Wednesday 3 November 2010

Recipe: Bang Bang Ji Chicken with Sesame dressing


This is extremely healthy and easy dish I love.
And you can eat lots of salad, takes 15min or so to prepare, and believe me, it's addictive!
I got home late tonight, hungry, want to cook, but no time/ingredients, so I easily and happily settled on this.
If you like it spicy, just add chili oil or marinade chicken with chili before cooking.
Traditionally with chicken breast, but I prefer thigh.




Ingredients: (* if you have)

Chicken breast or thigh any amount but this recipe is 500gm
Sake (if not, White wine)
1 small ginger
Cucumber half
Lettuce
 (Dressing)
Ground sesame (from roasted white sesame preferably) 4 tbl spoons
Soy sauce 2 tbl spoons
Sesame oil (olive oil is ok too) 1tbl spoon
Vinegar 2 tbl spoons
Mayonnaise 1-2 tbl spoons
*Dashi stock (powdered) 0.5 tbl spoon

Steaming (of course, put the lid on!)

1: Marinade the chicken in Sake and put sliced ginger then cool in fridge prior to cooking 1~3 hours
2: Steam the chicken still with ginger thoroughly until cooked, about 20 minutes
3: Slice the cucumber and lettuce thinly and prepare on a dish
4: mix all (Dressing) ingredients, taste to your liking
5: Cool down the chicken and slice into strips
6: Arrange in the bed of vegetables and pour the dressing



You can actually skip the marinade (I did today) or if you can't get/make ground sesame, use pasted sesame such as Tahini (but try to sprinkle some sesame for topping).
You can also boil the chicken instead of steaming (still with ginger and sake)
This dressing is already a versatile dressing great for anything, especially broccoli, BBQ, grilled aubergine, grilled fish or omelet.
Enjoy!

1 comment:

Tiaz said...

Amazing. I love this Salad. Will try your recipes next weekend. Hope you're well Shoko. xx