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!
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Vietnamese Spring Roll Salad
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
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.
Did you make this?Let me know how it turned out in the comments below!
As usual- another great recipe. Super flexible too- I had to sun a bunch and it was still excellent. IMHO mint not needed.
Excellent salad in both flavor and texture!
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!
My family enjoy this over Memorial holiday! Will be making again and again and again
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
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
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!!
Spring roll salad sounds delicious. I will be making some soon. Thank you.
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
Just made this for dinner. So delicious! Light and filling at the same time. Thank you for the recipe!