Spicy Asian-Chicken-Salad Lettuce Cups Recipe at Cooking.com

By pattie_d

Use a store-bought rotisserie bird in her reinvented chicken salad. She spikes the mayonnaise with chile sauce and toasted sesame oil and adds water chestnuts for crunch.

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup  mayonnaise
• 2 teaspoons  sambal oelek  or Chinese chile-garlic sauce
• 1 teaspoon  Dijon mustard
• 1/2 teaspoon  Asian sesame oil
• 1 2 pound  rotisserie chicken —skin and bones discarded, meat pulled into bite-size pieces
• 1/3 cup  water chestnuts coarsely chopped
• 2 scallions white and green parts thinly sliced
• Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
• 12 Bibb or iceberg lettuce leaves
• 1 Hass avocado peeled and cut into 12 slices
• Lime wedges for serving

Preparation

Step 1

In a medium bowl, mix the mayonnaise with the sambal oelek, mustard and sesame oil. Stir in the chicken, water chestnuts and scallions and season with salt and pepper. Spoon the chicken salad into the lettuce cups and top with a slice of avocado. Serve with lime wedges.