by Marcus Bentley Wise

Created on: March 23, 2010   Last Updated: March 25, 2010

This noodle salad has a bit of a kick to it but you can alter the spices on it if you find that the dressing is too strong for your taste. As for the rest of it once you have every thing mixed together in a large bow it looks very attractive and goes well with any kind of meat of fish.

You will need

85g/3oz of egg noodles

56g/2oz rice noodles

2 Pack Choi

1 carrot

1 red pepper

1 yellow pepper

1 green pepper

1 under ripe hard mango

Six or seven fine spring onions

One red onion

Small bunch of coriander

1tsp crushed garlic

1tsp crushed ginger

1tsp sesame oil

1tbsp soy sauce

2tbsp vegetable oil

1tsp brown sugar

2tsp lime juice

1tsp rice vinegar

1 red chili

½tsp fish sauce

First you need to get your dressing made. Now if you have never made anything like this before then you mix this to see if you like it. If it is too hot or spicey you can always add more oil, vinegar, or lime juice to take away the heat. Also if you do not like it too hot then make sure that you do not use all the chili and that no seeds get in the dressing.

Take the garlic, ginger and brown sugar and mix them all together. Now take your chili and dice it as fine as you can and add it to the mix. With a spoon mix this together so that you get a thick paste and all the chili is well crushed with the garlic, ginger and the sugar.  Then add the sesame oil, soy sauce, vegetable oil, rice vinegar, fish sauce and lime juice. Stir this round so that everything combines and the sugar has dissolved. Then just let that stand so that all the flavours can combine to give a really sweet, hot, sharp dressing.

For the noodles just simply blanch then in boiling hot water. Once cooked tip into ice cold water and once cold, drain the water off the noodles and mix them together. The egg noodle and the white of the rice noodle gives a nice contrast to the dish. Also you can break the noodles up slightly so that you do not get long stands of noodle dangling down as you eat the salad.

Then all you have to do is slice your vegetables, take you pepper and slice then as fine as you can. The same with you carrots. What you are looking for is long thin mach sticks of vegetables. Then take your red onion and slice that as thin as you can and add all the thin sliced vegetables with the noodles. Mix them all together so that you get a really colourful looking mix. Then take some of the dressing and toss the noodles and vegetables together coating every thing.

Now take the bowl you are going to present the salad in and pick the leaves of the Pack Choi and lay them in the bottom of the bowl. Then present the noodle mix on top of the leaves.

Finally take the spring onion and the under ripe mango and coriander. Dice them and add them to the rest of the dressing and add it to the top of the salad as a garnish.

And there you have it a real noodle salad that looks as good as it tastes.

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