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Chinese Chicken Salad with (optional) Ginger-Sesame Dressing

Course
Lunch
Servings

4

Tips & Tricks:

  • 🔪 Skip steps with knife if you completed Prep Day!
  • 🥄 Dressing ingredients are not included in the shopping list! Be sure to add them if you choose to make a dressing rather than buying pre-made.
  • 🥗 All salad ingredients are optional! Switch things up, add more of your favorite toppings, or ax any of these toppings you don’t like.

Ingredients:

  • 1/2 large head green cabbage
  • 1/2 a small head red cabbage
  • 2 medium carrots or 1 cup of shredded carrots
  • 1 chicken breast, sous vide and shredded
  • 4 green onion sprigs
  • 1 10.5 oz can of mandarine oranges
  • 1/2 cup edamame, shelled fresh or frozen

Optional Garnishes

  • Pre-made ginger, soy, sesame, or other favorite dressing
  • 1/2 to 1 cup crunchy noodles or wonton strips
  • 1 - 2 tsp sesame seeds
  • slivered or shaved almonds

[Optional Ginger-Sesame Dressing]

Directions:

  1. 🔪 Veg Prep
    1. Finely slice green and red cabbage with a knife or a mandolin (example)
    2. Thinly slice carrots if you didn't get shredded carrots.
    3. Finely slice green onions, white and green parts.
    4. Defrost edamame in Luke warm water if you got frozen and didn't defrost over night.
    5. Drain oranges and lightly pay dry in between paper towels.
  2. 🔪 Chicken (if you have a sous vide machine - find directions here)
    1. Cut chicken into 1 inch cubes.
    2. Season chicken all over with salt and pepper, + any dried seasoning you want.
    3. Warm a pan over medium heat with a tablespoon of oil.
    4. Saute chicken in the hot pan letting it sit on each side for 1 minute before flipping. Cook until you break a piece open and don’t find any pink, about 5-7 minutes.
  3. 🔪 Serve
    1. Place shredded cabbage in meal prep containers (if making ahead) or the salad bowl you plan on eating it out of.
    2. Top with the veg from step 1 + edamame and chicken (make sure the chicken is cooled if you’re making salads ahead of time).
    3. Just before eating, toss with your favorite dressing or optional [Ginger-Sesame Dressing] + crunchy noodles, wonton strips, sesame seeds, and/or almonds.