Vietnamese Rice Noodle Salad – Lightningbug.farm

Ingredients

• 3 tablespoons fish sauce
• 3 tablespoons freshly squeezed lime juice
• 2 tablespoons light brown sugar, plus more to taste
• 6 tablespoons water, plus more to taste
• 1 medium clove garlic, minced
• 1 fresh Thai (also sold as “bird’s eye”) chile, minced
• 8 ounces thin rice noodles (roughly the width of linguine)
• 4 napa cabbage leaves, thinly sliced crosswise
• 1 medium carrot, shredded or cut into matchsticks
• 1/2 cucumber, halved, seeded, and thinly sliced
• 1 handful chopped fresh herbs, preferably a combination of basil, cilantro, and mint
• 8 ounces cooked meat or shrimp, cut or torn into bite-sized pieces
• 1/2 cup salted peanuts, coarsely chopped