Description
Craving a healthy Thai noodle salad dish that you feel good after eating it, but is also an easy weeknight, flavorful dinner? Yum Woon Sen is it!
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 bundles Thai Bean Thread Glass Noodles
- 2 servings shrimp
- 1 lb ground turkey
- 3 roma tomatoes, cut into chunks
- 1 white onion
- Veggies of choice, 2 cups
- 1 c. fresh roughly chopped cilantro
- 1 c. fresh mint
Yum Woon Sen Dressing
- 1–2 tbsp. fish sauce
- 2–8 Thai chilies, smashed and sliced thin (depending on spice preference)
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 tsp. sugar
- 3 limes, juiced
- 1/2 c. ground peanuts
Instructions
- Start boiling the water for your noodles.
- Add the garlic, cilantro stems, and Thai chilies to a mortar and pestle, or food processor, and pound it into a rough paste.
- Add sugar, and pound until the sugar is dissolved. Add fish sauce and lime juice, and mix briefly. When you taste it, you want lime flavor to be in the lead, followed by a salty flavor, and the sugar is just used to balance out the flavors.
- Soak the glass noodles for about 10 minutes in warm water.
- Boil about six cups of water or so and add pre-soaked glass noodles.
- Let the glass noodles cook for about 2-3 minutes, or until noodles are cooked, but not mushy.
- Don’t drain the glass noodles, instead take out the noodles using tongs, and place them in a mixing bowl.
- Keep the hot water you just used for the noodles at a gentle boil, so you can use it to cook the shrimp.
- Add your shrimp, and blanch them for about 30 seconds until cooked through.
- Take them out with tongs, and add to the bowl where you have your veggies.
- Keep the hot water going in the pot still, but drain out some until you have a few inches left so you can use it to cook the ground turkey.
- Add the ground turkey, and break it up quickly so you don’t have big clumps.
- Add 1 tbsp or so of fish sauce to season the meat some.
- Once cooked through, add it to the bowl where you have your shrimp and veggies. Add 1 tablespoon of the cooking liquid to the bowl as well.
- Add the glass noodles to the bowl, and put the dressing directly on top of the noodles to help them break up.
- Mix up everything, and then add the cilantro leaves, mint and peanuts. Enjoy!
Notes
You can use any veggies or herbs you have on hand that you think will go well together! Feel free to add more or less of any veggie, and really customize this to your liking!
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Category: Salad
- Method: Stir-Fry
- Cuisine: Thai
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