Thai Chicken Salad Spring Rolls with Homemade Fried Rice |
Dressing: 1/4 cup rice vinegar
1/4 cup olive oil
2 teaspoons sesame oil
2 tablespoons store-bought Thai peanut sauce
2 tablespoons granulated sugar
Spring Rolls:
1 whole chicken breast, or 2 half breasts (or 2 lbs boneless, skinless chicken breasts)
1/2 head Napa cabbage (1 pound or 8 cups thinly sliced cabbage)
1 cup shredded carrots (about 3 large carrots)
2 green onions, thinly sliced, plus 1 green onion, thinly sliced for garnish
1 tablespoon black sesame seeds
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
12 rice paper wraps
For the dressing, in a small bowl whisk together the vinegar, olive oil, sesame oil, Thai peanut sauce and sugar. Set aside.
To poach the chicken, in a medium saucepan bring 8 cups of water up to a boil. Add the chicken and bring down to a simmer. Simmer the chicken for 40 minutes until fully cooked and tender. Remove the chicken from the water and set aside on a plate to cool.
In the meantime, in a medium bowl, combine the cabbage, carrots, 2 sliced green onions, and sesame seeds.
Using 2 forks, shred the cooled chicken and add to the bowl with the salad.
Add the dressing and mix, making sure the salad is nicely coated.
In a wide, shallow bowl filled with hot water, put a rice paper wrap into the water. Press the wrap down so it is fully submerged in the water. Remove when softened. Place the softened wrap flat onto a damp work surface.
Scoop 1/2 cup of the Thai chicken salad onto the bottom 1/3 of the wrap. Fold over the left and right sides of the wrap inward about 1 inch. Working from the bottom up, tightly roll the wrap.
Repeat with the remaining Thai chicken salad and arrange on a platter.
Garnish the spring rolls with the remaining sliced green onion. Serve alongside a bowl of Thai peanut sauce for dipping.
TIPS
- Save yourself some time and cook the chicken ahead of time. It needs to be cool anyway.
- Even though the recipe says to poach, we are in grilling season, so go ahead and prepare the chicken however you like.
- If you're like me you won't be able to find rice paper wraps easily (I happen to live near a great Asian market) try using wonton wraps or even tortilla
- I, for some reason, couldn't find Napa cabbage. But I did find bags of coleslaw and broccoli slaw. Both worked great and i just added extra carrots to it
- Try adding other veggies to the mix make it your own
- Tried the rice paper wraps and didn't enjoy them. Guess what? You can now just enjoy this as a regular salad.
- Want to sever this to a few of your vegan friends? Get rid of the chicken. It's that simple!
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