This is a Jamie Oliver recipe that is a great standby. It has been awhile since I looked through my Jamie 15 minutes cook book, but was inspired again by the simplicity of his recipes but the absolute flavour hit he gets by adding fresh herbs and spices. I encourage you to make the dressing as it is a flavour bomb and can be used on any salad to give it a zing. I swapped out the rice noodles for beans sprouts to lower the carb content, but you can replace if you wish.
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| Watermelon salad |
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| Sticky kicking chicken thighs |
Ingredients
Lettuce (whatever leaves you have on hand or baby gem)
4 or so radishes, sliced
1/2 bunch of fresh coriander and mint, finely sliced
Handful of fresh bean sprouts
4 slices of watermelon cut into chunks
1/2 dozen cubes of feta
8 chicken thigh fillets
1 Tablespoon Chinese 5 spice powder
Olive Oil
1 Tablespoon Sweet Chilli sauce
2 Tablespoons of Sesame seeds
Salt & Pepper
Dressing
2 Tablespoon low salt soy sauce
1 Tablespoon fish sauce
1 fresh red chilli
1/2 thumb size of ginger
2 Spring Onions
1 clove garlic, crushed
2 limes
Coriander stalks
1 Tablespoon sesame Oil
Method
Combine all salad ingredients decoratively on a platter
For the dressing place the coriander stalks, soy sauce, fish sauce, chilli, peeled ginger, chopped spring onions a splash of water, 1 Tablespoon sesame oil, lime juice and crushed garlic into a blender or container and use a stick blender. Blitz to combine
Dress salad with a little of the dressing and keep the rest in a screw top jar in the fridge.
On a large sheet of greaseproof paper sprinkle the 5 spice powder and salt pepper, place the chicken and toss each thigh to be covered in spice. You can pound to make thinner but I didn't.
Heat the oil and fry chicken thighs till golden and cooked through. Sprinkle with sesame seeds. Garnish with a few leaves of coriander.
Bring everything to the table and enjoy.
Mamma Marmalade
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