Vietnamese Rice and Chicken Salad

Bowl of vietnamese chicken and rice salad

Vietnamese Rice and Chicken Salad

This tasty Vietnamese rice and chicken salad is full of punchy flavours. It makes a tasty light meal and is perfect to pack in a lunchbox too!

Course Main Course, Salad

Cuisine Vietnamese

Prep Time 45

Cook Time 15

Total Time 1

Servings

Calories 761kcal

Author Corina Blum

Ingredients

For the rice

300 g Basmati Rice
1 teaspoon sunflower oil

For the dressing

2 limes juiced
2 tablespoon light soy sauce
2 tablespoon sesame oil
1 tablespoon fish sauce
2 teaspoon caster sugar
2 shallots or onions finely diced
2 birds eye chillies finely sliced
30 g bunch of coriander chopped
30 g bunch of chives chopped

For the salad

120 g cashew nuts roughly chopped
300 g chicken cut into strips
2 cloves garlic sliced
1 teaspoon sunflower oil
150 g mange tout (snow peas) sliced
½ cucumber cut into thin strips
1 red or orange pepper finely diced

Metric - US Customary

Instructions

Prepare the rice. Put it in a sieve and rinse under the cold tap. Put it in a bowl and cover with cold water. Leave for 30 minutes.
Heat a little oil in a saucepan. Stir fry the rice for 30 seconds then pour on enough hot water from the kettle to cover the rice and come 1 cm above it. Stir. Cover with the lid and bring to the boil. Boil for 1 minute then turn the heat off and leave to stand for 13 minutes with the lid still on.
After 13 minutes remove the lid and fork through the rice to separate the grains.
Prepare the dressing by mixing together all the dressing ingredients. Use more or fewer chillies depending on how hot you want the salad to be.
Dry fry the cashew nuts in a wok or frying pan. Keep moving the pan so they don't burn. Take them out when they are looking nicely toasted.
Add a little oil to the pan and stir fry the chicken along with the garlic.
Mix all the ingredients together and serve.

Notes

Nutritional information is approximate and a guideline only.

Nutrition

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