Chinese Chicken Salad With Pasta recipe

Ingredients:
3/4 lb Fettucine
12 oz Cooked chicken or smoked

-chicken
4 Scallions; thinly sliced
2 tb
Oriental sesame oil - (to 3
-tbspns)
2 tb Rice
vinegar - (to 3 tbspns)
2 ts Chinese chili paste with

-garlic
1/4 c Chunky peanut butter
Salt; to
taste
Crushed red pepper; to taste
Spinach
leaves; as a bed for
- salad
2 Kirby cucumbers;
peeled,
-seeded,
and grated for garnish

Chopped peanuts and/or
-cilantro lea; for garnish,

(optional)

Procedures:
Boil the pasta until al dente, about 10
minutes.
While the water is coming to a boil for the pasta and the pasta
itself is
cooking, cut the chicken into strips about 2 inches long and
1/4-inch wide.
In the bottom of a mixing bowl combine the scallions,
sesame oil, rice
vinegar, chili paste and peanut butter. Whisk until
smooth and season with
salt and crushed red pepper. Add more of any
ingredient to make it taste
as you wish.
Add the chicken. When the
pasta is done, drain and rinse it under cold
water to stop the cooking
process and pat dry. Add the pasta to the bowl,
toss the ingredients
together and adjust the seasoning.
Transfer the salad to a platter lined
with spinach leaves (dressed or
not as you wish with a vinaigrette or
favorite salad dressing). Garnish
with cucumbers, peanuts or
cilantro.