Prawn Salad with Asian Dressing - Khin's Kitchen Salad Recipes (2024)

Easy Asian prawn salad recipe made with king prawns, glass noodles, crisp vegetables, and chilli lime dressing. One of the best prawn salad ideas, that you can make at home in 15 minutes!

This salad recipe can be made with simple everyday ingredients that you can easily buy at the supermarkets. It takes only a few minutes to prepare and is perfect for busy days! This Asian dressing sauce is adapted from Vietnamese and Thai prawn salad recipes and is perfectly balanced, with sweet, sour, spicy, and salty flavour.

If you are bored of prawn mango avocado salad or prawn co*cktail salad it's time to try out this refreshing Asian-style shrimp salad! What I love about this dish is, it is so versatile! You can customize the salad vegetables, noodles, and balance out the sauce ingredients!

Ingredients we need

Prawns - I use cooked and peeled king prawns for this recipe which is very convenient and saves time when you have a little time to peel and deveined fresh prawns. You can add any cooked king prawns, tiger prawns, or small prawns.

Can I use fresh prawns? Yes, you can. If you want to try with fresh prawns, peel and devein the prawns and blanch in hot boiling water for 1-2 minutes depending on the size of prawns you cook. Remove from water, pat dry with a paper towel, and is ready to add to your salad.

Salad vegetables - In this recipe, I add cherry tomatoes, onions, chili pepper, coriander, and mint leaves. Salad tomatoes, shredded cucumber, carrots, bean sprouts, and shredded cabbage go well too. Feel free to add your favourite salad vegetables.

Noodles - You can add glass noodles ( cellophane/ mung bean/ sweet potato noodles ) or thin rice noodles ( vermicelli noodles ).

Prawn salad dressing - Most Asian salad dressing sauces are very similar in general. Thai and Vietnamese prawn salad contains lime juice, vinegar, sugar, chopped garlic, lemongrass, and fresh chilies.

This is an oil-free dressing that doesn't contain any olive oil or sesame oil. Contain 4 basic ingredients, lime juice, sugar, fish sauce, and garlic. Add fresh finger chilli or birdeye chilli for a kick of spice. You can omit it if you don't like it spicy or reduce the amount. Feel free to swap sugar with honey, brown sugar, or palm sugar.

Fish Sauce Substitute - Fish sauce has a salty, sweet, umami taste and is ideal for this recipe. Highly recommend adding fish sauce if you do not have any shellfish or seafood allergy. If you want to avoid it, substitute it with soy sauce or salt, according to your taste.

Topping and Garnish - For a toasty flavour, sprinkle some toasted chopped peanuts and crispy fried onions.

Simple Steps To Make Prawn Salad

1. First, soak the glass noodles with hot water for 6-8 minutes. Once it becomes soft and transparent, drain the water out.

2. Combine the sauce ingredients in a bowl and mix it well until sugar is dissolved.

3. Next, add the glass noodles, onion and cherry tomatoes in.

4. Follow with the cooked prawns.

5. Add coriander, mint leaves and pour the salad dressing and toss well to combine everything evenly.

6. Transfer to a serving plate and garnish with toasted peanuts and crispy fried onions.

Cooking Tips

• You don't need to add the same ingredients, you can be creative by adding shredded chicken, grilled chicken, beef, tofu or any of your choice of protein. Boiled, blanched, or grilled.
• Cut the noodles into short strands (about 3-4 inches) with scissors, so it's easy to toss in the salad and easy to serve.
• It's important not to overcook the glass noodles. Depending on the brands and different types of noodles, cooking time and method can be slightly different. You can either soak in hot boiling water for 6-8 minutes, then drain the water out. Or you can boil in boiling water in 1-2 minutes then rinse with cold water to prevent it from overcooked.
• Make extra dressing sauce, keep it in an air-tight jar and store in fridge for later use. It usually lasts for a couple of days in fridge.
• You don't really get the fishy smell from fish sauce beacauce the lime juice, garlic and chilli, perfecly balanced the flavour. The sauce taste and smell amazing!

Frequently asked questions

What to serve with prawn salad?

Serve with plain jasmine rice, basmati rice, egg fried rice or noodles. You can also pair it with Thai Spring rolls, Chicken Sweet Corn Soup, Duck Chow Mein or Beef Lo Mein and make it a wholesome dinner.

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