Pasta Chicken Salad With Peanuts

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Ingredients:

3 small whole chicken breasts
1 lb linguine, in 6 lengths
1 small green pepper, julienned
1 small sweet red pepper - julienned
4 scallions, finely sliced
1 cup salted chopped peanuts - roasted

VINAIGRETTE

1 lemon, juice of
2 tbsp dijon mustard
2 tbsp brown sugar
2 garlic cloves, minced
2 tbsp chopped fresh ginger root - (finely, chopped)
1/4 cup to 1/3 c. red wine vinegar
1/3 cup sesame oil
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1/3 cup olive oil
1 salt and pepper, to taste

GARNISH

1 cucumber
1 watercress

Instructions:

Poach chicken breasts in lightly salted water or chicken broth until
done, about 10 minutes. (Or season the chicken with salt and pepper
and bake it at 375 F. for 25 minutes). When chicken is cool, remove
the meat from the bones and slice the meat thinly against the grain.

Cook linguine in salted water according to package instructions.
Rinse with cold water to cool. Drain linguine.

Place the chicken, linguine, peppers, scallions and peanuts in a large
bowl.

Prepare vinaigrette by whisking together all the ingredients.
Gradually pour the dressing over the salad; mix well. Garnish with
cucumber slices (peel the cucumber, cut it in half, remove the seeds
and slice it) and watercress sprigs.

Recipe from Eichelbaum & Company/San Francisco, CA. In _The New
Carry-Out Cuisine_ by Phyllis Meras with Linda Glick Conway. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986. Pg. 228. ISBN 0-395-42504-2.
Electronic format by Cathy Harned.

Servings: 6

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for weight loss
and dieting

Healthy eating is far better than strict dieting, and weight loss achieved by a change of lifestyle lasts far longer than 'faddy' diets that are difficult to adopt for long periods.

Cooking more low fat chicken can enable you to lose weight gradually as part of a a controlled and healthy diet.

Fables "The Milkmaid and her Pail" "Don't count your chickens before they are hatched." - Aesop