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Asian Chicken Salad with Apple Cider Vinaigrette
A light and fresh salad with a delicious apple cider vinaigrette, topped with grilled chicken, and crispy vermicelli noodles.
- Prep time
- 20 min
- Cook time
- 10 min
- Yield
- 6 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
6
- 1/4 cup Apple cider vinegar
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 2 tsp sesame oil
- 1/2 tsp lemon juice
- Cooking oil
- 1 cup rice vermicelli noodles (dry, uncooked)
- 2 romaine lettuce hearts (chopped into small bite-sized pieces)
- 1/2 tsp sesame seeds
- 1+1/2 cup grilled chicken (sliced)
- 1 carrot (julienned)
- 1/2 red onion (sliced thinly)
- 1/4 cup cilantro (roughly chopped)
- 3 tbsp chopped scallions
Instructions
- 1
Mix apple cider vinegar, sugar, sesame oil and lemon juice. Set vinaigrette aside.
- 2
Prepare the crispy noodles: Heat up cooking oil in wok or large pot (fill to about 2 inches of cooking oil).
- 3
Make sure the oil is hot enough (test with wooden chopstick or wooden spoon).
- 4
Deep fry dry vermicelli noodles. Just takes a few seconds for it to puff up. Retrieve with strainer. Set aside.
- 5
Toss romaine lettuce in vinaigrette. Add sesame seeds.
- 6
Assemble the salad. Add grilled chicken, carrot, red onion and cilantro.
- 7
Top with crispy noodles and scallions (add these at the very last minute; right before serving).
- 8
Enjoy!