Shredded chicken and cabbage salad with sesame dressing

This quick salad is all about the dressing - it gets creaminess from Japanese mayo, sweetness from mirin and acidity from orange juice for balance.

Shredded chicken and cabbage salad with sesame dressing Credit: Justine's Flavours of Fuji

• serves

  4

• prep

  20 minutes

• difficulty

  Easy

Ingredients

Sauce

• ½ cup toasted sesame seeds
• ½ clove garlic grated
• juice of quarter orange or grapefruit
• pinch of sugar
• 2 tsp soy sauce
• 2 tsp mirin
• 1 tsp sake
• 2 tsp sesame oil
• 4 tbsp Japanese mayonnaise

Salad

• chicken breast, cooked
• spring onions
• ¼ - ½ apple
• cabbage, shredded

Garnish

• sesame seeds
• wakame

Instructions

1. To make the sauce crush the toasted sesame seeds, add the garlic and the juice and sugar, mix to form a paste. Add the soy sauce, mirin, sake and sesame oil and mix. Add the mayonnaise and set aside.
2. Shred/floss the cooked chicken breast. Shred the cabbage. slice the spring onions and finely chop the apple.
3. Coat the salad in the dressing top with garnish.

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Cook's Notes

Oven temperatures are for conventional; if using fan-forced (convection), reduce the temperature by 20˚C. | We use Australian tablespoons and cups: 1 teaspoon equals 5 ml; 1 tablespoon equals 20 ml; 1 cup equals 250 ml. | All herbs are fresh (unless specified) and cups are lightly packed. | All vegetables are medium size and peeled, unless specified. | All eggs are 55-60 g, unless specified.