Mandarin Tossed Chicken Salad With Cashew Dressing for 1

"Well yasee I had this uncooked half chicken breast left from yesterdays experiments. Also the temperature is all ready in the mid 80s and upward bound. A souped up chicken salad seemed like a good idea for a main dish. I use my WOK a lot, particularly when it's hot out. I invented a chopped cashew salad dressing for this sort of thing some time back. It's rather good for fruit type salads . So Here we go, written as I fix it. A lot of my recipes are done this way typing notes into textpad as I work/invent.(Grynn)This is a BIG serving salad main dish or there's enough chicken for 2."
 
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Ready In:
20mins
Ingredients:
10
Serves:
1
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ingredients

  • 1 large b&s chicken breast, cut in about 1 inch bite sized pieces
  • 7.39 ml oil, for woking the chicken
  • 118.29 ml drained mandarin orange segments, usually canned
  • 236.59 ml mixed greens, the crisper the better,like iceberg or romain,depending on what available
  • 1 hard-boiled egg, diced because i had it to use up (optional)
  • For the dressing (this makes enough to save some)

  • 118.29 ml mild salad oil
  • 59.14 ml vinegar
  • 59.14 ml honey
  • 59.14 ml chopped roasted cashews (I suppose you could use peanuts)
  • 0.25 ml salt, to taste
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directions

  • Fire up the WOK and chow the chicken chunks until cooked through and set aside.
  • Remember this time it will have no additional cooking.
  • If you have cooked chicken use it.
  • A Woolfe Tip, when B&Schicken breasts are cheap, I chunk, WOK, and vac-bag freeze for later use.
  • Put all the dressing ingredients in a blender or small food processor and ZAP until blended.
  • I throw the cashews in as is, as I buy the pieces it's a lot cheaper that way.
  • You can do both the Chicken and dressing ahead of time.
  • Tear up the greens into a bowl.
  • Add the orange segments and cooled chicken.
  • Toss with the dressing.
  • I had this with some torn off bread.

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Reviews

  1. You MUST try this salad dressing. I used fruit, chicken, salad greens and then added our favorite salad ingredients. I could est this dressing with a spoon. It makes tons so there'll be lots left for your next salad.
     
  2. I had a whole chicken breast, so I made this for 2. I loved it. It was quick and easy and and filling. I will make again.
     
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May 2005: T. Woolfe recently passed away. He will be greatly missed by his friends at Recipezaar. -- Recipezaar Editor ***************************************************** Well lessee. I'm a retired, post 65 male live-alone, self taught but been cooking most of my life, wrote a cookbook for friends http://www.heywired.org/TIMM/cookwoof.htm Favorite cooking books Cookwise by Shirley Corriher, an old Joy of Cooking, Jeff Smiths The Frugal Gourmet, Julia & Jacques Cooking at Home, and a couple of those private printings. A Word on How I feel about RATEINGS. I reserve that fifth star for SUPRISE ME purposes. The new combination. The Idea that I haven't seen before. The spark that elevates a recipie from the ordinary-with-variations. If I don't seem to give a lot of 5s that's why. A 4 is a great taste.
 
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