Recipes Spicy Asian-Chicken-Salad Lettuce Cups 4.0 (1,754) 1 Review 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. More Fast Chicken Recipes By Melissa Rubel Jacobson Updated on June 28, 2017 Print Rate It Share Share Tweet Pin Email Photo: © Petrina Tinslay Total Time: 20 mins Yield: 12 lettuce cups Ingredients 1/2 cup mayonnaise 2 teaspoons sambal oelek or Chinese chile-garlic sauce 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard 1/2 teaspoon Asian sesame oil One 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 Directions 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. Suggested Pairing Spicy Asian dishes like this chicken salad tend to pair best with off-dry (i.e., lightly sweet) white wines. Riesling is one good option. Washington state is a great source for lime-scented Riesling. Another terrific choice is an off-dry Pinot Gris from New Zealand. Rate it Print