BBC Food - Recipes - Vietnamese-style crayfish and noodle salad

Ingredients

• 200g/7oz extra-fine dried rice noodles
• ½ cucumber , halved lengthways
• 150g/5½oz cooked and peeled crayfish tails
• 1 red pepper , deseeded and thinly sliced
• 150g/5½oz beansprouts
• 6 spring onions , thinly sliced on the diagonal
• 1 small carrot , cut into fine matchsticks
• ½–1 fresh red chilli , deseeded and finely chopped
• 1 small bunch fresh coriander , chopped
• 1 small bunch fresh mint , chopped
• 3cm/1¼in piece fresh root ginger , peeled and finely grated
• 1 garlic clove, crushed
• 30g/1oz salted peanuts , chopped, to serve (optional)
• salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 3 tbsp Thai fish sauce
• 3 tbsp lime juice (1–2 limes)
• 3 tbsp light muscovado sugar
• 1 tbsp sesame oil