雞肉芝蔴拌涼麵 【時尚雜誌邀稿 (一)】 Chicken Sesame Noodle Salad 【Recipes for Vogue magazine ( 1 )】

两個月前有天我收到一封台灣 Vogue 雜誌給我的電郵。問我可不可以替她們六月展開的新. 食健主義活動設計 6 - 12 道食譜。

I received an email from Vogue Taiwan magazine a couple of months ago, asking me if I could design 6 - 12 recipes for their Health Initiative event starting in June.

Vogue 是我和女兒都會經常買來看的雜誌之一。它是世界上最有影響力的時裝雜誌。我們愛讀每篇每段有關時裝、美容、生活和專題攝影等等的圖片和文章。

所以當獲得邀請，知道將要和身處世界各地的另外 5 位女部落客，一同協助推廣這個健康飲食節目時，我沒半點猶疑。

My daughter and I both love Vogue. It's the world's most influential fashion magazine. We enjoy reading anything and everything from their columns about fashion, beauty, life styles, photography and so on.

So when I was invited to join forces with another 5 Chinese female bloggers from all over the world; to help launch this healthy eating awareness campaign. I didn't hesitate for a single moment.

我開始嘗試盡量用健康的方法烹飪已有多年。所以要我撰寫十二個左右，包括要用生果蔬菜做食材的便餐、簡單健康的輕食和低卡路里的甜點食譜的話；正好給我一個更認真去研究的機會。怎樣才可以煮得營養美味而不失烹飪樂趣的菜式。

我為這活動做和寫了 10 款食譜。它們已在 Vogue 的網址上刊登出來了。

由今天起，我會把替 Vogue 設計的食譜選 七款在這兒與大家分享。希望給你們，我親愛的 Rice Bowl Tales 讀者提供閱讀和保存這些健康美味食譜的方便。

今天第一道我要與大家分享的食譜是：雞肉芝蔴拌涼麵 。

Since I've always tried to cook healthily over the years, so to come up with  a dozen recipes which include dishes made up with fruit and vegetables, light meals, and low calorie desserts offered me the opportunity to look more into how to maintain a life time of sensible eating habits, but without losing all the fun and excitement in cooking.

I've cooked and written 10 recipes for the event. They are on the Vogue website now.

From today on, I will choose 7 out of the 10 healthy summer recipes that I've written for Vogue and post it  here on my blog to share with you. Hope to give my dear Rice Bowl Tales readers, the convenience of having the recipes on your finger tips.

The first one I'm going to share with you today is Chicken Sesame Noodle Salad.

涼麵又稱冷麵，是指涼吃的麵條。很多國家如中國、台灣、日本、韓國、東南亞各地和大城市如香港等都有吃涼麵的習慣；特別是在天氣熱不想吃飯時。用不同的麵條配以不同的蔬菜、肉類、海鮮和醬汁；可酸可辣、可鹹可甜。滋味真是千變萬化！

Many countries such as China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia and cities like Hong Kong, all have cuisines made up of cold noodle dishes.

During the hot summer months, using different types of seasonal vegetables to mix and match with different types of noodles, meat, seafood and sauces. You can have it sweet, sour, salty, spicy; the choices are endless!

雞肉芝蔴拌涼麵
( 4 人份 )

材料：

• 寬麵條 240g
• 麻油 1 湯匙
• 熟雞胸肉 2 塊片薄切絲
• 牙菜 240g 在滾水中川燙 20 秒，撈起瀝乾
• 櫻桃蘿蔔 radish 8 顆切片
• 青瓜 1 條用菜刨刨成寬條狀
• 小紅辣椒半隻切幼絲
• 用乾鍋烘至金黃的芝麻 2 湯匙或隨意
• 莞茜作裝飾

醬料汁：

• 蒜頭 2 粒剁蓉
• 薑指頭大小磨碎
• 麻油 1 湯匙
• 醬油 light soy sauce ( 生抽) 2 湯匙
• 米醋 2 湯匙
• 紅醋 2 湯匙
• 淺黄糖 4 茶匙
• 海鹽鮮磨黑椒試味適量

Chicken Sesame Noodle Salad
( serves 4 )

Ingredients:

• 240g wide rice  noodles
• 1 tbsp sesame oil
• 2 pieces cooked chicken breast shredded or julienned thinly
• 240g beansprouts blanched in boiling water for 20 seconds，drained and leave to one side
• 8 radishes thinly sliced
• 1 cucumber, cut length ways into strips using a vegetable peeler
• 1/2 red chilli thinly sliced
• 2 tbsp sesame seeds, briefly toasted in a hot, dry frying pan
• coriander to decorate

For the dressing:

• 2 cloves garlic crushed
• a thumb size piece ginger, peeled and grated
• 1 tbsp sesame oil
• 2 tbsp light soy sauce
• 2 tbsp rice vinegar
• 2 tbsp red vinegar
• 4 tsp light brown sugar
• sea salt and freshly ground black pepper to season

做法：

1. 根據包裝指示把麵煮好，冲冷水，打散瀝乾後，用麻油把麵撈遍，置於一旁備用。
2. 大深碟內把所有醬汁料加進拌勻。撥雞絲進汁內浸過，下麵條再翻覆拌好；加入蔬菜兜勻，灑下芝麻，用紅辣椒絲和莞茜裝飾上桌。

Method:

1. Cook the noodles according to the instructions on the packet, drain and refresh under cold water and drain again. Toss with the sesame oil and set aside.
2. Combine the dressing ingredients in a large plate/ bowl, and stir in the chicken. Toss the chicken and dressing with the noodles and scatter over the vegetables, sesame seeds. Served with the chilli and coriander sprinkled over the top.

大熱天時做一盤涼麵，與家人或朋友分享，吃得清涼透心！如果只需弄給自己品嚐，請照比例減少份量便可以了。

On a sweltering afternoon or evening, make a big dish of cold noodle; share it with family or friends. It would certainly help to keep you feeling cool and relaxed.

If you're making the noodle just for yourself, you can reduce the ingredients quantity accordingly.