Vietnamese vermicelli salad

What you need (for 2 persons)

✦ 120 grams of brown rice vermicelli
✦ 1 cucumber, halved, cut into thin slices
✦ 2 carrots, grated
✦ 100 grams mixed lettuce leaves
✦ 1 cup of fresh mint
✦ 1 bowl of fresh coriander
✦ 1 cup of bean sprouts (100 grams)
✦ 2 tablespoons peanuts, bruised with the bottom of a glass
✦ 2 tablespoons fish sauce or soy sauce
✦ 2 tablespoons of lime or lemon juice
✦ 1 small tablespoon of honey
✦ 1 garlic clove, bruised
✦ 1/2 chili pepper, halved lengthwise

How you make it 

First make the dressing: dissolve the honey in 2 tablespoons of almost boiling water, mix with the fish sauce, lime juice, garlic clove and half the chili pepper. Set aside. Cook the vermicelli according to the packaging instructions, rinse with cold water (to prevent sticking) and divide this in 2 large bowls (from which you will eat). Divide the lettuce, bean sprouts, cucumber, grated carrots and peanuts over the two trays. Remove the leaves from the coriander and mint branches, chop them roughly with a knife and spread them over the two bowls. Remove the garlic clove and chilli pepper from the sauce and spread over the bowls.