Bang bang chicken bowl
- Serves 4
- Prep time: 10 mins | Cooking time: 10 mins
This recipe uses the Bang Bang Chicken Simply Dinner meal kit from PAK'nSAVE. Browse all recipes here.
Dinner's in the bag with our easy Simply Dinner meal kit to feed 4, available at selected PAK'nSAVE stores. This easy, Chinese-inspired recipe will have dinner on the table in just 30 mins! It's light and fresh with loads of flavour. All the ingredients including a specially made Yum Yum sauce is in the bag.
Ingredients
250g vermicelli noodles
400g chicken breast
2 large carrots
1 telegraph cucumber
1 bag salad leaves
200g Annabel’s Go To Yum Yum Sauce
salt, sugar and pepper
70g chopped peanuts
Optional
Fresh coriander or mint.
Method
Place noodles in a bowl and cover with boiling water. Put to one side to soak while you prepare the chicken.
Cut chicken breast lengthwise into 4 strips of roughly even thickness. If using pre-diced chicken, you will not need to cut it up. Place in a pot with 1 tsp salt and cover with cold water by 5cm (chicken needs to be well submerged). Bring to a boil over high heat. As soon as liquid boils reduce temperature to the lowest heat and simmer for 5 minutes. Remove from heat, and stand for 5 minutes, until ready to use.
While chicken cooks, peel carrots and either cut into ribbons with vegetable peeler or coarsely grate. Season carrots with a pinch each of salt and sugar. Use a vegetable peeler to cut cucumber into ribbons or halve and thinly slice. Place vegetables and salad leaves in a large bowl.
Drain noodles and use a pair of clean scissors or a clean knife to snip in several places so they are easy to eat. Add noodles to the vegetables and salad, season with a little salt and pepper and gently toss to combine.
Drain chicken and shred into bite-sized pieces.
To Serve
Combine noodles, vegetables, salad, and half the chicken and divide between 4 serving bowls. Divide the rest of the chicken over the top. Drizzle a little of Annabel’s Yum Yum Sauce over each serve and top with chopped peanuts. Serve remaining sauce in a small bowl for people to help themselves.
Optional
If using optional herbs, sprinkle some through the salad and use the rest as garnish with the peanuts.