Bang bang prawn salad

Name: Bang bang prawn salad
Prep time: 6 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 16 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Vietnamese
Ingredients: 140g Rice Noodles; 3 tablespoons Peanut Butter; 4 tablespoons Coconut Milk; 3 tablespoons sweet chilli sauce; 3 sliced thinly Spring Onions; 1 sliced Cucumber; 300g Bean Sprouts; 200g Prawns

By The Spice & Simmer Kitchen · Published May 3, 2026

A one-pot Seafood recipe with Vietnamese flavors, built for busy weeknights when you want real food without a sink full of dishes. Comes together in roughly 40 minutes, serves about 4, and uses ingredients you can find at any normal grocery store. The technique is simple: build a base in your pot, layer in the main ingredients, simmer until everything has had time to talk to each other, and serve straight from the pan. If you're cooking for picky eaters, this one tends to land — the flavors are recognizable, the texture is comforting, and there's nothing weird hiding in the ingredient list. Perfect for the kind of evening where you want dinner on the table by 7pm and the kitchen empty by 7:30.

Step-by-step instructions

step 1.
Cook the noodles following pack instructions, then rinse under cold water and drain thoroughly. In a small saucepan melt together the peanut butter, coconut milk, sweet chilli sauce and half the spring onions, adding 1-2 tbsp of water to loosen the mixture to a drizzling consistency.
step 2.
Mix the noodles, cucumber and beansprouts in a serving dish. Top with the prawns, drizzle over the peanut sauce and scatter over the remaining spring onions.

Why this works on a weeknight

Bang bang prawn salad genuinely fits a 30-minute weeknight window, which is why it earned a spot in our Big Salad Bowls collection. The technique is forgiving, the ingredient list is grocery-store standard, and the active cooking time is short enough that you can answer a text message in the middle without ruining dinner.

Cleanup notes

This is a single-pan recipe, so the cleanup is exactly one pan, one cutting board, and one knife. While the dish rests, fill the pan with hot soapy water — by the time you are done eating, the residue lifts off with a single pass of a sponge. Skip the steel wool on cast iron; a stiff brush and warm water are all you need to keep the seasoning intact.

Make-ahead and leftovers

Leftovers keep covered in the fridge for up to three days. Reheat in a dry pan over medium-low with a splash of water or stock to loosen the sauce. Bang bang prawn salad actually improves overnight as the flavors keep talking to each other, so doubling the recipe and packing tomorrow's lunch is a high-leverage weeknight move.

Filed under 🥗 Big Salad Bowls Seafood Vietnamese ⚡ 30-Min Dinner