3 people · Easy · 20 min · ₭ Cheap

Menu today at the office with coworkers is a Cucumber and Noodle salad. A popular dish for a break :)

Ingredients

• 2 rice noodle (sen khao pun), If dry rice noodle, you have to cook it first as the instruction on the package
• 1 cucumber, chopped and sliced
• 0.2 carrot, chopped and sliced
• 3 cherry tomatoes
• 2 branches of garlic leaves, cut about 2 cm long
• 1 hog plum (mak kok)
• 10 red chili, more or less
• 1 clove of garlic
• ½ teaspoon of shrimp paste (kapi)
• 1 tablespoon of sugar
• 1 tablespoon of MSG, more or less
• 1 tablespoon of lime juice
• 1.5 tablespoons of Lao fermented fish sauce (padek)
• ½ tablespoon of concentrate cooking tamarind
• 1 tablespoon of roasted peanuts

Preparation

Step 1. Using a mortar and pestle, pound the chili with garlic, shrimp paste, MSG and sugar.

Step 2. Add lemon juice, fermented fish sauce (padek), tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots, green garlic leaves and pound gently.

Step 3. Then add noodles and mix together. Taste rectify the flavour if needed, then serve with fresh salad. Zap!