Chicken Orzo Salad

With the warm weather here, this is a good recipe to make and eat cold on those warm evenings when you just don't feel like cooking. It can be made in the morning while it is still cool and then just pulled out at dinner time.  


Once I discovered hoisin sauce and rice wine vinegar last year I started adding it to all kinds of recipes including just plain vegetable stir-fries. Here is another great way to use it.

Ingredients:
1 pkg orzo
2-1/2 cups diced cooked chicken
1 pkg sugar snap peas, fresh or frozen
3 green onions, chopped
1 med. red bell pepper, diced
1/2 cup grape tomatoes
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
1-1/2 teaspoons hoisin sauce
1/8 cup  rice wine vinegar
2 tablespoons low sodium soy sauce

Directions:
Cook and drain orzo and sugar snap peas in separate pots.

In a large bowl, combine first seven ingredients. Then in a small bowl, whisk together oil, hoisin sauce, vinegar and soy sauce. Pour over into the large bowl with the other ingredients and mix together. Cover and chill until ready to serve.