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Prawn and mango noodle salad
- Prep time:
- 20 mins
- Cook time:
- 20 mins
- Serves:
- 4
Chef Wan’s traditional Malaysian salad – known as a kerabu – is a taste-tingling combination of sweet, spicy, hot and sour flavours
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Ingredients
- 500g freshwater Prawns
- 200g glass noodles
- 2 Mango, 1 ripe, 1 unripe, peeled and finely sliced
- 2 Thai lime leaves, finely sliced
- 15g chopped coriander leaves
- 2 tbsp chopped mint leaves
- 55g crisp fried Shallots
- 60 ml Fish Sauce, see Cook’s note below
- 1 lime, juice only
- 1 pinch Sugar
- salad greens, to serve
- 85g Peanuts, roasted and ground, to garnish
For the paste
- 6 red chillies
- 225 g dried shrimps, soaked in hot water and drained
- 2 tbsp shrimp paste, toasted
- 3 cloves Garlic, peeled
- 3 tbsp grated Palm sugar
- 2 Tomatoes, chopped
Method
1. For the finely pounded paste: put all the ingredients into a mortar and grind with the pestle until they form a fine paste. Alternatively, process all the ingredients in a food processor until finely ground.2. Peel the prawns and blanch briefly in a saucepan of boiling water until they just change colour. Refresh under cold water and drain well.
3. Pour boiling water over the glass noodles and soak until softened and translucent. Run under cold water for 3 minutes to remove any excess starch. Drain well.
4. In a large bowl, combine the prawns, noodles, finely pounded paste, mango, herbs, fried shallots, nam pla and lime juice and mix well. Season to taste with salt and a pinch of sugar. Add more lime juice to taste.
5. To serve, line a serving dish with salad greens, put the prawn and mango mixture on top and garnish with ground peanuts.
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