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Dinner · 20 min · 2 bowls

Rice noodle salad

Cold noodles, nuoc cham, crunch. Uses the herbs before they blacken.

The sheet · 2 bowls · 20 min

easy

Why tonight. Cold noodles, nuoc cham, crunch. Uses the herbs before they blacken.

What it needs

Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.

  • rice noodles
  • carrot
  • lettuce
  • fish sauce
  • lime

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: peanuts, mint.

Method

  1. Rinse the noodles cold the moment they are done, so they stop cooking and shed the starch that would glue them.
  2. Dressing made cold: sugar dissolved in lime first, then fish sauce, then water.
  3. Dress it right before eating. Left sitting, the noodles drink everything and the bowl goes dry.
  4. Peanuts and herbs at the last second so they stay crisp and green.

An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.

Cook or pour it, then edit the shelf if you emptied a bottle or used the last of something.

Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

rice noodles
They keep cooking in whatever they sit in, so they come out of the water early and go into the sauce underdone.
carrot
Sweetness that survives long cooking, which is why it sits under so many braises.
lettuce
Structure and water, and it is worth being fussy about.
fish sauce
Salt and deep savoriness, and it smells far stronger than it tastes once it is in something.
lime
Sharper and more floral than lemon, and it fades faster — juice it the same hour you use it.

Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.

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