Thai Noodle Salad - only for those who like some heat! (Healthy Recipes)

Member Name: fergusa

Product:	Healthy Recipes
Date:	25/06/09 (104 review reads)
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Advantages: Delicious, and quick & easy to make.

Disadvantages: Be careful what you do with those chilli chopping fingers!

This Thai Noodle salad is a mix of a few recipes which I have tried in the past, I think I've finally cracked it, this is a great little dish for a light lunch or served with grilled chicken, prawns or beef for a more substantial meal.

I have listed this under Healthy Recipes as it is mainly raw salad ingredients, it does include a commercial sweet chilli sauce which does have sugar in it (I use a Waitrose one which has 67 calories and 15.8g sugar per 30ml serving). Still - life's a bit more exciting with some spice!!

As the salad has chilli/chilli sauce it can be quite spicy, but the amount of chilli can be reduced, if needed. It only takes 10 minutes of chopping and mixing to put together. Quantity here serves two. It does seem to be best if dressed immediately prior to eating otherwise some of the herbs tend to wilt.

I recently served it with skewered chilli prawns at a barbeque and had lots of compliments about it. Hope you enjoy it too.


**Ingredients
For the salad:
1 Carrot and half a Cucumber sliced into long thin slices.
4 Tomatoes - sliced or quartered.
Watercress - one bag or large bunch.
Coriander leaves - one handful.
Mint leaves - one handful.
Rice noodles - enough for 2 people.

For the dressing
Sweet chilli sauce - 2 tblspns (buy at most supermarkets)
Juice of one lime.
Thinly sliced red chilli - I use half of a small one but would suggest you start with a small amount and add to taste.
Sugar - a pinch (just normal granulated will do).
Thai fish sauce (Nam Pla) - 2 tblspns.

**Method
Mix all the dressing ingredients together and put to one side.

Wash and chop the salad ingredients, place these in the serving bowls with the cooked, and slightly cooled, noodles.

If you are adding meat/prawns, grill these now.

Dress the salad just before serving. Top with sliced meat or skewered prawns, if using.

Summary: Simple and healthy with lots of taste.