Vietnamese chicken, cabbage and carrot salad recipe

A lip-smacking combination of south-east Asian flavours

We all appreciate the sweet/hot/salty/sour flavours of south-east Asian food. This was the first dish we ate on a tour of Hanoi that we did with a food blogger a few years ago. We were shocked that a dish with such simple components could taste this good. You can also add beansprouts and cooked cold rice vermicelli to this salad if you want it to go further. It’s easy to get ready-cooked rice vermicelli these days.
Prep time: 25 minutes, plus 40 minutes pickling
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For the pickling liquid