Maybe you are staying in this Valentines Day? Maybe you don’t even care about Valentine’s Day at all?! Just in case you are having a Friday night in (with or without a Valentine- no judgement!!) and want to serve up an easy, no-fuss, beautiful dish that will make everyone happy (or just yourself) here you go!!!
These noodles are delicious, very fresh in flavor and texture and I must admit, is somewhat addicting! I feel like I could have eaten tons of this if my family had not beaten me to it!
When I made this, everyone in my family dished themselves up big bowls of noodles and salad and grabbed a pair of chopsticks and happily dug in. Noone really came up for air for a while- they were too busy eating noodles.
Personally, this feels like an awesome Valentines Day dinner
- Dressing:
- 2 cloves garlic
- 2 tablespoons cashew butter
- 2 tablespoons sambal
- 2 tablespoons agave
- ¼ cup rice vinegar
- ¼ cup sesame oil
- 2 tablespoons tamari
- Noodles:
- 10 ounces rice stick noodles
- Salad:
- 4 cups mixed greens
- 2 cups finely shredded red cabbage
- 1 red pepper, thinly sliced
- ½ red onion, thinly sliced
- ½ cup cooked shelled peas
- 4 radishes, thinly sliced
- 1 bunch fresh cilantro
- 1 cup fresh mint leaves
- 1 cup fresh basil leaves
- ¼ cup toasted, salted chopped cashews
- Kosher salt
- Bring a large pot of water to a boil. While the water is coming to a boil, make the dressing.
- For the dressing, combine all of the ingredients in the jar of a blender. Puree on high until it is smooth and set aside.
- Add the rice noodles to the boiling water and turn the heat off. Stir the rice noodles in and let them sit in the boiling water for a few minutes until cooked through or according to the manufacturer's directions. When the rice noodles are cooked, drain them and rinse with cold water to stop the cooking and cool them down. Toss the cool noodles with the dressing and toss with the cabbage, peppers, onions, peas, radishes, fresh herbs and the cashews. Season to taste with kosher salt and serve the noodles on a bed of mixed greens.
Hi Heather
I just wanted to let you know how delicious your Butter lettuce salad with pickled red onion and mint vinaigrette is. We hosted a dinner party for 40 recently. We served several courses. I used your recipe for the salad course and it was a big hit. So many requested the recipe. I refer people to your site all the time. My husband and daughter can not eat wheat, dairy or eggs so it’s so exciting to look through your recipes and know I can make all of them without substitutions. I also have your recipe book. We also love your meatball recipe. I make them often. Thanks again for posting such a delicious variety of recipes!
Kyla, thank you so much! It’s notes like this that remind me that I am really being able to help people, and it makes me want to keep going!! Very much appreciated for sharing 🙂
wow, a very unique set of ingredients, thank you, love them in a salad, very diffiernt from my typical salad recipes, so much appreciated!
Discovered you a few months ago. So happy! It’s really hard to find books that cover ALL my allergies (7 out of 8 with some random extras thrown in). Were in the middle of home improvement, so I haven’t cooked yet, but I’m enjoying the read. Thanks for all your hard work!
Thank you Jane! So happy that I can hopefully help!