Asian Chicken and Cabbage Salad
From the kitchen of CarlyBright, spicy cabbage and shredded carrots tossed with shredded chicken in a punchy lime-ginger dressing spiked with fish sauce. Fresh cilantro, spinach, and a scatter of peanuts and sesame seeds make it crunchy, filling, and impossibly good.
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- Servings
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- Difficulty
- medium
Ingredients
4 servings
- 11 red jalapeño or Fresno chile with some seeds, chopped
- 11/3 cup vegetable oil
- 11/4 cup fresh lime juice
- 12 tablespoons reduced-sodium soy sauce
- 12 teaspoons light brown sugar
- 11 teaspoon fish sauce (such as nam pla or nuoc nam)
- 11 teaspoon grated peeled ginger
- 1Kosher salt
- 11/2 small head of red cabbage, thinly sliced (about 5 cups)
- 12 medium carrots, peeled, shredded
- 16 scallions, whites and pale greens only, thinly sliced
- 13 cups shredded rotisserie chicken
- 11 cup baby spinach, thinly sliced
- 11/3 cup chopped fresh cilantro
- 11/4 cup chopped dry-roasted peanuts
- 11/2 teaspoons toasted sesame seeds
Instructions
Whisk chile, oil, lime juice, soy sauce, brown sugar, fish sauce, and ginger in a large bowl; season with salt. Add cabbage, carrots, scallions, chicken, spinach, and cilantro; toss to coat. Top with peanuts and sesame seeds.