Noodle salad.

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 to strong for your taste. As for the rest of it once you have every thing mixed together in a large bow it look 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 Choy
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 chilli
½tsp fish sauce

First you need to get your dressing made. Now if you have never made any thing like this before then you mix this to see if you like it. If it is to hot or spices you can away add more oil vinegar lime juice to take away the heat. Also if you do not like it to hot then make sure that you do not use all the chilli and that no seed get in the dressing.

Take the garlic, ginger and brown sugar and mix them all together. Now take your chilli 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 past and all the chilli 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 every thing combines and the sugar has dissolved. Then just let that sand so that all the flavours can combine to give a really sweet hot sharp dressing.

For the noodle just simply blanch then in boiling hot water. Once cooked tip in to ice cold water and the once cold drain the water off the noodles and mix them together. The egg noodle and the white of the rice noodle give 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 bow you are going to present the salad in and pick the leaves of the Pack Choy and lay them in the bottom of the bowl. Then present the noodle mix on top of the leaves.

Finally take the spring opinion 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.