Thai Glass Noodle Salad

Ingredients per 2 portions:

100 g glass noodles, dried
250 g minced pork
oil
3 tbsp water or stock
fresh prawns, peeled and deveined, optional
5 stalk(s) Chinese celery, chopped
5  spring onions, chopped
5  Thai onions, sliced
5 sprig(s) cilantro, chopped
2 clove(s) garlic, minced
1 piece(s) ginger, about 5 cm, grated
1  red chilli, chopped (or more)
1 tbsp Thai chilli paste (nam prik pao)
6 tbsp lime juice
4 tbsp fish sauce
2 tbsp peanuts, roasted, chopped
lettuce leaves, to garnish

Method:

Put glass noodles into a bowl and cover with boiling water; let them soak
for 10 minutes and drain. Cut with a pair of scissors into pieces of about
5 cm.

Heat some oil in a pan and fry minced pork for about 6 minutes, stirring.
Add the water or stock (and prawns, if you like) and cook for some more
minutes. Let it cool a little bit and add to the glass noodles.

Mix garlic, ginger, chilli, fish sauce, lime juice and chilli paste and add
to the glass noodles.

Add sliced onions, celery, spring onions and cilantro too and mix well.

Arrange lettuce leaves on a plate and add the glass noodle salad. Sprinkle
with chopped peanuts and serve.

Preparation time.....: 30 min
Cooking / Baking time: 10 min
Resting time.........: 10 min

--- happy cooking !!!