Asian Rice Noodle Salad with Sweet and Sour Soy Dressing
This salad is filled with fresh, vibrant ingredients and flavours. Works as the perfect side or appetizer.
Ingredients
Sweet and Sour Soy Dressing:
- 4 tablespoons of light soy sauce
- Coriander sprigs finely chopped
- 1½ tablespoons of palm sugar or brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons of rice wine vinegar
- 3½ tablespoons of lime juice
- One red chilli finely chopped
- 1/2 a stalk of lemon grass bruised and finely chopped
Asian Rice Noodle Salad:
- 200 g of vermicelli rice noodles
- 100 g of snow peas topped and tailed
- 1 spring onion
- 1 carrot washed and peeled
- 1 cucumber
- A few springs of mint chopped
- A handful of coriander leaves chopped don't throw away the sprigs
- A handful of flat leaf parsley chopped
- 125 g of peanuts
Instructions
Sweet and Sour Soy Dressing:
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Mix all of the ingredients in a bowl until the sugar has dissolved. Set aside to let the flavours infuse in the dressing.
Asian Rice Noodle Salad:
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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.
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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 lengthways (if you are confused by this step, look at the video or the photos on the blog post).
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Mix the Rice noodles, snow peas, spring onions, carrots, cucumber, chopped mint, chopped coriander and chopped parsley in a large bowl.
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Get a pan over medium-high heat, then add your peanuts. Toss/stir them every 30 seconds - 1 minute until they develop a light toasted colour (be careful not to burn them). Transfer the peanuts to a pestle mortar, then crush the peanuts into smaller pieces.
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Serve the salad in a bowl or serving platter with a pair of tongs. then serve the dressing and toasted crushed peanuts on the side so people can help themselves.
Recipe Video
Recipe Notes
- Don't steep the rice noodles in the boiling water for too long.
- Beware of people who may have peanut allergies.
- Make the dressing first so that you give time for the flavours to infuse and for the sugar to completely dissolve.