52 Weeks, 52 Chickens: Week Five – Leftovers, bang bang chicken

September 29, 2009 in Chicken recipes, Leftovers | Tags: 52 Chickens, 52 Weeks, bang bang, chicken, chilli bean sauce, Chinese vinegar, iceburg lettuce, leftover, leftovers, Nigella Lawson, peanut butter, poultry, recipe, sesame seed oil, soy sauce, spicy, Thanksgiving, turkey

One recipe I turn to quite often for leftover chicken or turkey is Nigella Lawson’s recipe for bang bang turkey salad. You can find it online here.

It’s delicious and spicy, and refreshing thanks to the spring onions and cucumber. You mix a sauce together by heating 2 tbsp groundnut oil, then cooling slightly and adding 2 tsp sesame oil, 3 tbsp smooth peanut butter, 2 tbsp chilli bean sauce, 1 tbsp caster sugar, 1 tbsp soy sauce, 1 1/2 tbsp black Chinese vinegar and 2 tbsp water.

Then, you mix the sauce with the shredded chicken meat and lay it over a bed of shredded iceberg lettuce, and 20g each of chopped coriander and mint. Sprinkle cucumber and spring onions on the top.