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ZINGy Pad Thai Salad

All the pad Thai ingredients but no cooking required! Perfect summer dish to beat the heat and load up on flavor and fresh summer veggies!

Prep Time: 15 minutes| Difficulty: Very Easy | Serves 8

Ingredients

  • 1 150g pkg enerjiVe™ super soy ribbons OR your favorite wide brown rice noodles , cooked
  • 1 cup carrot ribbons
  • 1 cup zucchini ribbons
  • 1 red pepper, thinly sliced
  • 1 cup bean sprouts
  • ½ cup sliced green onions
  • ¼ cup each: finely chopped fresh basil and cilantro

 

Dressing

  • ¼ cup sunflower oil
  • ¼ cup orange juice
  • 2 tbsp. each:  soy sauce (gluten Free) and lime juice
  • 1 tbsp. finely minced fresh ginger
  • 1 tsp. sesame oil
  • 1 tsp. garlic chili sauce

 

Topping

 

Directions

  1. In a large serving bowl combine noodles, carrots, zucchini, pepper, sprouts, onions and fresh herbs.
  2. In medium bowl, whisk together sunflower oil, orange juice, soy sauce, lime juice, ginger, sesame oil and garlic sauce.
  3. Before serving, drizzle salad with dressing, toss well and top with crushed ZING pieces and crumbs. Serve immediately.

 

*TIP

To make veggie ribbons, use a vegetable peeler and peel veggie lengthwise from top to bottom. Keep peeling until veggie is thin and limp. Watch your fingers!

 


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Mushroom Tarragon Noodles

Finely chopping some of the mushrooms give this sauce a meaty texture and the food processor makes preparation a snap. Be careful not to turn veggies into mush. Use the pulse button. Mushrooms can be chopped by hand as well.

Prep time: 5 minutes  | Cooking time: 15 minutes

Ingredients

  • enerjiVe Super Soy Spaghetti
  • 1 small onion 1/2 cup (125 ml) chopped
  • 1 red pepper, cut into large uniform pieces
  • 8 oz cremini mushrooms (about 10)
  • 8 oz sliced mushrooms
  • 2 tbsp (30 ml) olive oil
  • 3 tbsp (45 ml) enerjiVe tarragon chive nu herbal infusion
  • 3/4 cup (175 ml) vegetable broth, more to taste

Directions

  1. In large pot, bring water to boil, cook noodles for 6 minutes.
  2. Meanwhile, In food processor, pulse and finely chop onions; set aside. Add red pepper pieces, pulse in food processor until finely chopped, set aside, repeat with cremini  mushrooms.
  3. In large saucepan, over high heat, add olive oil, saute onion, peppers and mushrooms for 10-12 minutes or until softened and most of the liquid has evaporated, reduce heat to medium low, stir in tarragon chive herbal infuser and vegetable broth, toss well.
  4. Drain noodles, transfer to bowl, top with mushroom tarragon mixture. Extend with additional broth if desired.

Cooking tips

  1. Food processor makes you a whiz in the kitchen, don’t forget it can go into the dishwasher.
  2. Make this sauce into soup by adding more broth and  pureeing with hand immersion blender.
  3. Sauce is delicious over steak, chicken or salmon.
  4. Make it noodle soup: bring 4 cups broth to a simmer add 1 cup carrots finely chopped, 2 cups chopped cooked chicken or shrimp, 2 cups noodles, 1 cup mushroom tarragon sauce…yin yang yum!

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