I got the inspiration for this one from Anh’s food blog, specifically her recipe for roast hoisin chicken and I came up with this chicken cashew nut salad.
Ingredients
500g chicken thigh
1/4 cup hoisin sauce
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1 teaspoon grated ginger
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 tablespoon soy sauce
Combine all ingredients in a shallow bowl and allow to marinate for 1 hour or overnight. Preheat oven to 180’c and place chicken on a lined baking tray. Bake for 20-25 minutes, or until golden and cooked through.
Remove chicken from the oven, rest, cut into strips and add to salad.
Salad to serve –
120g mixed salad leaves
1 cucumber, roughly chopped
Dressing (1 teaspoon honey / 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar / 2 tablespoons olive oil – mix and pour over salad)
Toasted cashew nuts to sprinkle
Combine all ingredients (except cashews) and toss well to coat. Sprinkle with cashews.
Christine
This was super-delicious!
Hi! is this similar to the dressing you made for the salad you brought today? I was trying to remember all the things you said were in it.. any chance you could post/email the recipe? I seriously loved it.
Love your cooking blog 🙂
regards,
Kristina
Hi Kristina,
Yeah similar dressing but slightly different. Exact recipe is here:
Salad dressing recipe:
1/2 a cup of white vinegar
1/2 a cup of white sugar
2 T of soy sauce
2 T sesame seed oil
1/2 cup of olive oil
Instructions:
Heat vinegar and white sugar together in a pan over low heat until the sugar dissolves. Allow to cool and add other ingredients. Before serving, shake well in a jar/sealed container to mix the oils and sauce together, serve.
And the salad I used was this:
Ingredients
Salad leaves
Chang’s asian fried noodles
Ocean spray dried cranberries or ‘craisins’ as they like to call them
chopped nuts (cashews or walnuts)
3 shallots, chopped
Mix all ingredients together.
note: put the noodles and dressing into the salad right before serving as they go soggy quite quickly and you want to maintain that nice crunch from the noodles.
Hopefully will do a post about this one soon, just need to take a photo the next time i make it! 🙂
Thanks!
-Christine