishes, saving about 8 slices for further use, into large shallow salad bowl.
Pour remaining 3/4 cup Soy Dressing over; toss lightly to mix.
Arrange marinated broccoli with stems toward center in a ring on top; fill ring with marinated chicken.
Spoon noodles around broccoli.
Press white of egg, then yolk through a sieve onto separate sheets of waxed paper.
Spoon white on top of chicken; top with saved radish slices, overlapping slightly; garnish with sieved egg yolk.
