Coconut chicken salad with spring greens
400g can coconut milk
1 cup cold water
1 red chilli, finely chopped with seeds removed
3 chicken breasts
100g snow peas, trimmed
1 green pepper, finely sliced
150g mesclun (baby salad leaves, see Tip!)
Dressing
Juice of 2 limes
1 tbsp fish sauce
2 tbsp sweet chilli sauce
1. To poach the chicken, place in a saucepan with coconut milk, water and chilli, and bring just to the boil. Turn down the heat and gently simmer for 10 to 15 minutes (depending on size of chicken breasts) until cooked. Remove chicken and liquid to a large bowl and refrigerate to cool.
2. Cook snow peas in boiling, salted water for 30 seconds. Drain and plunge into ice-cold water to cool, then drain well.
3. Combine salad ingredients in a bowl. Thinly slice the cold chicken and toss through the salad ingredients.
4. Dress with lime juice, fish sauce and chilli sauce and toss well.
Tip: Mesclun is a French term for a mixture of baby salad leaves, often containing a few slightly bitter leaves, such as endive, mizuna, rocket or radicchio, along with red and green lettuce leaves.
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