Vietnamese · Lunch
Vietnamese Chicken Cabbage Salad
Goi Ga Bap Cai
Vietnamese chicken cabbage salad of poached chicken thigh shredded with crisp cabbage, carrot, and red onion in a fish sauce, lime, and chilli dressing, finished with rau ram, mint, peanuts, fried shallot, and shrimp crackers.
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15 minsPrep
25 minsCook
40 minsTotal
EasyLevel
Nutrition per serving
520Calories
28gProtein
32gFat
28gCarbs
8gSugar
3gFiber
1050mgSodium
85mgChol
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Instructions
1
Prep
Halve ginger and shallot lengthwise. Mince garlic, slice red chillies into rings, slice red onion into thin rings, peel carrot into matchsticks, thinly slice cabbage, and pick herb leaves from stems. Crush peanuts coarsely with knife side.
2
Boil
Bring 1000ml water with ginger, shallot, and 1 tsp salt to a boil over high heat 3 minutes. Drop chicken in, bare simmer over low heat 20 minutes until juices run clear when pierced at thickest point.
3
Build 1
Lift chicken into ice water 2 minutes until fully chilled, drain, then shred meat into long thin strands with two forks. Whisk fish sauce, lime juice, sugar, garlic, and chilli rings 1 minute until sugar dissolves.
4
Build 2
Toss red onion with 2 tsp dressing off the heat 5 minutes until rings turn glossy magenta. Heat oil in small saucepan over medium heat 3 minutes until 180C.
5
Fry
Drop shrimp crackers in one at a time, fry 5 seconds each until crackers puff to triple size and turn pale and crisp. Drain on paper towel.
6
Finish
Toss cabbage, carrot, and chicken off the heat 2 minutes with remaining dressing, pickled red onion, rau ram, mint, and black pepper until evenly coated and ribbons soften.
7
Plate
Mound salad on plates, scatter crushed peanuts and fried shallot over top, tuck shrimp crackers around edge, and serve immediately while cabbage holds its crisp bite.
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Serves
2 portions ·
2 adults, 0 over 10, 0 under 10
Ingredients
- 440g (15.5 oz) boneless chicken thigh
- 60g (2.1 oz) fresh ginger
- 60g (2.1 oz) shallot
- 1000ml (1 quart) cold water
- 1 tsp fine sea salt
- 400g (14.1 oz) green cabbage
- 120g (4.2 oz) carrot
- 120g (4.2 oz) red onion
- 1/4 cup fish sauce
- 1/4 cup fresh lime juice
- 2 tbsp granulated sugar
- 6 garlic cloves
- 2 fresh red bird chilli
- 20g (large handful) rau ram Vietnamese coriander
- 16g (large handful) Vietnamese mint
- 40g (1.4 oz) roasted peanuts
- 10g (0.5 oz) fried shallot
- 40g (1.4 oz) dried shrimp crackers
- 400ml (1 3/4 cup) neutral oil
- 1 tsp ground black pepper