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The Cookbook Challenge: Week 10

Posted on | January 22, 2010 | Asian, Cookbook Challenge, Recipes | 10 Comments

Bean Thread Noodles and Prawn Salad 1

Theme : Cool
Çookbook :The Australian Women’s Weekly Beginners Thai
Recipe: Cold Prawn Salad

How appropriate that this week’s Cookbook Challenge’s theme is cool. With the temperatures in the 40’s I was very tempted to make a cold dessert of some sort for this week’s challenge, but I since I have over indulged a bit too much lately and was determined to stay away from making something sweet. I thought a refreshing cold salad would suit the cool theme. I settled on making this Thai noodle and prawn salad cause my girls loves noodles and I have not make anything from this particular cookbook that I bought many years ago.

I have not had bean thread noodle as a noodle dish before and this was a such a refreshing dish. Just don’t soak the noodles too long as they become too soft.

Cold prawn salad with bean thread noodles

Adapted from The Australian Women’s Weekly Beginners Thai

Ingredients

200g bean thread noodles
1 clove garlic, crushed
2 tablespoons fish sauce
1 tablespoon lime juice
2 teaspoons sugar
2 teaspoons peanut oil
1/4 cup coarsely chopped fresh coriander
2 fresh small red thai chilli, seeded, sliced thinly
1kg large cooked king prawns, peeled, deveined
1/4 cup coarsely chopped roasted unsalted peanuts
2 spring onions, sliced thinly

Method

1. Place noodles in large heatproof bowl; cover with boiling water. Stand until just tender; drain. Using kitchen scissors, cut noodles into random lengths.

2. Whisk garlic, sauce, sugar, lime juice and oil in small bowl to combine.

3. Add noodles to a large bow. Pour the sauce, peanuts, spring onion, coriander, chilli and prawns over the noodles and toss gently to combine.

Prawn and Bean Thread Noodle Salad

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Comments

10 Responses to “The Cookbook Challenge: Week 10”

  1. Rilsta @ My Food Trail
    January 27th, 2010 @ 8:54 pm

    Wow, that looks really fantastic! A great dish for the warm weather!

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  3. Cherrie
    January 27th, 2010 @ 10:57 pm

    This is so simple yet looks so delicious. I love those noodles.

  4. Yen
    January 27th, 2010 @ 11:22 pm

    @ Rista: Thank you. I thought it tasted better after the noodles were chilled in the fridge.

    @ Cherrie: Thank you. I think I will start using more of this noodles as noodle dishes.

  5. Bri
    January 28th, 2010 @ 10:36 am

    Beautiful presentation!

  6. Hannah
    January 28th, 2010 @ 1:53 pm

    I love salads with lime juice/fish sauce dressings; they’re so refreshing! This looks so easy to make, too :)

  7. Leigh
    January 28th, 2010 @ 2:39 pm

    Hi Yen – the prawns look fantastic and really vibrant. This looks very fresh and yummy.

  8. Yen
    January 28th, 2010 @ 9:32 pm

    @ Bri: Thank you.

    @ Hanah: Being a Vietnamese I love my fish sauce. I use the lime juice for a Thai twist.

    @ Leigh: Thank you.

  9. Helen
    May 8th, 2010 @ 9:05 pm

    There is a problem with the ingredient list.
    1) It says to add the … nuts, onion, (but these are not listed. (What kind of nots/onion and quantity please)

    and in the list of ingredients it says ‘… 1 large cooked king prawns”’ – 1 what lb kilo ???

    Also how many does this serve (as an appetizer)?

  10. Yen
    May 9th, 2010 @ 11:19 pm

    Hi Helen, thank you for your comment. I have updated the ingredient list. Sorry about that. This recipe serves 4 and it’s an appetizer.

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