Chicken and noodle salad with cashews and grapefruit chilli dressing

Recipes / Salads

Mouth-watering Asian flavours spring to life in this super-healthy and easy chicken noodle salad.

Recipe «Chicken and noodle salad with cashews and grapefruit chilli dressing» presented in category Recipes / Salads, to prepare this dish you will need no more 15 minutes. To make this dish at home by prescription from the author Gomer would need: 2 single chicken breast fillets, 1 x 150g pkt pad Thai noodles, 1 red capsicum, halved, deseeded, thinly sliced, 80g watercress, sprigs picked, washed, dried, 60g snow pea sprouts, halved , 2 green shallots, ends trimmed, finely chopped, 80g whole salted roasted cashews, 3 tbsp fried shallots , 2 tbsp fresh grapefruit juice, 2 tbsp sweet chilli sauce, 1 tbsp peanut oil, 1 garlic clove, crushed.

Ingredients:

  • 2 single chicken breast fillets 
  • 1 x 150g pkt pad Thai noodles 
  • 1 red capsicum, halved, deseeded, thinly sliced 
  • 80g watercress, sprigs picked, washed, dried 
  • 60g snow pea sprouts, halved 
  • 2 green shallots, ends trimmed, finely chopped 
  • 80g whole salted roasted cashews 
  • 3 tbsp fried shallots 
  • 2 tbsp fresh grapefruit juice 
  • 2 tbsp sweet chilli sauce 
  • 1 tbsp peanut oil 
  • 1 garlic clove, crushed 

Instructions

  1. Half fill a frying pan with cold water. Cover and bring to the boil over high heat. Reduce heat to low. Add chicken and simmer, covered, for 15 minutes or until cooked through. Transfer to a plate and set aside for 15 minutes to cool. Shred chicken into thin strips.
  2. Meanwhile, place noodles in a large heatproof bowl. Cover with boiling water and set aside for 10 minutes to soften. Drain. Return to the bowl.
  3. To make the grapefruit chilli dressing, combine grapefruit juice, sweet chilli sauce, peanut oil and garlic in a screwtop jar. Shake until well combined.
  4. Add chicken, capsicum, watercress, snow pea sprouts and green shallot to noodles and toss until well combined. Add dressing and toss to evenly coat.
  5. Divide salad among serving plates. Sprinkle with cashews and fried shallots. Serve immediately.