CRISP & CRUNCHY VIETNAMESE STYLE SALAD

My home is only a few hundred metres from Melbourne’s “Little Vietnam”, a lively strip of mainly Asian grocery shops, fresh seafood sellers, green grocers and pork butchers. Interspersed among the produce stockists are lively cafes, busy from late morning until the wee small hours, serving traditional Vietnamese dishes, fresh clean flavours fragrant with herbs. We love this salad dubbed coleslaw, the fresh flavours and crunchy textures, sometimes served with prawns or poultry sometimes without, make it a perfect stand alone hot night dinner.

VIETNAMESE STYLE  “COLESLAW”

¼ Chinese cabbage (wombok)

1 small carrot

2 red spring onions

½ telegraph cucumber

¼ cup sprouted mung beans or bean shoots

¼ red capsicum

1 cup Vietnamese mint leaves

2 tablespoons ground roasted peanuts

DRESSING

1 teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon brown sugar

1 teaspoon fish sauce

Juice of ½ lime

1 teaspoon grated garlic

1 teaspoon grated root ginger

1 tablespoon peanut oil

METHOD

Make the dressing by combining all the ingredients in a small bowl. Allow to rest while you make the salad. Wash and finely shred the cabbage. Put in a large bowl.  Cut the carrots, spring onions, cucumber and red capsicum into fine julienne and add to the bowl. Pick the mint leaves from the stems, wash and roughly chop. Add to the bowl along with the bean sprouts. Toss all the vegetables together. Add the dressing and the peanuts and toss again. Serve immediately

About ladyredspecs

I live in sunny Brisbane, Australia. My love of good food drives me as a cook, a reader, a traveller, an artist and but mostly as an eater. I cooked professionally for many years but have no formal training. Simply guided by a love of eating good food, respect for ingredients and an abhorrence of artificial additives, I cook instinctively applying the technical know how acquired by experience. I hope you enjoy what I share Sandra AKA ladyredspecs

View all posts by ladyredspecs →

6 comments on “CRISP & CRUNCHY VIETNAMESE STYLE SALAD”

1. marymtf

   January 24, 2014

   

   Mouth watering. A nice change from a squeeze of orange for dressing or mayonnaise.

   LikeLike

   Reply
   • ladyredspecs

     January 25, 2014

     

     Thank you Mary, it’s good to be home and getting back to normal, whatever that is!!

     LikeLike

     Reply
     • marymtf

       January 25, 2014

       

       My granddaughters are leaving for interstate this weekend. Not sure if that’s getting back to normal for me, but it certainly frees up some time.

       LikeLike

2. Pingback: FOOD INTOLERANCE FRIENDLY VIETNAMESE RICE PAPER ROLLS « Please Pass the Recipe

3. Leah

   April 19, 2012

   

   amazing! love the photo too….looks like you’re really getting into it 🙂

   LikeLike

   Reply
   • Sandra

     April 19, 2012

     

     Yep, being more mindful of contrasts, though the reality is just getting my design eye into gear. Such fun ! :-). Xx

     LikeLike

     Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Enter your comment here...

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Email (required) (Address never made public)

Name (required)

Website

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

Notify me of new comments via email.

Notify me of new posts via email.

Δ

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.