John Torode served up a tasty Vietnamese summer feast with prawns, glass noodles and salad on This Morning.
The ingredients for the salad are: Handful fresh mint, Handful Thai basil, Handful coriander leaves (use the stems for the dressing), 1 cucumber, shredded, 2 handfuls beansprouts, 1 handful Chinese cabbage or pak choi, shredded, 2 spring onions shredded on the bias and 8 large lettuce cups to serve (Cos).
For the dressing: Juice of 3 limes, 1 clove garlic, finely chopped, 2 Thai shallots, finely chopped (or regular shallots), 2 long red chillies, finely chopped, 40g palm sugar, 40ml fish sauce, 3 coriander root or 6 coriander stalks, 300g glass noodles soaked in warm water for 20 minutes and drained (Mung bean Rice Vermicelli), 16 large prawns, shells removed (keep the shells), 100ml veg oil, 2 Thai shallots, finely sliced (or regular shallots), 1 clove garlic, finely sliced and 2 teaspoons of toasted sesame seeds.
See recipes by John in his book titled: My Kind of Food: Recipes I Love to Cook at Home available from Amazon now.