RECIPE

Spicy Asian-Chicken-Salad Lettuce Cups

  • ACTIVE:
  • TOTAL TIME: 20 MIN
  • SERVINGS: Makes 12 lettuce cups

Melissa Rubel Jacobson uses 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.

  • ACTIVE:
  • TOTAL TIME: 20 MIN
  • SERVINGS: Makes 12 lettuce cups
  • BASIC-EASY
  • HEALTHY
  • MAKE-AHEAD

Ingredients

  • Ingredients
    1. 1/2 cup mayonnaise
    2. 2 teaspoons sambal oelek or Chinese chile-garlic sauce
    3. 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
    4. 1/2 teaspoon Asian sesame oil
    5. One 2-pound rotisserie chicken—skin and bones discarded, meat pulled into bite-size pieces
    6. 1/3 cup water chestnuts, coarsely chopped
    7. 2 scallions, white and green parts thinly sliced
    8. Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
    9. 12 Bibb or iceberg lettuce leaves
    10. 1 Hass avocado, peeled and cut into 12 slices
    11. Lime wedges, for serving

Directions

  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.

Make Ahead

The chicken salad can be refrigerated for up to 2 days.