Gut Happy Asian Chicken Salad

This Asian Chicken salad is a delicious gut friendly recipe that the whole family will enjoy.

The days are warmer and nights are longer… summer is almost here. It’s time to start cooking light-refreshing dinners again. 

 This yummy salad is still loaded with gut loving goodness, because when it’s too hot to drink bone broths, it doesn’t mean we can’t still add them to all our recipes!

Ingredients

Poached Chicken 

• 2 x organic chicken breast sliced into 5mm slices

• ‘Burn’ bone broth (or you can use ‘populate’ if you don’t like chilli)

• 1 tbs coconut sugar

• 20 ml sesame oil

• 40 ml fish sauce

• 1 cup water (or enough to cover chicken)

  Salad

• 1 carrot, grated

• ¼ small red cabbage, finely sliced

• 5 florets of cauliflower, finely sliced

• Small handful coriander leaves, torn

• Small handful mint leaves, torn

• 2 spring onions finely sliced

• 2 handfuls baby spinach leaves                        

  Salad dressing

• 1 tsp coconut sugar

• 1 tsp sesame oil

• 2 tsp fish sauce

• ¼ cup reserved liquid from chicken 

• 1 tsp Gut Happy partially hydrolyzed guar gum

  Wasabi peas and/or crushed peanuts to serve

Method

Step 1: Poach chicken 

1. Place all ingredients in a pot.

2. Stir well until all ingredients are combined. 

3. Simmer over medium heat until chicken is just cooked through – approx 6 minutes.

4. Take off heat, leave chicken to cool down in liquid (do not discard liquid)

Step 2: Make salad

1. Combine all ingredients in a salad bowl and mix well

 Step 3: Salad Dressing

1. Combine all ingredients in a small glass jar and shake well.

2. Do not pour over salad just yet.

 Step 4: Assembling

1. Take chicken out of liquid and shred using 2 forks.

2. Place shredded chicken on top of salad.

3. Pour salad dressing over chicken and salad and mix well until all is covered with salad dressing.

4. Season salad to your liking.

5.  Serve into bowls and top with wasabi peas and/or crushed nuts.