Chicken Salad with Miso Dressing

Serves: 2

Ingredients:

Dressing

  • 1 tablespoon soy sauce
  • 1 tablespoon tahini
  • 1 tablespoon white miso
  • 2 teaspoons fish sauce
  • ¾ teaspoon toasted sesame oil
  • Pinch of sugar
  • 2 limes, juiced
  • 1 large egg yolk
  • ¾ cup vegetable oil, divided

Salad

  • 4 slices bacon
  • 1.5 inch piece ginger, peeled, cut into very thin matchsticks
  • 500g poached chicken breast
  • Mixed salad leaves
  • 2 spring onions, sliced
  • Toasted sesame seeds

Instructions

Dressing

  • Whisk soy sauce, tahini, miso, fish sauce, sesame oil, sugar, and juice of 1 lime in a small bowl until smooth.
  • Whisk egg yolk and remaining lime juice in a medium bowl to combine.
  • Gradually and slowly stream in ½ cup oil, whisking constantly until mayonnaise is thick.
  • Still whisking constantly, gradually add soy sauce mixture, and then the remaining ¼ cup oil.

Salad

  • Cook bacon in a dry medium skillet over medium heat, until brown and crisp. Transfer to a plate.
  • Add the slice spring onions to the bacon oil pan and cook until slightly charred
  • Cook ginger in a small saucepan of boiling water 1 minute. Drain ginger and rinse under cold water; set aside.
  • Toss chicken and ½ the dressing in a large bowl to coat. Add mixed salad leaves and spring onions and add the other ½ of the dressing and toss again; season with salt and pepper. Top with bacon, ginger and sesame seeds.