Cold Shredded Vegetables With Chicken

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Ingredients:

2 large leeks
3 green onions
2 small zucchini
2 small carrots
2 long seedless type cucumbers
1 long white radish
2 wood ear black fungus
1 egg
1 tbsp peanut oil
1/2 cup cooked chicken meat
2 medium tomatoes
1 sauce:
1 tsp juice of ginger root
1 tsp dry mustard
2 tsp sugar
1 1/2 tbsp thin soy sauce
1 1/2 tbsp sesame oil
1 1/2 tsp chinkiang vinegar
1 tbsp freshly squeezed tomato juice

Instructions:

Prepare Dressing: In mixing bowl, mix mustard & sugar; gradually add
thin soy sauce, blend to avoid lumping. Squeeze some peeled ginger
root through a garlic press to extract juice. Squeeze juice from
tomato. Add other sauce ingredients; stir well and set aside.

Prepare salad: Wash, then soak, wood ear fungus in 3 cups warm water
for 1 hour. Beat egg; fry very thin omelet in large skillet greased
with peanut oil. Fry both sides gently. Set aside to cool.

Trim leeks, green onions, zucchini, carrots & white radish. Cut ends
off cucumber, but don`t peel. Peel carrots & radish. Shred
vegetables with shredder or cleaver. Wash tomatoes & cut each into
eighths. Shred chicken with fingers. Thinly slice omelet into
strips. Pour boiling water over fungus & drain. Cut out hard center
& cut floppy ears into thin strips.

Finish: Layer shredded vegetables in center of serving plate,
mounding slightly as you build layers of cucumber, carrot, chicken,
fungus, zucchini, egg, leeks, radish, green onion & so on, ending
with cucumber. Arrange tomatoe wedge around outer edge. Working from
center of vegetable mound, arrange egg strips like spokes of a wheel.
Add dressing and serve.

Servings: 6

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Chicken is ideal
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.

"The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg - not by smashing it." - Arnold Glasow