CANTONESE CHICKEN SALAD WITH CASHEWS

      Title: CANTONESE CHICKEN SALAD WITH CASHEWS
  Categories: Oriental, Salads, Poultry
       Yield: 6 Servings
  
       2 c  Peanut or vegetable oil
       2 oz Rice stick noodles
       1 tb Dry spicy mustard
   1 1/2 tb Water
       1 pn Sugar
       1 pn Salt
       1    Roast Chicken
            - Deli (Cantonese-style)
            - left whole
       4 tb Roast chicken juices
       2 ts Soy sauce
       1 tb Vinegar
       1 ts Asian sesame oil
       4    Green onions
            - mostly white section,
            - cut into
            - 2" long fine shreds
       1 bn Fresh coriander leaves
       2 tb Toasted sesame seeds
       6 c  Shredded iceberg lettuce
            -=OR=- Romaine lettuce
       1 c  Roasted cashews
  
   IN A WOK OR SMALL SAUCEPAN heat the oil to 375F. Pull noodles apart
   into 4 small batches. Add 1 small handful at a time into the hot oil.
   They should puff within a few seconds. If they do not, the oil is not
   hot enough. With chopsticks or tongs, remove noodles and drain on
   paper towel. Repeat with the remaining noodles. Lightly crumble
   noodles. Makes about 4 cups. In a small bowl, blend thoroughly the
   mustard, water, sugar and salt; set aside for at least 10 minutes.
   Open the cavity of the roast chicken; pour out the juices and add
   them to any juices accompanying the chicken. Strain and degrease the
   juice. Mix 4 tablespoons of the strained juice with soy sauce,
   vinegar and sesame oil; set aside. Remove the chicken meat from the
   bones. Hand shred by tearing the meat into 1/4-by-2-inch-long shreds.
   Cut skin into 1 1/2-inch long thin slivers. In a large bowl mix
   together the skin, chicken and reserved mustard mixture. Add the
   green onions, coriander, sesame seeds and reserved roasting juice
   mixture; toss together like a salad. Just before serving, add lettuce
   and cashews; toss together. Arrange over a bed of crumbled rice stick
   noodles. Serve at room temperature.
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