Grilled Pork and Rice Noodle Salad

Ingredients

• 0.5 pound julienne-cut carrot 
• 2 teaspoons chile paste with garlic
• 0.8 pound julienne-cut cucumber 
• 0.3 cup dry-roasted peanuts chopped
• 3 tablespoons fish sauce 
• 0.5 cup basil fresh chopped
• 1 cup bean sprouts fresh
• 0.5 cup mint leaves fresh chopped
• 1  garlic clove minced
• 0.3 cup juice of lime fresh
• 2 cups salad greens mixed
• 4  hoisin-marinated pork chops thinly sliced
• 0.5 pound rice sticks uncooked (rice-flour noodles)
• 0.3 cup sugar 
• 0.7 cup water boiling

Equipment

• bowl

Directions

1. Combine boiling water and sugar, stirring until sugar dissolves.
2. Add juice, fish sauce, chile paste, and garlic. Cool.
3. Prepare noodles according to package directions; drain.
4. Combine noodles, greens, and next 6 ingredients (greens through pork chops) in a large bowl.
5. Add juice mixture; toss well.
6. Sprinkle with peanuts.
7. (Totals include Hoisin-Marinated Pork Chops)