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Vietnamese 'lasagna'

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Servings: 4
Author: Recipe from Real Living Magazine January/February 2012

Ingredients

  • 125 g 4.5oz vermicelli noodles
  • 2 tablespoon peanut or vegetable oil
  • 3 garlic cloves minced
  • 1 tablespoon freshly grated ginger I used crushed ginger from a jar
  • ½ wombok Chinese cabbage, shredded (I used bok choy)
  • 2 carrots peeled and finely sliced into matchsticks or grated
  • 6 spring onions sliced
  • 3 tablespoon light soy sauce
  • ½ bunch mint leaves
  • ½ cup roasted peanuts chopped
  • ½ BBQ chicken shredded (I cooked 1 large chicken breast fillet in the oven and then shredded it)
  • 4 rice paper spring roll wrappers
  • ½ cup sweet chili sauce

Instructions

  • Place the noodles in a deep bowl and cover them with boiling water. Leave them to sit for 5 minutes, or until they are soft and then drain them and run them under cold water to cool them. Set the noodles aside.
  • Heat the oil in a wok and then add the garlic and ginger and cook them until fragrant (about a minute).
  • Add the carrot, wombok and most of the spring onions to the wok and cook, stirring until the vegetables have just softened (about 5 minutes).
  • Pour in the soy sauce, half the sweet chili and stir through the chicken then continue to cook for 2 minutes.
  • Turn off the heat and stir in the mint leaves then sit the mixture aside to cool a little.
  • Soak the rice paper sheets individually in boiling water until they soften then remove them to a tea towel. I use a plate of water to make mine.
  • Cut each sheet in half.
  • Starting with the chicken mixture, place a blob of it onto a serving platter. Top it with some noodles and one sheet of rice paper. Repeat until everything is used up finishing with rice paper.
  • Drizzle the remaining sweet chili sauce and spring onion, a few peanuts and some mint leaves over the top of the 'lasagna.'
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