A wonderful way of indservingividual salads. The chicken and creamy coconut dressing are a perfect match
Panko-crumbed chicken and chickpea salad cups with a coconut and peanut dressing
Ingredients
- 60ml (¼ cup) cake flour
- 2,5ml (½ tsp) fine salt
- 2 large eggs, lightly whisked
- 90g panko crumbs
- 15ml (1 tbsp) paprika
- 4 (about 500g) deboned and skinless chicken breasts, sliced into bite-sized chunks
- olive oil, to drizzle
- DRESSING
- ½ x 400ml tin coconut milk
- 100g smooth peanut butter
- 1 (about 25g) spring onion, chopped
- 30ml (2 tbsp) red wine vinegar
- 2,5ml (½ tsp) dried chilli flakes
- 2,5ml (½ tsp) garlic, finely chopped
- salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- SALAD
- 12 (about 120g) medium-sized butter lettuce leaves
- 1 cucumber, spiralised (see ‘Cook’s tip’ if a spiraliser is not available)
- 100g sugar snap peas
- 1 x 400g tin chickpeas, drained
- handful microherbs
Instructions
1 For the panko-crumbed chicken, preheat the oven to 200°C. Combine the flour and salt in a mixing bowl. Place the whisked eggs in a second mixing bowl, then combine the panko crumbs and paprika in a third mixing bowl. Dip the chicken pieces into the flour and then into the eggs. Coat in the crumbs and arrange on a baking tray. Drizzle with a bit of olive oil and bake until tender and cooked through, 20 minutes.
For the dressing, place everything in a food processor and season
to taste. Thin it down with a little water if it thickens upon standing.
To assemble the salad cups, arrange 3 butter lettuce leaves on each plate. Add a bit of spiralised cucumber, some sugar snap peas, chicken pieces and chickpeas. Top with a spoonful of the dressing and garnish with microherbs to serve.
Notes
If you don’t own a spiraliser, then use a vegetable peeler to create cucumber ribbons instead, or cut the cucumber into julienned strips. If you want to bulk up this meal, serve inside a toasted wrap or pita – it makes for a wonderful filling.
