Chilli oil udon and salmon salad: Justin Tsang’s speedy noodle recipes for one

At this clip of year, I find myself swaying towards lighter meals and bolder flavours, and particularly recipes that see a ton of herbs, citrus and spice. Noodles are my go-to taxable successful the warmer months, and for bully reason: they’re super-versatile, tin beryllium eaten blistery oregon cold, and they soak up flavours similar a sponge. These recipes for 1 are besides speedy, low-fuss and impact minimal cooking – cleanable for maximising your clip outdoors.

Chilli lipid udon (pictured top)

These are inspired by my travels crossed China and its emotion for each things spicy noodles. A perfectly balanced condiment made with soy, vinegar and herbs means these salty, sweet, sour and spicy noodles are incredibly addictive.

For the sauce
1 tbsp airy soy sauce
1 tsp acheronian soy sauce
1 tsp oyster sauce
1 tsp black Chinese vinegar
1 tsp achromatic sugar
½ tsp MSG
½ tsp sesame oil

Put each the ingredients for the chilli oil, barroom the oil, successful a serving vessel (the 1 you program to devour from) and disturbance to combine. Put the rootlike lipid successful a tiny frying cookware connected a precocious vigor for a minute, until conscionable shy of smoking, past determination this implicit the contents of the vessel and disturbance to coat. Add each the ingredients for the sauce, past disturbance until the sweetener dissolves and everything is good combined.

Cook the noodles successful a cookware of boiling h2o for a infinitesimal shy of the packet instructions (to guarantee they’re al dente). Drain and transportation to the vessel with the sauce. Top with the coriander and cucumber, past flip precise well, to marque definite each the condiment astatine the bottommost of the vessel is incorporated and coating the noodles. Serve topped with a fried egg, if you like, for immoderate protein.

Salmon noodle salad

Justin Tsang’s salmon noodle salad.

50g bundle glass noodles, rehydrated successful acold water
1 outpouring onion, achromatic portion finely minced, greenish portion julienned
90g blistery smoked salmon, flaked
1 large fistful mixed crockery leaves
10g caller coriander, astir chopped
10g caller mint, leaves picked and astir chopped
10g chives
¼ red onion, thinly sliced
¼ cucumber, julienned
1 tbsp shop-bought fried shallots
1 tbsp unsalted roasted peanuts, chopped

For the dressing
1 reddish chilli, stalk, seeds and pith removed, soma finely minced
1 ail clove, peeled and grated
10g ginger, peeled and grated
1½ tbsp airy soy sauce
Juice of 1 lime
2 tsp airy brownish sugar
1 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
1 tsp sesame oil
1 tsp toasted sesame seeds

Put the noodles successful a vessel and soak successful boiling h2o for 5 to 7 minutes (or navigator them according to the packet instructions). Drain and transportation to a ample bowl, then, utilizing scissors, chopped each the noodles successful half.

Put each the dressing ingredients and the minced outpouring bulb whites successful a vessel and disturbance until the sweetener dissolves.

Put the salmon, crockery leaves, herbs, outpouring bulb greens, reddish bulb and cucumber into the noodle bowl, determination implicit the dressing and flip until thoroughly combined and good coated.

Transfer the noodles to a platter, sprinkle with the fried shallots and roasted peanuts, past serve.

• Long Day? Cook This: Easy East Asian Recipes with a Twist, by Justin Tsang, is published successful August by Ebury Press astatine £26. To pre-order a transcript for £23.40, sojourn guardianbookshop.com