The Smiling Chicken Salad

NUS students often get stress up when it comes to project. However, everyone was so hyped up for this cooking project. On the actual day, we met at Newton Mrt and realized our chicken was insufficient (Junyi was the one doing the grocery shopping). Moreover, we saw other groups carrying bouquets of flowers, straw baskets, and beautiful plates for decoration and we have …… none. In the end, we plucked some flowers (morning glory) on our way to Co Bich’s apartment to use it for our decoraton.

We started off with food preparation.

Here’s the task allocation of our group:

Huiteen aka the Master Chef
- Superb knives handling skill (most of the cutting is done by her)

Khai Yinn aka Professional Vegetable Washer
- The vegetables washed by her was spotless and clean (mind you, it’s an important job coz we are eating raw vegetables)

Cheng Xiang aka Fast Hand Chicken Peeler
- Peel the chicken to shreds at an amazing speed
- Assist in the cooking of the chicken

Jun Yi aka Secret Sauce Mixer
- Assist in the cooking of chicken
- Mixing of the secret sauce

While we are cooking, we send 2 of our most diplomatic members; Junyi and Cheng Xiang to borrow more chicken, lime, and cabbage from other groups, as our ingredients are running low. We finished our dish in 2hours, which is quite early and end up swatting flies. Unfortunately, Junyi and Huiteen have to leave early and didn't get a chance to taste othe fabulous dishes. Overall, we really enjoyed cooking and tasting the Vietnamese food together with friends. Through this cooking project, we get to know more Vietnamese food and how they actually taste like. Khai Yinn favourite’s Vietnamese food is pho’ and pink banana soup, partly because it is in pink (her favourite colour).

We would like to thank the teachers for organizing this event for us. Thank you very much!

Group Members: Jun Yi, Cheng Xiang, Huiteen, Khai Yinn

Here Our Secret Recipe:
Vietnamese Chicken Salad
Ingredients:
- Chicken breast: 200g
- Onion: 2 pieces
- Mint leaves and Coriander leaves
- Ginger, Garlic
- Rice vinegar, fish sauce, sugar, chilli, lime, salt, black pepper,seasame
Method:
- Boil chicken breast, add salt (a bit) and ginger
- Shred the cooked chicken into thin strips with your hands and place in a large bowl. Also chop chicken skin in to small pieces(not as small as the shredded chicken)
- Toss chicken with salt (1/2 tea spoon) + black pepper (1/4 tea spoon) + lime juice(1 table spoon) + sugar(1/2 table spoon)
- Wash onions and put in water for 15 mins, then chop into 4cm-long thin pieces. Finely toss with vinegar and put in same bowl with shredded chicken.
- Make the salad dressing: Vinegar(1 table spoon), lime juice(2 table spoon), fish sauce(2 table spoon), sugar(1 tea spoon), ginger(1 tea spoon), chilli (2 pieces, remove the seeds and finely chop), garlic (2 tea spoon, finely chopped), all mixed together in a mixing bowl until the sugar has dissolved
- Pour the dressing over the salad, add mint and coriander leaves and toss all the ingredients together until they are well combined
- Put in a nice plate, add some chopped chili and fried sesames for decoration
YOU ARE DONE !!!! :D