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Title: A couple a cool summer dishes Post by: Heba E. Husseyn on July 02, 2007, 02:09:30 am MIXED CHICKEN SALAD AND CHICKPEA SALAD
MIXED CHICKEN SALAD (http://i.imgur.com/rgzXx7a.jpg) Ingredients: Boneless chicken breast 2 lbs cut into large cubes Frozen peas 1 large pack Fresh carrots 4 medium Potatoes 3 medium to large Apple - 1 medium Canned pineapple pieces drained - half to 1 cup Cucumber salad dressing Tomatoe rings - few Lettuce leaves - few Hard boiled egg - 1 cut into rounds Method: Boil water and put the frozen peas into it for 5 minutes. Drain and keep aside. Scrape and cut carrots into rounds. Peal and cut potatoes into medium sized cubes. Boil carrots and potatoes. When almost tender, drain, and keep aside. Cut apple into quarters, remove the core and then cut into cubes or slices. Keep aside. Drain pineapple pieces. Keep aside. Wash chicken. Boil it in a large cooking pot with minimal of water and standard seasoning - salt, pepper, HP sauce, garlic & ginger paste and pinch of mixed herbs. When chicken is tender enough to break and about 2 or 3 tablespoons of stock remains, remove chicken from the cooker. Let it cool for a while. Then break it with a wooden spoon into big irregular pieces, and stir with the wooden spoon, mixing the spicy stock with the chicken pieces. It should be somewhat dry. Next, put in all the cut vegetables and fruit pieces into the chicken pieces. Shake the bottle of cucumber dressing, and pour on over the chicken, veggie and fruits mixture. After pouring about half of the bottle, stir gently with the wooden spoon. If it seems dry, pour more. Usually three-quarters of a bottle should be enough. Add as much as desired according to individual taste. Remember to stir gently and to the minimal so that the vegetable and chicken pieces don't break. But make sure the dressing is well blended. Now, carefully, transfer this chicken mixture in a deep bowl serving dish. Decorate with lettuce, sliced tomatoes and hard boiled egg rounds as desired. Serve cold with sliced bread or rolls and a cool glass of orange juice :) CHICKPEA SALAD (http://i.imgur.com/NMVC3vD.jpg) Ingredients: Canned Chickpeas - 3 cans drained and washed Potatoes 2 medium Shan's chickpea (chat) spice mix - 1 tsp Cummin powder - 1 tsp full Red chilli powder - half tsp Allspice - half tsp Lemon - 1 Fresh corriander chopped - half cup Onion - 2 medium cut into rings Tomatoes - 2 medium cut into rounds Method: Peel and cut potatoes into medium cubes. Boil till almost tender. Drain and keep aside. Drain and wash chickpeas. Put it into a large bowl. Also put in the boiled potatoes, all spices, onion rings, tomato rounds and fresh corriander. Pour the juice of one sliced lemon over the chickpea mixture. Mix gently with a wooden spoon for a minute or two, till everything is well blended. Decorate with any left over onion rings, tomatoes or corriander if desired. Serve as side dish. Title: Re: A couple a cool summer dishes Post by: Heba E. Husseyn on July 02, 2007, 02:15:51 am P.S. the picture of the chicken salad given is not that of a mixed salad. It's only chicken with dressing and lettuce. But the one I've given is more extensive :)
Also, potatoes with chickpea salad is optional. If you like, you can omit it. But I like it with potatoes. Title: Re: A couple a cool summer dishes Post by: Ruhi_Rose on July 02, 2007, 02:33:16 am wow! what yummies. and apparently low in calories. thanks dear Sis Heb |