Fresh Vietnamese Salad Recipe

Fresh Vietnamese Salad Recipe

by Danielle Minnebo March 19, 2019

Fresh Vietnamese Salad Recipe

By: Danielle Minnebo

The key to this salad is the Vietnamese mint! If you’ can’t find any, use a combination of Thai basil and normal mint.

Servings

4

Prep time

Cook time

Recipe

Ingredients

100g vermicelli rice noodles
1 cup chopped fresh coriander
½ cup chopped fresh Thai basil or Vietnamese mint
2 spring onions, finely sliced
1 cucumber, finely diced
1 red chilli, finely sliced
Dressing
Juice 2 limes
3 tbsp coconut palm sugar
1 tbsp fish sauce
½ clove garlic, crushed

Method

Add noodles to bowl, cover with warm water and set aside for 5 mins to soften. Drain noodles and add to large mixing bowl.
Add coriander, Thai basil, spring onion and cucumber to noodles. Toss together well and set aside.
To another bowl, add lime juice, coconut palm sugar, fish sauce and crushed garlic. Mix together and allow to sit for a few minutes until sugar has dissolved.
Taste dressing and make sure sweetness is balanced with sour from lime juice and saltiness from fish sauce. Depending on how sour your limes are, you may need to add another teaspoon of coconut palm sugar.
Add dressing to noodle salad and toss together until combined. Top with sliced red chilli and serve.

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#Tags: Nutrition, Recipes, salad, vietnamese

Danielle Minnebo

Danielle is a university-qualified nutritionist, a passionate home cook and founder of Food to Nourish. Danielle’s love affair with cooking started at a very young age in the kitchen where she was taught to cook by her mother. Danielle is passionate about helping people form a better understanding of nutrition and a healthier relationship with the food they eat. In fact, she’s on a mission to help spread the real food message to as many people as possible. Throughout her work as a nutritionist, Danielle’s basic principles have always come back to how we cook and prepare our food. She believes it really is as simple as combining wholefood ingredients in the right way to create tasty dishes that are nutrient-dense and full of flavour.