Summer meal: Poached ginger chicken
You will need:
– Four boneless, skinless chicken breasts (1 3/4 to 2 pounds)
– Kosher salt
– One two -inch piece ginger, peeled
– One large shallot
– Four tablespoons peanut oil
– One tablespoon toasted sesame oil
– 1/2 teaspoon sugar
– One cucumber, halved lengthwise, seeded and thinly sliced
– One bunch radishes, thinly sliced, or one small daikon radish, peeled and cut into matchsticks
– One teaspoon Asian chili sauce (such as sambal oelek)
– One bunch watercress, trimmed
– Juice of one lime
Directions:
1- Put the chicken in water with medium heat and add one spoon of salt. Leave the chicken cooking for about 15 minutes.
2- Grate the ginger and put it into a bowl. Add three spoons of peanut oil to the ginger, add the sesame oil and add 1/4 of salt and sugar.
3- Blend the cucumber and radish with the chili sauce, add 3/4 of salt, add the remaining peanut oil and the remaining 1/4 sugar all together in a large bowl as well as the watercress and toss.
4- Slices the chicken into pieces and put them on the plates with the salad underneath it . Add the ginger mixture to the chicken . Add some of the lime juice on to it.
Fact: Each plate contains 432 calories.
Courtesy of Food network site
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