Do you know the Asian Yum Yum instant noodle soups that are available in different flavors in supermarkets? In this article we offer you recipes for the Yum Yum salad that will provide an unusual, interesting taste and can bring some variety to your salad buffet.
Prepare Yum Yum salad with Chinese cabbage quickly and easily
For the extraordinary salad you need the following basic ingredients:
- 1 medium Chinese cabbage
- 2 packs of Yum Yum noodles (chicken flavor)
- 1 onion
- 4 tbsp sunflower seeds
- 100 g Almond sticks
- oil
- 3 tbsp sugar
- 4 tbsp vinegar
- 2 tbsp water
- Salt
- Pfeffer
First roast the sunflower seeds and almond sticks in a coated pan without oil until golden brown and let them cool. Cut onion and Chinese cabbage. The dressing is prepared from the spice mixture of the pasta, oil, water, vinegar, sugar, salt and pepper. Mash the noodle and add it to the dressing.
Let the salad sit for 20 minutes. Finally, add the finely chopped Chinese cabbage with the roasted sunflower seeds and almond slivers and mix everything together. If you want, you can also prepare the salad with iceberg lettuce.
Healthy Yum Yum salad without glutamate
If you want to enjoy a delicious Yum Yum salad without the seasoning, you can try this recipe with chicken breast. For three servings you will need:
- 1 Chinakohl
- 120g instant noodles
- 400 g chicken breast fillet
- vegetable broth
- 1 bunch of spring onions
- 100 g almond, sliced or chopped
- 60 ml soy sauce
- 3 tbsp sugar
- 40 ml vinegar
- 60 ml
- 1 tsp cornstarch
- 50 ml Teriyaki-Soße
- 1 EL Honig
- Oil or clarified butter for frying
- Salt and pepper
Make a sauce using vinegar, soy sauce, oil, sugar and honey. Put the ingredients in a pot and let them simmer briefly. Thicken the sauce with cornstarch and let it cool. Crumble the noodles and put them in a pan with a little fat and roast them briefly together with the almonds. Then add 1 tablespoon of broth to the almond pasta mixture.
Mix the chopped spring onions and Chinese cabbage with the noodles. Cut the chicken into strips and fry on all sides, season with salt and pepper and deglaze with the teriyaki sauce. Mix everything together and enjoy. If you want to try a delicious, vegan salad, you can of course leave out the meat.
Yum Yum Salad with Balsamic
For three servings you need the following ingredients:
- 2 packs of Yum Yum noodles
- half Chinese cabbage
- Nuts
- 2 spring onions
- 1-2 Paprika
- 3 THE Balsamic
- 3 tbsp vinegar
- 4 tbsp brown sugar
- oil
- Salt
Soak noodles in water
In contrast to the previous recipes, here the noodles are poured with boiling water and soaked. Chop the Chinese cabbage, onions and peppers into small pieces. Mix the spice mixture with the balsamic vinegar, sugar and salt. Drain the water from the pasta and mix all the ingredients together.
Refined with pine nuts
- 1 pack of noodles
- half Chinese cabbage or pointed cabbage
- 1 pack dill herb salad crowning
- 100 ml hot water
- 2-3 tbsp pine nuts
- 2 EL Kill
Crumble the noodles and soak them in boiling water. Cut the pointed cabbage into fine strips and season with the dill spice mixture. Roast the pine nuts in a pan and then mix all the ingredients.
Curry recipe
You can actually prepare the dressing for this delicious salad the day before. Below we have selected a recipe for the curry dressing for you. Whether you prepare the Yum Yum noodles raw, lightly fried or soaked in boiling water is completely up to you and of course depends on which preparation method you like best:
- 50 ml white balsamic vinegar
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- oil
- 50g sugar
- 1 tbsp instant vegetable broth
- Curry
- Pepper and possibly salt
Prepare delicious curry dressing
For the curry dressing, boil vinegar, sugar and soy sauce. Let the mixture cool for a quarter of an hour and then add the oil, stock and spices. Allow the finished dressing to cool completely and stir it again before use.
Colorful salad with rice noodles
You are welcome to modify the recipe for this unusual salad to suit your taste. Here is a recipe with fresh vegetables that not only tastes delicious, but also looks very appealing:
- half Chinese cabbage
- 2 packs of noodles
- 3 nests of rice noodles
- 2 pointed peppers, red
- 4 carrots
- 1 bunch of parsley
- 1 colorful chives
- 1 tbsp almond sticks
- 1 tbsp sunflower seeds
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 3 tbsp herbal vinegar
- 5 EL Kill
- 1 tbsp sugar
- Salt
Clean and cut all vegetables into fine strips. Mix to make the dressing and pour boiling water over the resin noodles and let them steep for 5 minutes. Rinse them off immediately with cold water. Then mix everything together and sprinkle the roasted nuts over the salad.
Recipe with iceberg lettuce and Asian flavors
For the version of the salad with iceberg lettuce and Asian spices you will need:
- small iceberg lettuce
- 100 g Yum Yum Nudeln
- 50 g almond sticks
- 50 g sunflower seeds
- 2-3 carrots
- 2 spring onions
- 1 teaspoon Asian herbs, dry
- 1/2 teaspoon Thai basil, dried
- 1 tsp vegetable broth powder
- 1/2 ginger, grated
- 8 EL Kill
- 3 tbsp vinegar
- 2 tbsp water
- Pinch of sugar, salt and pepper
In this recipe, the pasta is crumbled into the marinade and mixed with the remaining ingredients after 20-30 minutes. If you are organizing an Asian themed evening, this delicious salad is ideal as a starter or side dish.
Mie pasta salad with sesame
In this recipe, the Yum Yum noodles are replaced by Mie noodles without a ready-made spice mix. The ingredients you need for the salad are:
- 250g Mie noodles
- half Chinese cabbage
- 3 tablespoons sesame, sunflower seeds and almonds
- Coconut oil
- sesame oil
- 2 tbsp chive rolls
- 1/2 onions
- 1 tsp vegetable broth
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 2 teaspoons coconut blossom sugar or brown sugar
- 1 THE Genmai-Misopaste
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 1/2 Paprika powder
- 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
The Mie noodles are cooked for about 3 minutes. Mix half a cup of the cooking water with the diced onions, sugar, stock and miso paste and stir. Drain the water from the noodles and pour sesame oil over the noodles. Mix the strips of Chinese cabbage, the roasted nut mixture and onions and taste everything again.
Modify recipes to suit your own taste
Once you know the basic ingredients and have found the preparation method that you like best, you can also create your own creations and season or modify the salad according to your own taste with other spices and products.
