Summer Vegetable and Glass Noodle Salad
Description
This noodle salad, based on the Vietnamese vermicelli variety, has a brilliant, surprising flavor, especially for something so simple. Even though it has more ingredients than I regularly use–whisking together a homemade nuoc nam is a cinch, but does take a tablespoon of this and a tablespoon of that–none of them can be skipped.
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoons lime juice
- 3 tablespoons fish sauce
- 1 tablespoon light brown sugar or agave nectar
- 1 small garlic clove, finely grated
- 1 spicy chile, chopped
- 8 ounces rice vermicelli noodles, cooked according to package directions
- 2 cups shredded leftover roasted chicken, either store-bought rotisserie or homemade
- 2 cups sliced cucumber
- 1 cup finely grated carrot
- 1 cup grated golden beets
- 3 cups mixed herb leaves, like cilantro, basil and mint
- 1/4 cup chopped roasted peanuts
Directions
- Stir together lime juice, fish sauce, sugar, garlic, and chile in a large bowl with 3 tablespoons water. Add noodles, chicken, cucumber, carrot, beets, beans, herbs, and peanuts; toss everything together to coat the vegetable and the noodles in dressing.
