Ingredients:
☐ 1 batch of Char Siew Chicken or Pork, sliced (takes 40 mins to cook meat)
☐ 35g Vermicelli, 1 x bundle
☐ 2 cups Wombok (Asian) Cabbage, finely sliced
☐ 2 cups Baby Cos/Gem Lettuce, finely sliced
☐ ½ large Lebanese Cucumber, thickly sliced, & quartered (baby cucumbers are perfect – 1 per serve)
☐ 1 small Carrot, grated or julienned
☐ ½ Red Onion, sliced
☐ ¼ cup Bean Sprouts (canned or fresh)
☐ 8 tbsn Roll’d Nuoc Mam Sauce (2 tbsn per serving)
☐ Fresh Mint (about 2 sprigs or as desired)
☐ Fresh Coriander (about 2 sprigs – or as desired)
☐ ½ – 1 Red Chilli, sliced (optional)
☐ Sliced Spring Onion
☐ Unsalted Peanuts
Method:
- Marinade the chicken or pork the night before, and roast it on the day you are preparing these salads. Leave chicken or pork to cool then slice approx 4mm thick.
- Boil your jug and pour the ‘just boiled’ hot water over the vermicelli noodles in a bowl, place a lid or cover over (a saucepan lid is ideal) to let them steam until softened (approx. 5 minutes).
- While waiting for your noodles to soften, finely slice cabbage and lettuce into fine slices. Put a large pinch of each into a bowl or your lunch box.
- Slice cucumber into ½-1 cm slices and cut the circles, in quarter. Baby cucumbers are good for this, cut 1 baby cucumber per serve into approx 6 chunks. Put in the bowl.
- Grate a carrot and add a large pinch to your bowl.
- Cut your red onion into quarters – so you have four quarters. Finely slice, separate 4-6 quarter rings (more if desired) into your salad.
- Add a large pinch of bean sprouts on top.
- If serving straight away, add Nuoc Mam sauce, sliced chilli (if using), mint and coriander leaves. Toss the salad to combine. Top with crunchy noodles, spring onions and chopped peanuts to serve.
- If taking in a lunch box, you can make up 4 lunch box serves, but add the Nuoc Mam sauce just prior to eating. I keep a spare bottle of Nuoc Mam sauce in the fridge at work to add when I’m ready for lunch!
NB. If you have any chicken or pork leftovers in the fridge, add to salad, or want to add some protein, you can add a few chopped up chicken nuggets, or popcorn chicken on top, they’re great on top of this salad.
