Vietnamese
Lemongrass Chicken Vermicelli Bowl
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
- 1.5 lb boneless skinless chicken thighs
- 12 oz rice vermicelli
- 2 lemongrass stalks
- 4 garlic cloves
- 1/4 cup fish sauce
- 3 tbsp sugar
- 3 tbsp lime juice
- 1 cucumber
- 1.5 cups shredded carrots
- 2 cups fresh herbs
- 1/3 cup chopped peanuts
- 2 tbsp neutral oil
How to cook it
- Marinate the chicken with the minced lemongrass, garlic, 2 tbsp fish sauce, and 1 tbsp sugar for 20 minutes.
- Whisk the remaining fish sauce, sugar, lime juice, and 3/4 cup warm water into a dressing.
- Soak the rice vermicelli in hot water until tender, then drain and divide among four bowls.
- Heat the oil in a skillet over medium-high and cook the chicken until caramelized and cooked through, about 12 minutes, then slice.
- Top the noodles with the sliced chicken, cucumber, carrots, and herbs.
- Spoon the dressing over each bowl and finish with chopped peanuts.
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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Something to sip
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 | Bun Cha |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | Yes | Lemongrass Tofu Stir-Fry |
| 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
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Moderate
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Grains, Vegetables, Meat or fish, and Nuts and seeds
- How this was set
- Hand audited
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.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on noodle, chicken, and peanut.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
Meal suggestions support your goals. They are not medical advice. Please ask your doctor about your family's health needs.