Thai Food Recipes: Thai Salad Recipe: Yum Woon Sen Salad Recipe

I just love Thai food recipes! They are so varied and unique that you can do just about anything you want with them. On of my favorite aspects to Thai food recipes is the wide array of flavors and textures that you find in Thai foods! This is why I am writing about the recent Thai salad recipe that I had for dinner last night. It has been really hot here in Vegas lately. We have had temps around 101 to 107 and humidity between 20 and 40 percent which is huge out here in the high desert.

I made a Thai salad recipe last night called Yum Woon Sen which is a Thai salad recipe that can be served hot or cold. I prefer mine to be chilled. I made this salad recipe because I didn't want to turn on my oven for a long period of time adding heat to my house. I did have to fry up some garlic and shallots for this Thai salad recipe but that was only for a couple of minutes at a stretch. I did have to boil some water to cook the noodles but no extended periods of heat in the kitchen this week.

The Yum Woon Sen Salad recipe is made with mung bean noodles that are called by many names in the Asian markets that you may shop at. Names like Saifun, Glass noodle, Glass thread, Mung bean thread, and Cellophane noodles. This neat little noodle isn't clear like glass until you cook them but I love the rubbery texture of this noodle and it sucks up the flavors of whatever they are mixed with.  These mung bean threads really make a  great Thai salad recipe.

There are as many variations of Yum Woon Sen as there are Thai people eating it. My  version of this Thai salad recipe will use dried shrimp that are fried. In some restaurants they add large cooked shrimp to the Yum Woon Sen salad recipe to dress it up a bit and that is fine.  Street vendors in Thailand make this Thai salad recipe with shrimp, pork, sausage and other seafood types like squid. Remember: "There are no rules in cooking!"

I have found that the two most popular Thai food recipes out there are Tom Yum Goong soup and Pad Thai! I find that many people are more familiar with these two Thai food recipes and are not to aware of Thai salad recipes. So the next time you go to your local Thai restaurant order up a plate of Yum Woon Sen you will love it! The best thing to do is to make it at home yourself because you can do so much with the recipe and make it to your exact liking and you will find that Yum Woon Sen is one of those Thai food recipes that are very versatile indeed! So check out my video and then make some Yum Woon Sen and make this Thai salad recipe your own!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm0vnn9Oaro
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