Prawn Black Rice Salad With Vietnamese Dressing Recipes

VIETNAMESE RICE NOODLE SALAD

Steps:

• Mince the garlic with the cilantro and the hot pepper. Transfer the mixture to a bowl, add the lime juice, fish sauce or salt and sugar; stir well. Let the sauce sit for 5 minutes.
• Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add the rice noodles; boil them for 2 minutes. Drain well. Rinse the noodles with cold water until they have cooled. Let them drain again.
• Combine the sauce, noodles, carrots, cucumber, mint and Napa cabbage in a large serving bowl. Toss well and serve the salad garnished with the peanuts and mint sprigs.

PRAWN & BLACK RICE SALAD WITH VIETNAMESE DRESSING

Steps:

• Sauce: Mix all ingredients together -- Easy.
• Salad: Follow cooking instructions on the packet of rice. Drain thoroughly or your rice will be runny.
• Poach the prawns in simmering salted water, in which the juice of the lemon is added. Poach for approximately 5 minutes or until just cooked through but still very tender.
• Let rice and prawns cool and then mix the sauce through. (or serve hot).

PRAWN AND BLACK RICE SALAD WITH VIETNAMESE DRESSING

Steps:

• Dressing:.
• To make the dressing sauce, simply mix all the ingredients together.
• Black Rice:.
• Cook as per the instructions on the packet.
• Usually 25-30 minutes.
• Prawns:.
• Poach the prawns for 5 minutes in some simmering salted water to which you have added the juice of half a lemon.
• Cook the prawns until they are JUST cooked through but still very tender.
• Let both the rice and the prawns cool.
• Then give the dressing sauce a quick stir and spoon some over the rice, fork this through.
• Then tumble the prawns on top, spooning a little the remainder of the sauce over.
• Serves 2 as a main dish and 4 as a starter.

RICE-STICK NOODLE SALAD WITH VIETNAMESE SHRIMP

Steps:

• Make dressing:
• In a bowl stir together all dressing ingredients until sugar is dissolved. Chill dressing, covered, 1 hour.
• Shell and devein shrimp. In a large saucepan of salted boiling water cook shrimp with lemon 2 minutes, or until just cooked through. In a colander drain shrimp and rinse under cold water to stop cooking. Halve shrimp lengthwise.
• Halve cucumber lengthwise and seed. Cut cucumber halves and scallions crosswise into 2 1/2-inch pieces and cut pieces lengthwise into julienne strips.
• In a bowl soak noodles in hot water to cover 15 minutes to soften. While noodles are soaking, in a 6-quart kettle bring 3 1/2 quarts salted water to a boil. Drain noodles in colander and cook in boiling water 45 seconds, or until just tender. Drain noodles in colander and rinse under cold water to stop cooking. Drain noodles well and with scissors cut into 4-inch lengths.
• Divide noodles, shrimp, vegetables, and dressing among 4 bowls and sprinkle with herbs and peanuts. To eat, pull herbs from sprigs and toss with noodles.

VIETNAMESE PRAWN SALAD

Steps:

• To make the dressing, mash the garlic, chilli and sugar using a pestle and mortar. Add the lime juice and 3 tbsp water and stir together. Set aside.
• Get the kettle on, put the noodles into a bowl, then cover with boiling water. Leave to stand for 10 mins until tender, then drain and divide between 2 bowls. 3 Mix the prawns and veg together and divide between the bowls, too. Finish by topping each salad with the herbs and peanuts, then pour over the dressing to serve.