
Asian Rice Noodle Salad
Ingredients
Sweet and Sour Soy Dressing:
Asian Rice Noodle Salad:
Instructions
Sweet and Sour Soy Dressing:
Recipe credit: https://www.blogtasticfood.com/asian-noodle-salad/
Ingredients
Sweet and Sour Soy Dressing:
- 4 tablespoons of light soy sauce or tamari
- 2 cilantro sprigs finely chopped
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons of rice wine vinegar
- 3½ tablespoons of lime juice
- One red chilli finely chopped
Asian Rice Noodle Salad:
- 200 g of thin rice noodles
- 100 g of snow peas
- 1 green onion
- 1 carrot washed and peeled
- 1 cucumber
- A few springs of mint chopped
- A handful of cilantro leaves chopped don't throw away the sprigs
- A handful of flat leaf parsley chopped
- 125 g of peanuts, cashews or sesame seeds (optional)
Instructions
Sweet and Sour Soy Dressing:
- Mix all of the ingredients in a bowl until the sugar has dissolved. Set aside to let the flavors infuse in the dressing.
- Boil plenty of water in a kettle. Put your rice noodles in a bowl and then cover with boiling water. Leave for 2 minutes then drain. Set them aside to cool.
- Cut the snow peas and the spring onion in into little thin matchsticks (julienne). Then use a speed peeler to peel long thin strips out of the carrot and the cucumber. Stack those strips on top of each other, and then cut the strips length ways.
- Mix the rice noodles, snow peas, spring onions, carrots, cucumber, chopped mint, chopped cilantro and chopped parsley in a large bowl.
- Get a pan over medium-high heat, then add your peanuts, cashews or sesame seeds. Toss/stir them every 30 seconds - 1 minute until they develop a light toasted colour (be careful not to burn them). Transfer the nuts to a pestle mortar, then crush into smaller pieces (Skip this step if using sesame seeds.
- Serve the salad in a bowl or serving platter with a pair of tongs. then serve the dressing and toasted crushed nuts on the side so people can help themselves.
Recipe credit: https://www.blogtasticfood.com/asian-noodle-salad/