Salads with chicken and funchoz

Funchoza is already familiar to many fans of Asian cuisine and supporters of healthy eating. This nourishing and at the same time low-calorie product is made from starch obtained from beans, it is rich in vegetable protein and useful microelements, vitamins. The neutral taste of starch noodles makes it an ideal product for the preparation of multi-component salads. Often one of the main ingredients in them is chicken. Salads with chicken and funchoza look appetizing, well saturated, have an exquisite taste and do not threaten to gain weight. Another advantage is their ease of preparation.

Cooking Features

If you are thinking about what an unusual dish you can cook quickly, so that it is nourishing, but not too high in calories, you should take a look at the recipes of salads from funchozy and chicken. The process of their preparation has its own specifics, but not complicated. And the taste of these snacks is pleasant not only to admirers of oriental cuisine.

• If you haven’t had to cook a funchoza before, then you are almost certainly worried about the question of how much and how to cook it. The time depends on the thickness of the noodles, but never exceeds 4 minutes. Often enough 2-3 minutes. Dip starch noodles in boiling water, before this is not washed - in this process of cooking funchozy is no different from cooking pasta. It is even easier to cook thin funchoz: it is enough to pour boiling water on it and leave it for 5-7 minutes.
• Funchoza has one unpleasant property: it is worth getting it out of the water, it immediately sticks together. The problem is solved simply: when cooking “glass” noodles, a tablespoon of vegetable oil is added to the pan.
• They boil funchoza in plenty of water. 100 g of dry noodles require at least a liter of liquid.
• Sometimes funchoza is sold in the form of skeins. They are tied with a thread before immersion in boiling water. The rest of the process of cooking such noodles is no different from cooking funchozy, having the form of spaghetti.
• After cooking, the funchose is cut into pieces of the desired length. Do this with a sharp knife or scissors. Breaking funchozu before cooking is not accepted.

A chicken for a funchoza salad can be cooked in different ways. A set of additional ingredients depends on the recipe, the taste of the dressing used. The result is dishes that are a little similar to each other in taste. This allows you to significantly diversify the menu.

Chicken, Funchoz and Pineapple Salad

Caloric content of the dish: 1640 kcal, per 100 g: 158 kcal.

Composition:

• funchoze - 150 g;
• canned pineapple - 150 g;
• cheese - 0, 2 kg;
• tomatoes - 0, 3 kg;
• chicken breast fillet - 0, 2 kg;
• sesame seeds, soy sauce - to taste;
• ginger root - 10-15 g;
• vegetable oil - 20 ml.

Method of preparation:

• From a jar of pineapples, pour 50 ml of syrup.
• Grate the chopped ginger root in a grater, add to the syrup. This mixture will be used as a dressing.
• Prepare Funchoza in the manner recommended by its manufacturer. Cool and cut into fragments no longer than 5 cm, put in a bowl.
• Wash chicken fillet, cut along into 2-3 pieces.
• Lightly browse the chicken in the hot oil, cover with water and soy sauce. Simmer on low heat until the chicken fillet begins to resemble a stew. Cool it and divide into fibers, put to funchoze.
• Pineapples, tomatoes and cheese cut into small cubes, put to the main ingredients.
• Season mixed with ginger syrup.
• Fry the sesame seeds in a dry frying pan, sprinkle the salad with them when serving.

The taste of the salad prepared according to this recipe is unique. At first it may seem unusual and excessively sweet, but very soon its unusual harmony becomes understandable and pleasant. Chances are that, having made such a snack at least once, you will start cooking it quite often.

Chicken salad with rice noodles and cherry tomatoes

Caloric content of the dish: 1685 kcal, per 100 g: 150 kcal.

Composition:

• funchoz - 0, 25 kg;
• Iceberg lettuce - 0, 25 kg;
• chicken breast fillet - 0, 2 kg;
• cherry tomatoes - 0, 2 kg;
• onions - 100 g;
• vegetable oil - 60 ml;
• grape vinegar (6 percent) - 60 ml;
• sugar, ground pepper, soy sauce - to taste.

