Taiwanese-style Chicken Salad

It’s too dangerously hot to cook or bake! Take this cool chicken salad with you!

 

Ingredients for the Salad

Ingredients for the Dressing

  • Hoisin Sauce
  • Lemon Juice
  • Sweet and hot sauce
  • Sesame Oil

Equipment and Other Things

  • Frying pan
  • Various mixing bowls

Salad Creation

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1) Soak the agar in water.
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2) Add the salt to the carrots, briefly soak, then rinse.
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3) Beat, whip, or otherwise put into submission the egg.
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4) Spread it in a thin layer and cook until the top has set.
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5) Carefully roll it up.
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6) Slice the roll into ribbons.
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7) Organized cooks should have something resembling this setup.
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8) Cut the agar into shorter pieces. Somewhere between 1/3 and 1/2 of the original length..

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9) Add the celery and carrots to a large mixing bowl.
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10) Pile the agar to one side.
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11) Add the egg ribbons.
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12) Add the chicken.

Sauce Time

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13) Squeeze the juice out of the lemon.
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14) Add a dollop of hoisin sauce.
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15) Then a generous helping of hot and sweet sauce.
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16) Topped off with a drizzle of sesame oil.
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17) Whisk it into a gooey mass.
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18) Pour over the salad and toss.
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19) Commence consumption!

 

 

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