Vietnamese Noodle Bowl

Ingredients for 4 servings

Chicken:

• 1 lb chicken thighs
• 2 cloves garlic
• Juice of 1 lime
• 2 T fish sauce
• 1 T soy sauce
• 1 T vegetable oil
• 2 T brown sugar

Nuoc Cham sauce:

• 1/3 C water (reduced from 1/2 C because this makes too much sauce)
• 3 cloves garlic
• Juice of 1 lime
• 2 T rice wine vinegar
• 1/4 C fish sauce
• 3 T sugar
• 1 red chili

Other:

• 6 oz rice noodles
• lettuce
• 1 carrot
• 1 cucumber
• cilantro
• basil

Mix all of the marinade ingredients and marinade the chicken for 30 minutes.

Soak the noodles in warm water for ~20 minutes.

Mix the Nuoc Cham.

Peel and julienne the carrots; thinly slice the cucumber and lettuce.

Sear the chicken over medium-high for ~4 minutes on each side. Boil the noodles until tender (this should only take a minute or two).

Combine everything in bowls.

From The Woks of Life; we found this to be a bit too much sauce for the bowls.