Episode 1 Notes:

Sara’s Healthy Recipe #1- “Thai Peanut Noodles With Shrimp”

Ingredients:

· -1/3 cup light coconut milk

· -1/3 cup no-salt-added tomato juice

· -1/4 cup unsalted, natural peanut butter (crunchy or smooth)

· -2 tbsp Thai fish sauce

· -3 tbsp fresh lime juice

· -1 tbsp raw honey

· -¼ tsp crushed red pepper flakes

· -1 lb medium raw shrimp, peeled and deveined, tails on or off

· -8oz brown rice noodles

· -2 cups thinly sliced Napa cabbage (about ½ small head)

· -1 green onion, thinly sliced

· -3tbsp each chopped fresh mint and cilantro

· -3 tbsp unsalted peanuts, crushed

Instructions:

1) In large bowl, whisk coconut milk with tomato juice, peanut butter, fish sauce, lime juice, honey and pepper flakes.

2) Bring a large pot of water to a boil on high heat.  Add shrimp and cook until opaque, about 3 minutes.  Using a slotted spoon, transfer shrimp to bowl with coconut milk mixture.

3) In same large pot, cook noodles according to package directions or until tender, about 6 minutes.  Drain and rinse well.  Add noodles to bowl with shrimp.  Add cabbage, onion, mint and cilantro; toss to coat.  Top with peanuts.

From “Clean Eating Magazine,” July 2011