Description
This Vietnamese Spring Roll Salad is everything you love about spring rolls…chopped up into a fresh and zesty pasta salad. Feel free to make yours with shrimp, chicken, pork or tofu…or keep it simple with just veggies!
Ingredients
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Salad Ingredients:
- 8 ounces thin rice noodles
- 1 teaspoon toasted sesame oil
- 8 ounces cooked shrimp, diced*
- 1 English cucumber, julienned or diced
- 1 cup shredded carrots**
- 2/3 cup loosely-packed chopped fresh bean sprouts
- 2/3 cup loosely-packed chopped fresh cilantro
- 2/3 cup loosely-packed chopped fresh mint
- 1/3 cup chopped peanuts
- half of a small green cabbage, cored and chopped**
- 1 batch Nuoc Cham Sauce (see below)
Nuoc Cham Sauce Ingredients:
- 1/4 cup lime juice
- 3 tablespoons rice vinegar
- 2 tablespoons fish sauce
- 2 tablespoons maple syrup
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 fresh Thai chili, thinly sliced (or 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes)
Instructions
- To Make The Rice Noodles: Cook rice noodles according to package instructions. Once they are cooked, rinse them with cold water under a strainer until completely chilled. Then transfer to a large mixing bowl, drizzle with sesame oil, and toss until the noodles are evenly coated with the oil.
- To Make The Sauce: Whisk all ingredients together until evenly combined.
- To Bring Everything Together: Add the remaining ingredients (shrimp, cucumber, carrots, bean sprouts, cilantro, mint, peanuts, cabbage, and sauce) to the noodles, and toss until evenly combined. Taste, and season with salt and pepper as needed.
- Serve immediately (with extra lime wedges for squeezing!), or refrigerate for up to 3 days.
Notes
*Feel free to substitute cooked chicken, pork, or tofu, if you prefer. Or you can just nix adding an extra protein entirely.
**To save a step, you can sub in 3 cups cole slaw mix for the cabbage and carrots. Or if you’re not a big fan of cabbage, you can also sub in butter lettuce (or any mild green) in place of the cabbage.
I love spring rolls, but i have never had them as a salad, sounds delicious and slightly healthier, looking forward to try it out!
Yes sounds great, make myself a tall glass of Thai iced tea….all set.
Yummyyyyyy. It looks very delicious! A must to share it on my Pinterest Board “Healthy Meets Tasty” xoxo
Please breakdown aall nutrition facts so us Weight Watchers can do the math Thanks,
This is sooooo good! Thank you for the recipe!
I used rotisserie chicken instead of the shrimp, a broccoli slaw mix from the store, and the peanut sauce. Definitely going to be making this regularly. It’s so refreshing after all the heavier meals of winter. The fresh mint and lime go so well together.
I totally know what you mean with a treasure hunt :) When we lived there we ware going once a week to the super market in shopping mall Diagonal Mar to buy basics(well basics for us) but we had a car there…
for organic grocery I recommend https://www.veritas.es/ – they have tienda online
But if you have time (which I often haven’t ) discovering small ethnic shops is super fun! and with some patience you can fins real gems like Mini Mix – small Russian convenient store near Barceloneta metro station. It looks like nothing from the outside but they have a great bread from German bakery which is a real deal :) + some typical products from Eastern Europe.
cheers!
I made this for dinner, it was a big hit. I substituted roman lettuce for the bean sprouts and it was perfect, it was good crunch.
OMG. Loved it with the peanut thai dressing! Rolled a couple as spring rolls later to take to work the next day! Amazing and perfect during Lent! Homerun Ali. Making it for my son next weekend!!
This is SO GOOD. I’ve been texting friends about it for over 24 hours. I’ve never been so excited about a salad!!
This sounds delicious! I am writing my shopping list so I can make this tonight. I have to finish up some school work and don’t have a lot of time to spend in the kitchen, but my family and I need to eat. This recipe could not at the most perfect time. Quick, nutritious and inexpensive. Thanks for sharing ?
This was so fun to make and so tasty! It did take quite a while to throw together, but was well worth it. Thank you for the recipe. I will definitely be making it again!
Just made this for dinner. So delicious! Light and filling at the same time. Thank you for the recipe!
Please give me your definition of prep time! There is no way you can have a 25. Minute prep time. One of the few things that I don’t like about your recipes. I made the salad tonight and it was fantastic…Terry Wynter
Spring roll salad sounds delicious. I will be making some soon. Thank you.
This was fabulous!!! I brought it to a pot luck today and everyone loved it. I omitted the bean sprouts and made it with the Nuoc Cham Sauce. The only thing I will do next time is break up the rice noddles to make it easier to eat. But 5 Star recipe for sure!!
Simple and delicious. Thanks for posting. I’m always trying to find easy ways to recreate some of the flavors I tasted while cycling Vietnam and this reminds me of some of them.
I just made this for dinner this evening to go along with Closet Cooking’s Vietnamese Caramel pork and some steamed jasmine rice. Let me just say-I just finished breakfast, and I CANNOT wait to eat this tonight! I had to make a couple substitutions due to what I had on hand, but I feel I definitely captured the flavor of your recipe.
5/5 – I’ll definitely be making this again. 😊
*Subbed Sambal chili sauce for red pepper flakes
*Subbed Hoisin sauce for maple syrup
The salad was delicious, filling and light. I also want to know how you got the 25minute prep time. It took me that long to wash the dishes from this. I say more like an hour if you do all from scratch. I had to clean all my shrimp, dice or shred, juice limes etc. If you use a lot of pre-prepped food maybe 25 min. Worth the time because I love to cook and very delicious. Just allow for more prep time
My family enjoy this over Memorial holiday! Will be making again and again and again
Does it taste the same with Purple Cabbage? I have some leftover that I need to use and was wondering if it would work for this recipe. Thank you!
Excellent salad in both flavor and texture!
As usual- another great recipe. Super flexible too- I had to sun a bunch and it was still excellent. IMHO mint not needed.
Yummy! And so versatile! I made a vegetarian version (no shrimp) as a side dish to accompany Thai peanut chicken, but adding the shrimp would be delicious! You could also toss in chunked grilled chicken or tofu. This is definitely joining my regular rotation.
Hey, this was great! I made the peanut butter dressing (and YUM!) and my husband had two bowls. Pretty great for a salad night. He wants to try it with chicken next—soon! Thanks for a fun new recipe!
The sauce was the best ever. I think the maple syrup balanced perfectly with the salty fish sauce. Loved this
This is a KEEPER!!! Yummmmy in our tummies! I had frozen cooked shrimp in the freezer so when I came across this recipe on pinterest, I knew I had try it. My only change was using a jalapeno in place of the Thai red chili as we live in teh sticks and our grocery store doesn’t carry that kind of a chili. Use brown rice noodles since I had those on hand. Next time, I’ll add in some sliced radishes! Oh, and I opted for the slaw mix since my neighbor kindly gifted me a bag :)