Vietnamese
Lemongrass Chicken Vermicelli Bowl
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Lemongrass Chicken Vermicelli Bowl is Vietnamese home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Marinate the chicken with the minced lemongrass, garlic, 2 tbsp fish sauce, and 1 tbsp sugar for 20 minutes.
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Whisk the remaining fish sauce, sugar, lime juice, and 3/4 cup warm water into a dressing.
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Soak the rice vermicelli in hot water until tender, then drain and divide among four bowls.
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Heat the oil in a skillet over medium-high and cook the chicken until caramelized and cooked through, about 12 minutes, then slice.
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Top the noodles with the sliced chicken, cucumber, carrots, and herbs.
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Spoon the dressing over each bowl and finish with chopped peanuts.
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Serve it with
A Vietnamese dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Lemongrass Chicken Vermicelli Bowl, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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Something to sip
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What it is eaten with
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Lemongrass Chicken Vermicelli Bowl carries peanuts and fish. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | Yes | Banh Mi Op La (Baguette with Fried Eggs) |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | Yes | Banh Mi Op La (Baguette with Fried Eggs) |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 520 kcal
- Protein
- 26 g
- Carbs
- 54 g
- Fat
- 22 g
- Fiber
- 2 g
- Sugar
- 5 g
- Sodium
- 630 mg
- Saturated fat
- 4 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Lemongrass Chicken Vermicelli Bowl takes about 45 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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