Asian-Style Noodle Salad with Trout, Greens and Crunchy Seed Mix

Asian-Style Noodle Salad with Trout, Greens and Crunchy Seed Mix

This next recipe has some of my favourite dressing ingredients! I love the Thai flavour combination of using mint, ginger, sesame, lime and chilli together. Fresh, zingy and with a good kick. My heaven! This makes a very tasty dinner or lunch. It can be served warm! The seed mix can be used on top of any salad for crunch and flavour but, it’s also a good way to add a bit more fibre into your diet. I highly recommend having a stock in a jar ready to go.

Serves 1

Ingredients:

1 trout fillet, take out of the fridge 15mins before cooking (2 tbsp olive oil for cooking)

80g cooked noodles

1 baby gem lettuce

handful baby spinach

2 baby cucumbers

handful fresh mint leaves

handful fresh coriander leaves

1 spring onion

Seed mix:

50g mix sunflower, pumpkin, sesame seeds

1 tbsp sunflower / olive oil

1 tbsp tamari soya sauce

2 pinches of cayenne pepper

Ginger soy dressing:

3 tbsp toasted sesame oil

1 tsp grated fresh ginger

3 tbsp rice wine vinegar

1 tsp maple syrup

zest + juice of 1 lime

2 tbsp tamari soya sauce

A good pinch of cayenne pepper

Preheat the oven to 190C degrees. Add the seed ingredients to a baking tray + mix together. Place into the oven for 3mins. Mix together + roast for 1 more min or until lightly golden.

While they roast, mix all of the dressing ingredients together into a bowl + taste to check the seasoning. Add in more cayenne or ginger if needed.

Set a frying pan to a medium to high heat + add 1 tbsp olive oil. Dab trout fillet with paper towel, season in salt, pepper + olive oil. Place into the pan + bring down the heat a little. Fry for about 3mins or until the fillet will move away from the base easily. Now sear the edges of the fillet + place into the oven for 1min. Slice it up!

Place spinach, cucumber, mint, coriander, spring onion + baby gem onto a large chopping board. Chop it all up until roughly chopped. Add to a bowl along with the noodles, seed mix, trout + dressing. Toss everything together + eat straight away.