Thai Noodle Salad (Hillstone Restaurant Copy Cat)

Since moving to Chicago, I haven’t missed much about the Boston food scene. To be honest, there is only one dish from one restaurant that I am missing and today I woke up and realized that I  had to have it. This dish embodies all my favorite Asian flavors and it’s a salad that I always crave.

This dish is the Thai Noodle Salad from Hillstone! Heard of it?

Making this salad was actually much easier than I thought and I think I’ve come up with the perfect copy cat recipe. Whether you’ve had this before or haven’t gotten the chance to try it, I promise you that this recipe is delicious!

Thai Noodle Salad (Hillstone Restaurant Copy Cat)

Whether you’ve had this before or haven’t gotten the chance to try it, I promise you that this recipe is delicious!

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Total Time 10 minutes mins

Servings: 1

Course: Salad

Cuisine: Asian

Ingredients Method

Ingredients

  

Dressing

• ⅓ cup Fresh Lime Juice
• 4 tbsp Orange Juice
• 2 tbsp Light Brown Sugar
• 2 tsp Sriracha Chili Sauce
• 3 Large Garlic Cloves pressed
• 3 tbsp Neutral Flavored Oil such as Canola
• ½ tsp Sesame Oil

Salad

• 1/4 cup Round Udon Noodles 4 oz; cook per package directions, drain & cool
• 6 cups Napa Cabbage thinly sliced; 1/2 a cabbage
• 2 Handfuls of Baby Arugula
• ½ cup Torn Thai Basil Leaves regular basil is fine if you can’t find it
• 10 Cherry Tomatoes or Grape Tomatoes halved
• 1 Small Carrot shredded
• 1 Ripe Mango pitted and cubed
• 2 Avocados peeled and cubed
• ½ cup Scallions chopped; about one bunch
• 1 cup Peanuts roughly chopped; put peanuts in a plastic bag and bang lightly a few times with something heavy

Method

 

1. Cook the pasta according to the ingredients on the package.
2. For the dressing, combine lime juice, OJ, sugar, siracha and garlic in a bowl. Add the oil and whisk together. Set aside.
   
3. Toss the noodles with the arugula, cabbage, carrots, tomatoes, basil and scallions. Add the dressing, avocado and mango and lightly toss the salad some more (be careful not to mash the avocado or mango).
   
4. Top with crushed peanuts and serve with sliced steak or chicken!
   

I made a delicious steak to go on top of it (like they do at Hillstone). For the marinade I just used garlic, ginger, soy sauce and sesame oil. Super simple! 

Love always,
Erica