Oriental Chicken Salad
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Difficulty:
easy
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Preparation:
25 min.
Preparation
ready in 27 min.
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Ingredients
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- Ingredients
- 2 cups cooked Long grain rice
- 2 stalks Celery (washed; trimmed and diced)
- 2 carrots (peeled and cut into matchsticks)
- 1 yellow Bell pepper (rinsed; trimmed and diced)
- 1 red Bell pepper (rinsed; trimmed and dices)
- 1 ½ cups cooked, boneless chicken (cut into strips)
- 4 scallions (cleaned; trimmed and cut into strips)
- ¼ cup fresh cilantro (chopped)
- ¾ cup fresh Bean sprout
- 2 Tbsps fresh lemon juice
- ⅓ cup Chicken broth
- 1 Tbsp coarse Mustard
- 1 Tbsp good-quality olive oil
- salt (to taste)
- freshly ground Black pepper (to taste)
- fresh Chives (to garnish)
Preparation steps
1.
In a saucepan of salted boiling water, blanch celery, carrots, and peppers for 1 to 2 minutes, drain well. Quickly plunge into ice cold water to stop the cooking process.
2.
In a large bowl, whisk the lemon juice, chicken broth, mustard, oil, salt and pepper together. Add rice, blanched vegetables, chicken, scallions, cilantro, and sprouts, tossing well to combine. Season with salt and pepper.
3.
Serve salad at room temperature or chilled, garnish with fresh chives.
