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Monday, March 8, 2010

Mango Chicken Salad

If you are a meat-minded person like me, you need an entree (usually a warm cooked dish that contains some kind of meat ingredients) besides salad to call it a real meal. Salad is a side course in your dictionary. Even after you pig yourself out with their all-you-can-eat salad in an Olive Garden, you walk out the restaurant stuffed but unsatisfied. Your taste buds for meat are insatiable and they can not be fooled.

Remember a few times when you ate out with your friends, after the waitress took your order, you overheard your friends ordering their vegetable salad. When their dishes were brought over to the table (For some reason, their food was always served before yours.), they poked their forks on the platefull of vegetables, making that crunching sound, a sign that they were really digging their meal. You wondered what in the world could make their salad more tastier than the steak you were about to receive. At the mouth level, you had no doubt you had made the right choice. At the head level, you were not quite sure, doubting whether you should have ordered a green salad like everyone else. You made a mental note that next time you would try salad instead of meat. You told yourself that you'd better start a healthy diet and also start exercising soon. Just before you were about to mentally denounce meat, the waitress brought out your sizzling hot steak order. Yeah. Diet; Exercise. Die anyway. The ends justify the means. At home, I have a decorative ceramic plate on my kitchen counter that reads "Eat what you want. Let the food fight it out inside". If that's the case, my food will have a better fighting chance. In the food chain of command, their food was what my food ate.

However, this salad which recipe I'm about to disclose changed my above salad belief. As it turned out, I made the salad a full course dinner one evening, and afterwards I was settled for the remainder of the night. I think part of the reason is that this salad dish does contain meat. After all, my integrity as a meat-eater is still preserved. The recipe for this salad is truly my creation because I just mixed and matched what was left over in my refrigerator one day. The odds that someone else has the same leftover in his/her refrigerator is almost zero. Of course, I'm aware that nothing can escape the internet scrutiny nowadays. Anything you've ever said or done, someone has perhaps said or done it before you, online. Without further adieu, here is the recipe:

Ingredients:
- Chicken thigh (1 thigh)
- Luttuce (1/4 of a whole luttuce). Cut into smaller pieces
- Sweat Onion (a few slices). Cut into thin slices
- Avocado (ripped, one). Smash it
- Mushroom (5 or 6). Slice it
- Cherry Belle (5-6 of them. It's a small round radish with red skin and white meat). Slice them
- Broccoli (3-4 heads)
- Mango (one). Cut to cubes or slices

Ingredients for Salad Dressing:
- Soy sauce (1 tablespoon)
- Apple Cider Vinegar (1 teaspoon)
- Honey (1 teaspoon)
- Sesame Oil (2 teaspoon)
- Sesame seeds (1/2 teaspoon)

Instructions:
- Chop the chicken thigh to cubes
- Pan fry the chicken cubes with a few drops of olive oil until golden brown
- In a separate large blow, Mix all the vegetable ingredients
- Pull salad dress in the vegetable mixture and mix well
- Add mango and cooked chicken cubes

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