Honey Soy Chicken Salad

Today has been a funny sort of day for a few different reasons. One of them is the fact that I am posting  2 entries in one day.
Why?
Because citizens, I have started cooking.
I know, to most of you this doesn't seem like a big deal but in Australia I pretty much never cook. My signature dish is spaghetti with Rosella Tomato Sauce (ketchup, mi-guk sarams) and grated cheese. But I have decided to branch out. I think I will make my Lunar New Year resolution to be try to cook more.
Now, I am limited to a stove top and a rice cooker (and a microwave) so I don't know how adventurous I will get, but here we go.

Disclaimer - I am not suggesting anyone try this. It is probably horrible. But I want to prove I am cooking things and trying to feed myself something other than rice. If you don't like the recipe fine I don't give a shit. Enjoy :)

Honey Soy Chicken Salad

This marinade is actually Mum's, but I have added mustard. I make all my meals for 1 *sobbing* so this won't feed many people but any leftovers are fine for another salad or in a sandwich or whatever.

Ingredients

• x1 chicken breast sliced up how ever you like it
• 1 tsp seeded mustard - any will do I suppose, the one I am using is one I got from E-Mart in the internation food section. It's actually dijon, Reine Dijon in the European section
• a decent squirt of honey - again I guess any is fine, mine is the cheapest one I could find
• a decent squirt of soy sauce - I use the low sodium low fat soy because sometimes I feel health concious. Hence the salad
• 1 tsp garlic powder
• half onion
• lettuce
• tomato
• capsicum (or peppers, for the mi-guk sarams)
• mushrooms
• etc etc - whatever salad you have in the fridge.

NB

Honey is ridiculously expensive in Korea. I paid 12,000won for a honey that might have been $6 at home. The Capilano honey in E-Mart made me trip over - nearly 30,000won for 600g of honey. 

Ingredients

My chicken in the marinade

Method

Preheat your pan and put a little bit of oil in. I use sesame oil because I don't have anything else. Place your bits of chicken on the pan and cook the chicken until its all white on the inside. Thats how you know chicken is cooked apparently.

DO NOT have your heat up too high. My stove top os electric so you need to keep your eye on how hot it gets. I have burned my marinade before which is ok is you like a bit of charcoal. Unless you are Korean then it means you will get cancer because you ate the burnt bit. 

While your chicken is cooking chop up your salad. Put it all in a bowl or onto a plate. Once the chicken is cooked drizzle the remaining marinade into the pan and get it nice and hot. Add the mushrooms and onion to the chicken and marinade mix.

Tip the whole lot over your delicious salad.

Yep I ate it out of the plastic bowl

Enjoy ;)

I hope no one gets food poisoning :|

xoxoxoxo