Healthy prawn recipe for 4 people, takes only 10 mins; recipe has rice noodle, prawn, red onion, red chilli, cucumber, coriander, peanut, lime, brown sugar, fish sauce, garlic clove, shallot, vegetable oil and flour.
Vietnamese prawn & noodle salad with crispy shallots
Course: Healthy prawn
Servings
4
servings
Prep time
15 mins
Ingredients
- Coriander: 1 large handful each coriander and mint
- Vegetable Oil: vegetable oil, for frying
- Garlic Clove: 1 garlic clove, crushed
- Red Chilli: 1 small red chilli, sliced
- Red Onion: 1 small red onion, halved and sliced
- Lime: juice 3 limes
- Cucumber: 1 small cucumber, shaved into ribbons (use a peeler)
- Brown Sugar: 1 tbsp soft brown sugar
- Shallot: 5 shallots, thinly sliced
- Prawn: 200g large cooked, peeled prawn
- Fish Sauce: 2 tsp fish sauce
- Flour: flour, for dusting
- Peanut: 2 tbsp roasted peanut, roughly chopped
- Rice Noodle: 200g thin rice noodle
Directions
- For the crispy shallots, heat 5cm of oil until hot in a wok. You will know the oil is hot enough when one piece of shallot sizzles as soon as it's dropped in. Toss the shallot slices with flour, shake off excess and fry in the oil until golden. They fry quickly, about 1 min. Drain on kitchen paper, sprinkle with salt and set aside.
- To make the dressing, mix the lime juice, sugar, fish sauce and garlic and set aside. In a large mixing bowl, pour boiling water over the noodles. Leave them for 2 mins or until they are just cooked, then rinse under cold water. Drain well, shaking the sieve numerous times to get out the excess water, then place back in the bowl. Add prawns, onion, chilli, cucumber and herbs. Pour the dressing over, mix, then sprinkle with the shallots and peanuts.
