Chicken Salad with Hoisin Dressing

Name: Chicken Salad with Hoisin Dressing
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 2 , whole bone-in, skin-on chicken breasts (large, at least 1 1/2 pounds each); 1 tablespoon, vegetable oil; , Table salt; 1/3 cup, rice vinegar; 1 1/2 tablespoons, soy sauce; 3 tablespoons, hoisin sauce; 1 tablespoon, minced fresh ginger; 1 tablespoon, toasted sesame oil; 3 tablespoons, vegetable oil; 2 medium ribs, celery, cut into small dice; 2 , medium scallions, white and green parts, minced; 2 tablespoons, minced fresh cilantro leaves or parsley leaves

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated July/August 1997

Roasted chicken breasts and hand-shredding deliver a superb salad.

SERVES6

TIME1¼ hours

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

To perfect our chicken salad recipe so that our chicken actually tasted good, not bland or waterlogged, we tried wet cooking methods, including poaching and steaming, roasting in foil (which is similar to steaming), and, in a method new to ...

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