Chicken and Rice Salad with Poached Radishes and Nuoc Cham

Ingredients

• For the nuoc cham
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 3 tablespoons fish sauce
• 1 tablespoon lime zest
• 3 tablespoons freshly squeezed lime juice
• 1 garlic clove, sliced
• 2 red or green Thai chiles, halved lengthwise, and sliced into half moons
• For the salad
• 1 bunch radishes (about 12), cleaned, trimmed, and cut in quarters (or half if they're tiny)
• 2 tablespoons butter
• Salt and freshly ground pepper
• 1 1/2 cups shredded chicken (sometimes I buy a rotisserie chicken for this very purpose)
• 1 cup cooked long-grain brown rice
• 2 cups watercress, baby kale, or other spicy green
• 1 cup chopped cilantro leaves and stems

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