Nutty chicken salad in phyllo shells
 
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Chic appetizer shells filled with nutty chicken salad
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Recipe type: Appetizer
Cuisine: Fusion
Serves: 8
Ingredients
  • ½ pound Chicken Breast cut in small pieces
  • 2 cloves of garlic
  • 3-4 teaspoon lemon juice
  • 1 teaspoon oil
  • ½ cup Red Onion chopped
  • ½ cup cilantro chopped
  • 1 cup peanut, roasted in sea salt
  • 4-5 Green chilies thinly chopped
  • Lemon juice to taste
  • Black salt to taste
  • Phyllo shells
Instructions
  1. Steps to cook chicken:
  2. Heat pan and add oil.
  3. Sauté garlic until slightly brown.
  4. Add chicken pieces and cook in medium heat until tender. Add water if needed.
  5. Add lemon juice and mix well with chicken.
  6. Cook until very tender. Chicken should be tender enough to shred with a fork.
  7. Set shredded chicken aside.
  8. Steps to make salad:
  9. Mix onion, cilantro, green chili, lemon juice and black salt.
  10. Add chicken.
  11. Steps to assemble shells:
  12. Thaw phyllo shells.
  13. Add peanuts to the salad just before serving.
  14. Spoon salad to shells.
Notes
You can add cubed grilled chicken.
Adjust chili, salt and lemon juice according to taste.
Add nuts just before filling the shells so the peanuts do not get mushy.
Recipe by WithASpin at https://withaspin.com/2013/01/21/game-day-food-nutty-chicken-shells/