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Cold Sesame Chicken
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(Recipe ID: 319)
Serves 8
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Source: Vito De Carolis
Great warm weather dish with a touch of Asia.
Ingredients
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- 1 Cooked chicken (deep fried suggested)
- 1/2 cup Water
- 1 teaspoon Powdered mustard
- 1 cup Chinese parsley or cilantro
- 1/2 Head lettuce
- 4 Scallion tops
- 1 tablespoon White sesame seeds *
- 1/2 teaspoon Fine sea salt *
- Pinch of sugar
Instructions
- Strip cooked chicken from carcass and tear meat in fine shreds.
- Meanwhile boil water and let cool.
- Then combine just enough with mustard to make a smooth paste (about 2 teaspoons water).
- Add to chicken and toss.
- Discard tough cilantro stems.
- Shred lettuce and green top of scallions.
- Heat a dry non-stick pan.
- Toast sesame seeds quickly and lightly.
- Then add to chicken and toss.
- Sprinkle chicken with salt and sugar.
- Add scallion and half of cilantro.
- Toss to mix thoroughly.
- Line a serving platter with lettuce strips and arrange chicken on top.
- Garnish with remaining cilantro.
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