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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Asian >> Southeast Asian >> Vietnamese

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. To prepare the dressing, combine the fish sauce, lime juice, 2 tablespoons of the brown sugar, 6 tablespoons of the water, the garlic and the chile. Whisk well. Taste: if it's too pungent, add more water, 1 tablespoon at a time. If you'd like more sweetness, add more brown sugar, 1/2 tablespoon at a time. Remember that you're going to be putting this dressing on unsalted vegetables and noodles: you want the dressing to have a lot of flavor, but it shouldn't knock you over. Pour into a serving bowl. (Covered and chilled, the dressing will keep for 3 days to a week.). | 2. Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add the rice noodles, and cook for 4 to 5 minutes, until tender but not mushy. Immediately drain the noodles into a colander, and rinse them well with cold water. Lay out a clean kitchen towel on the countertop, shake the colander to drain away excess water and then spread the cooked noodles on the towel to drain further. | 3. Divide the noodles between two or three good-sized bowls, depending on the number of diners, and top with the vegetables, herbs and meat. Scatter the peanuts on top. Allow each person to spoon on dressing to taste. Toss well, and eat. (Alternatively, you can present this salad family-style: Toss the vegetables, herbs and noodles in a mixing bowl and then mound them on a serving platter. Arrange the meat over the noodles, and top with peanuts. Each diner can scoop their own portion from the platter and dress it as they see fit.). | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
fish sauce	3	tablespoons		18.9	1.9656	2.7324	0.0054
lime juice	3	tablespoons	squeezed	11.3438	3.8206	0.1906	0.0318
brown sugar	2 -3			0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
water	6 -8	tablespoons		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
garlic clove	1		minced	-	-	-	-
thai chile jalapeno pepper	1		minced	-	-	-	-
rice noodle	8	ounces		829.92	182.8104	13.565999999999999	1.2768
napa cabbage leaf	3 -4		sliced	-	-	-	-
carrot	1		shredded cut	25.01	5.8438	0.5673	0.1464
cucumber	1/2		halved seeded sliced	7.8	1.8876	0.33799999999999997	0.0572
herb	1	handful	chopped cilantro	-	-	-	-
pork	8	ounces	cooked cut chopped cut chopped	852.768	0.0	31.5479	79.5388
peanut	1/2		salted chopped	413.91	11.7749	18.834	35.9452

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.