Method of preparation:

• Prepare the funchose in the manner indicated on the packaging. After cooling, cut it into pieces of approximately 7-8 cm, fold into a bowl.
• Free from onions peel, cut into thin half-rings.
• Wash, dry with a napkin, cut into thin strips of chicken fillet. Sprinkle it with spices. Marinate in a mixture of soy sauce and vinegar, taking them and a half tablespoons.
• Heat a tablespoon of oil in a frying pan, put onions in it, fry until golden brown.
• Add another half spoonful of butter and pieces of chicken. Cook them until ready. Transfer to a plate, let cool, mix with funchozy.
• Divide the salad into leaves. Wash and dry them, coarsely chop them with a knife, put half in a bowl with funchoza and chicken.
• Wash tomatoes and blot with a napkin. Cut in half. Leave a few pieces to decorate the snack, put the rest in a bowl to other products, mix gently.
• Put the remaining lettuce leaves on a dish, put a snack on them.
• Mix the remaining oil and vinegar. Add sugar, pepper and soy sauce. Whisk with a whisk.
• Pour the salad over the cooked sauce.
• Spread tomato halves around the perimeter.

Salad made according to this recipe will be much tastier if allowed to brew for half an hour.

Salad with Chicken, Funchoza and Bell Peppers

Calorie dishes: 1443 kcal, per 100 g: 124 kcal.

Composition:

• chicken meat - 0, 2 kg;
• funchoz - 150 g;
• Bulgarian pepper - 0, 4 kg;
• carrots - 150 g;
• onions - 100 g;
• water - 100 ml;
• table vinegar (9 percent) - 10 ml;
• garlic - 3 cloves;
• vegetable oil - 40 ml;
• salt, pepper - to taste.

Method of preparation:

• Boil the chicken meat, cool, cut into strips and fold into a bowl.
• Boil the funchoza or steam it until tender. Rinse, cut into 4 cm pieces, put in another bowl.
• Wash carrots, peel and dry them with a napkin. Grind grated for cooking Korean snacks. If there is no such grater in the kitchen, carrots can be sliced ​​into thin strips with a knife or chopped on a regular grater.
• Put grated carrots to funchoze.
• Onion, freeing from the husk, cut into thin quarters of rings, combine with funchoza and carrots.
• Heat the water, mix it with vegetable oil, vinegar, salt, pepper and garlic passed through the press.
• Fill the mixture with funchoza with carrots and onions, leave for half an hour, then drain the excess liquid.
• Add chicken to funchose.
• Peppers wash, peel off seeds, cut into thin quarters of rings, combine with other ingredients.

It remains to shift the appetizer to a salad bowl and serve it to the table. She has a spicy taste, typical of Asian cuisine. If you replace the boiled chicken in this recipe with smoked chicken, the appetizer will get an even more savory taste.

Salad with chicken and funchoza and curry

Caloric content of the dish: 1511 kcal, per 100 g: 143 kcal.

Composition:

• chicken fillet - 0, 2 kg;
• funchoz - 150 g;
• soy sauce - 40 ml;
• vegetable oil - 60 ml;
• curry seasoning - 5-10 g;
• carrots - 100 g;
• onions - 100 g;
• Bulgarian pepper - 0.2 kg;
• fresh cucumber - 0, 2 kg.

Method of preparation:

• Prepare the funchose, cut into small pieces, put in a bowl.
• Cut the cucumber into straws, send to funchoze.
• Cut chicken into strips, cover with a spoon of soy sauce. Marinate a quarter of an hour.
• Mix the remaining sauce with a spoonful of vegetable oil, pour a mixture of funchoza and cucumber, mix.
• Cut the carrots into thin, long strips.
• Pepper cut into strips.
• Onion cut into half rings.
• Fry the chicken in the remaining butter, sprinkle it with curry.
• Add onions, carrots and peppers, fry them with chicken for 5 minutes. Cool and combine with funchoza and cucumber.

Give the snack a brew, transfer to a salad bowl and serve. Snack has a pleasant sweet-sour taste, appetizing color.

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