BBC Food - Recipes - Spicy chicken thighs with cucumber and cashew salad

Ingredients

• 3 tbsp fish sauce
• freshly ground black pepper , to taste
• 3 garlic cloves, peeled, crushed
• 2 large red chillies , finely chopped
• 2 tsp sugar
• 8 chicken thighs, bone and skin removed
• 2 tbsp vegetable oil
• 3 tbsp lime juice
• 3 tbsp caster sugar
• 200g/7oz vermicelli rice noodles
• 2 cucumbers , halved and thinly sliced
• small handful fresh mint leaves
• 4 spring onions , sliced finely
• 2 tbsp cashews , crushed