Thai Bean Thread Noodle Salad (Yam Woon Sen)

If you love fish sauce and slurping noodles, then this recipe is for you.  I hope you will like it!

Thai Bean Thread Noodle Salad (Yam Woon Sen)

1 cup dried shrimps (soak in warm water)

1/2 cup match stick carrots

1/4 cup cilantro

1 cup celery

1/2 lime

3 garlic

1 small shallot

1/2 lb shrimps

1/2 lb beef

1/4 cup green onion

3 tbsp roasted peanuts

2 tbsp fried shallots

3 bags of 1.3 oz/37.5g bean thread noodles

Salt and pepper

Prepping food for salad mixing:

Step 1: Blanch celery for 3 min. then rinse with cold water

Step 2: Soak 3 bean threads in hot (not boiling) water for 5 min. then rinse in cold water

Step 3: Cook ground beef with 1 minced garlic, 1/4 tsp black pepper, 1/2 tsp salt, then add 1/2 lb shrimps, 

Sauce Prep: This sauce portion is for 3 bags of 1.3 oz noodles

2 garlics

1/2 portion of the small shallot

3 tbsp fish sauce

1/2 a lime or 2 tbsp lime

2 tsp sugar

1-2 chili peppers (depends on your spicy level)

Combine and mix the ingredients. 

Salad Mixing:

Add celery, noodles, ground beef, the left over shallots, soaked dried shrimps, carrots, cilantro, shrimps, green onion, roasted peanuts, and the sauce.
Enjoy your Thai salad!!