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Thai-style chicken and cucumber salad
Photo: Anna Pelzer

Thai-style chicken and cucumber salad

12 ingredients 30 min 2 openrecipes

This recipe is a light, healthy alternative to Thai curry, with a heady balance of hot, sour, salty and sweet flavours.

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

534
Calories
42g
Protein
5g
Fat
75g
Carbs

Counts 9 of 12 ingredients — the other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 9 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Rice 1 cup cooked (158g) white 206
Chicken 100g cooked 165
Broccoli 1 cup chopped (156g) 55
Onion 1 medium (110g) 44
Wine 2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml) 25
Cucumber 1/2 cup sliced (52g) 16
Lime juice of 1 lime (44ml) 11
Soy Sauce 1 tbsp (15ml) 9
Vinegar 1 tbsp (15ml) distilled 3
Gochujang not in our table 0
Peppermint not in our table 0
Coriander not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 2 chicken breasts
  • 75ml/3fl oz Thai fish sauce
  • 2 limes
  • 1 tbsp gochujang (a Korean fermented chilli paste
  • 4 cucumbers
  • 75ml/3fl oz Japanese rice wine vinegar
  • 8 birds’-eye chillies, chopped
  • ½ head of broccoli
  • 5 spring onions
  • 6 shallots
  • handful fresh mint
  • handful fresh coriander

Directions

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By bbcfood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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