Goi Ga Chicken Salad
A classic and simple Vietnamese salad made up of crunchy cabbage, peanuts, and tender chicken, dressed with a perfectly balanced dressing. Vietnamese food, like so much East and Southeast Asian cookery, is all about the balance of flavour; this dressing is the perfect example. Fish sauce for salt and umami, sugar for sweetness, chilli for spice, lime for sourness, shallots, and garlic for bitterness. All of the five taste senses are catered for, making this salad and its dressing instantly pleasing to the palate. 👋 Please note, due to updated NHS guidelines regarding cookery around bean sprouts, we have recently removed them from this recipe. If you do wish you use bean sprouts in this recipe, we advise you to cook them thoroughly until piping hot before adding them to your salad.
Method
Based on 4 servings, adjust as needed.
Step 1
Start by shredding the cooked chicken. Discard any skin or bones and put the meat into a large mixing bowl. Finely shred half of the sweetheart cabbage, and cut the carrot into matchsticks. Add these ingredients to the chicken.
Step 2
Make the all-important dressing by combining some very thinly sliced shallots with the chopped green chilli, rice wine vinegar, fish sauce, sugar, grated garlic and the juice and zest of your limes. Mix the dressing well and give it a taste. It should be the perfect balance of sweetness, salt, spice and acidity. Add more of whatever you think it needs, if anything at all.
Step 3
Tear the mint into the salad bowl with the chicken. Add half of the peanuts and pour over the dressing. Toss well and serve before scattering with the remaining peanuts.
- Ingredients
- Based on 4 servings
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1 tbsp Sugar 1x Sainsbury's White Caster Sugar 500g -
1 Carrot, peeled and cut into matchsticks 1x Sainsbury’s Carrots Loose -
0.5 Sweetheart Cabbage, shredded 1x Sainsbury's Sweetheart Cabbage -
2 Shallots, thinly sliced 1x Sainsbury's Shallots 400g -
15g Mint, leaves picked 1x Sainsbury's Fresh Packed Mint 30g -
2 Limes 2x Sainsbury's Limes -
1 Green Chilli, or any chilli 1x Sainsbury's Green Chillies 65g -
2 tbsp Fish Sauce 1x Blue Dragon Fish Sauce 150ml -
1 Garlic Cloves, peeled and grated 1x Sainsbury's Garlic -
200g Salted Peanuts, chopped 1x Stamford Street Co. Salted Peanuts 200g -
2 tbsp Rice Wine Vinegar 1x Sainsbury's Rice Vinegar, Inspired to Cook 150ml -
600g Cooked Chicken Legs, meat shredded 2x Sainsbury's Roast British Cooked Chicken Legs x2 300g