Chinese Chicken Salad

On Wednesday I made my first whole chicken in the crock pot. I knew I was leaving with the guys in the afternoon so I decided to try it. I just placed the chicken in the crock pot with 1/4C soy sauce, 1/4C honey, Thyme, Basil, Sage, a chopped onion, and a ton of garlic and let it go for 6 hours. It  was delicious! The most exciting part was that the meat completely fell off the bones, but the bones stayed together! I was able to pack up the extra chicken quickly!

This brings us to last night... I had a ton of extra chicken and wanted to make a nice salad. The Barefoot Contessa never lets me down ;) I tried her Chinese chicken salad and we loved it!

You'll need-

Cooked chicken

Olive oil

salt 

pepper

asparagus

red bell pepper

2 scallions

1TBS sesame seeds

For the dressing-

1/3C vegetable oil

1/4C Apple Cider Vinegar

3TBS soy sauce

1tsp dark sesame oil

1TBS honey

1 Garlic clove (chopped)

1tsp ginger (honestly I use the tube)

1/4C peanut butter

1tsp salt

1/2tsp pepper

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• This is slightly modified.
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• -Place cooked, broken up chicken in a bowl
• -Blanch Asparagus for 2-3 min and then quickly transfer to ice water
• -slice red pepper
• -combine all in bowl
• -mix remaining ingredients in a medium sized bowl and pour over salad-sprinkle with scallions and sesame seeds
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• I served this over a 50/50 blend. It was delicious! Yes, Mr.M did eat it!
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• My morning time by myself is almost alone! Today it was cut short when I noticed Mr.M was awake when I went to head downstairs and he needed cuddles! I did get the most important morning things done (unloaded dishwasher, packed lunch, etc)
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• My morning water with lemon oil was chugged.
• Berries were washed.
• Banana chips were put in the oven.
• and now the day begins!
• Have good day!
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