Chinese pasta salad
6 servings
Ingredients
Quantity | Ingredient | |
---|---|---|
1½ | cup | Snow peas |
250 | grams | Rice vermicelli |
1 | x | Red pepper sliced thin |
½ | each | English cucumber sliced thin |
6 | ounces | Cooked shrimp |
130 | grams | Crabmeat |
1 | tablespoon | Fine chopped fresh ginger |
1 | each | Chopped garlic clove |
2 | tablespoons | Sesame oil |
½ | teaspoon | Black pepper |
1½ | teaspoon | Salt |
2 | tablespoons | Lemon juice |
3 | teaspoons | Vegetable oil |
1 | teaspoon | Red wine vinegar |
Directions
Wash and trim snwo peas. Place them in a bowl and pour in enough boiling water to cover them. Let stand 10 minutes; drain and set aside. Cook the noodles in plenty of boiling water for 3 to 4 minutes. Drain in colander, rinse with cold water and set aside. In large bowl, combine noodles, snow peas, red pepper, cucumber, shrimp and crabmeat. In a small bowl, combine ginger, garlic, sesame oil, pepper, salt, vegetable oil, lemon juice and vinegar. Pour this dressing over the other ingredients and mix thoroughly. Chill before serving.