Menu Tuesday: Chinese Chicken Salad

Okay, so this is one of my FAVOURITE meals.  It's SO SO SO good.  And while you can make all sorts of arguments against it's health value, it always results in my eating a GIANT amount of cabbage, onions, it's FRESH made, not full of preservatives and all whatever garbage (you know, all the garbage that was in last night's Kraft Dinner meal....) .... it's DELISH. (I tend not to share food I don't find absolutely delicious...that just seems like it would be mean! Here! Here's this meal...it's kinda' crap...)

Here we go: Chinese Chicken Salad

Ingredients:
1 can mandarin oranges, drained
1 head Chinese cabbage (Nappa, or you could use Romaine lettuce)
1 bunch green onions, chopped
1 package noodles, crunched up (use the noodles from a package of Ramen, or some other uncooked chow-mein type noodles)
2 tsp sesame seeds
1/3 cup almond slices
cooked chicken breast, cut up in chunks, as much as you want in the salad
DRESSING -
1/4 cup vinegar
3 tbsp soy sauce
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup vegetable oil

Directions:
Brown sesame seeds and almond slices in 350 degree oven.  Let cool.  Combine dressing ingredients in a  saucepan and bring to a boil.  Pour into a jar and let cool.  Before serving shake well.

Break up Nappa cabbage and mix with all other salad ingredients.  Toss with dressing and serve immediately.

*make it even healthier for you by substituting in xylitol or stevia for the sugar in the dressing, gluten-free soy sauce, or rice or some other type of dry, oriental noodle for that extra crunch without the wheat, gluten, or whatever your intolerance may be for.

Easy and fabulous. My two favourite things in food.

Enjoy!

Pre-tossing

Tossed and ready to eat!