Myanmar Food
Savoury Chicken Salad
Myanmar "athoke" is rendered as "salad". However,
it is more various and diverse than what is
generally understood as salad. There are the fruit
salad, the leaf salad, the fish salad, the meat
salad, the many kinds of noodle salad, and to top it
all, there is the "rice hand-mixed salad", popular,
readily available, easily concocted at home and
loved by all guests, Myanmar and foreign. The
ingredients of the rice hand-mixed salad are steamed
rice, oil cooked with a little chili, glass noodles,
egg noodles, boiled potatoes, fried bean curd,
shredded papaya, fried shredded garlic, roasted pea
powder, dried shrimp powder, tamarind liquor, fish
sauce, all thoroughly mixed, not tossed.
Here is a simple chicken salad to serve three
or four persons.
Ingredients
- 1 lb chicken cut into thin strips about 1
inch wide and 2 inches long
- 1 teaspoon thinly sliced lemon grass
- 1 1/2 teaspoon well-pounded parched rice
- 1/2 cup thinly sliced onion
- 1/2 cup coarsely chopped mint leaves
- 4 1/2 teaspoon lemon juice
- 3 teaspoon fish sauce
- 1/2 cup chopped coriander greens
- 1/2 teaspoon ground dried chili
- 1 teaspoon chopped spring onion
- 1/4 teaspoon sugar
- 1 lettuce plant
How to cook
Grill sliced chicken to medium rare. In a mixing
bowl, mix all remaining ingredients well, add
chicken and mix. Serve on a bed of lettuce with
spring onions.
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