Prawn & Pink Grapefruit Noodle Salad

Take a healthy Vietnamese approach to salads by using cold vermicelli noodles with a sweet dressing, shellfish, coriander and mint

• Cooking Time Prep 25 mins
  
• Skill Level Easy
• Servings Serves 6

Nutrition per serving

• Kcalories

  228

• Protein

  13g

• Carbs

  38g

• Fat

  1g

• Saturates

  0g

• Fibre

  2g

• Sugar

  6g

• Salt

  1.6g

Ingredients

• 200g thin rice noodles (vermicelli)
• 12 cherry tomatoes, halved
• 1 tbsp fish sauce
• juice 1 lime
• 2 tsp palm sugar or soft brown sugar
• 1 large red chilli, ½ diced, ½ sliced
• 2 pink grapefruits, segmented
• ½ cucumber, peeled, deseeded and thinly sliced
• 2 carrots, cut into matchsticks
• 3 spring onions, thinly sliced
• 400g cooked large prawns
• large handful mint, leaves picked
• large handful coriander, leaves picked

Directions

1. Put the noodles in a bowl, breaking them up a little, and cover with boiling water from the kettle. Leave to soak for 10 mins until tender. Drain, rinse under cold running water, then leave the noodles to drain thoroughly.
2. In the same bowl, lightly squash the cherry tomatoes-we used the end of a rolling pin. Stir in the fish sauce, lime juice, sugar and diced chilli. Taste for the right balance of sweet, sour and spicy-adjust if necessary (see tip, below).
3. Toss through the noodles, then add all the remaining ingredients, except the sliced chilli. Season and give everything a good stir, then divide the noodle salad between 6 serving dishes and sprinkle over the chilli before serving.

Categories: All Christmas, Dishes, Healthy, Special Diets