Quick chicken cucumber salad recipe
Introducing a quick, easy and lean recipe from chicken and cucumber for your daily meal. This is a perfect recipe for salad or could serve as those mid time meals for your diet.
Servings 2
Ingredients
- 2 chicken drumsticks
- 1 mini cucumber
- 4 grape tomatoes
- 1 medium lemon
- 1 tsp grated ginger
- 2 pieces garlic
- A few stems of cilantro
- 2 chili peppers
- 1 tsp salt
- ½ tsp sugar optional
Instructions
- Remove skin and bone from chicken drum sticks.
- Thinly slice chicken into long thin strip across its fiber.
- Boil water in a sauce pan/pot, add chicken for about 3-5 minutes.
- When chicken's done (do not over cook) , transfer into a vented container to let it dry and cool.
- If you're using big and ripe cucumber, cut into halves and remove seed before proceed onto next step.
- Wash all your veggies.
- Slice cucumber thinly along its/theirs length.
- Chop cilantro.
- Cut tomatoes into quarters.
- Grate/mince garlic, ginger, chili pepper.
- Put all your ingredients above into a mixing bowl.
- Add salt, sugar (optional) and squeezed lemon juice in.
- Mix them all evenly, let sit for about 5-10 minutes.
- Mix again and serve.
Notes
Chicken drumsticks are chosen due to their tendon distribution for crunchiness. If you want all white meat, replace with 1 breast. For quicker and lesser prepare time, you could also substitute with boneless skinless chicken thighs or rib meat. Mini cucumbers/dill are prefer due to their lack of seed and fresh crunch taste/texture. If you use larger cucumber, remove seeds and slice them a bit thicker than you would for the mini one. Add onion for variation Finish with crushed peanut or sesame to enhance flavor