Vietnamese Chicken Noodle Bowl

• 5 boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut in 1" chunks
• 2 cups shredded napa cabbage
• 1 carrot, julienned
• 1 cucumber, julienned
• 1 cup cilantro, washed and chopped roughly
• 2 cups bean sprouts
• 5 green onions, diced
• 1 cup salted peanuts, chopped
• 1 lb cooked rice vermicelli noodles OR I used whole wheat spaghetti noodles (boil while cooking chicken
• Sauce for Chicken
• 1/2 cup peanut butter (I used natural)
• 1 T sugar (I used xylitol)
• 1 tsp asian garlic chili sauce
• 1 T fish sauce
• 1 T rice wine vinegar
• 1/3 cup water
• 1 clove garlic
• 1 tsp fresh grated ginger
• 1/4 cup chopped peanuts(from above ingredients)
• 1 tsp sesame oil

1. Heat a large saute pan until very hot. Put about 2 T of sesame oil in the pan and toss in chopped chicken and cook until cooked through. Mix all above ingredients well in a bowl except peanuts. Pour over cooked chicken while it is still over the heat. Stir over heat for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and toss in peanuts. Mix well. Set aside.
2. Dressing to pour over top
3. 1/2 cup rice wine vinegar
4. 2 T sugar (I used xylitol)
5. 1/3 cup fish sauce
6. 1 tsp chopped cilantro
7. 2 cloves grated garlic
8. 1 tsp freshly grated ginger
9. 1/2 T asian garlic chili sauce
10. 1/3 cup water
11. Stir all ingredients together until sugar is dissolved.
12. Assembly
13. In a large bowl place 1/2 cup shredded cabbage. Then place 1 cup noodles off to one side of the bowl. On the other side of the bowl put 2/3 cup chicken. Then on the noodles place 1/8 cup of each cilantro, bean sprouts, carrots, and cucumber in a row next to each other. Pour 1/4 cup of dressing over the bowl. Then sprinkle 1/8 cup of peanuts over the whole bowl.

chicken breasts, cabbage, carrot, cucumber, cilantro, bean sprouts, green onions, peanuts, vermicelli noodles, chicken, peanut butter, t, chili sauce, fish sauce, rice wine vinegar, water, clove garlic, ginger, sesame oil

Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/vietnamese-chicken-noodle-bowl-50128560 (may not work)