Crispy Asian Salad
| Published: 25th June 2007 11:46 |
A colourful salad that has bags of Asian flavour and makes a crisp and crunchy treat.
Crispy Asian Salad
- Serves: 4
- Preparation Time: 15 minutes
Ingredients
1/2 Savoy cabbage, finely shredded
1/2 white cabbage, finely shredded
1/2 Red cabbage, finely shredded
2 Carrots, cut into matchsticks
6 Raddished, cut into matchsticks
small bunch mint leaves, picked
small bunch Thai basil leaves, picked
small bunch coriander leaves, picked
For the vinaigrette
150ml grapeseed oil
3 banana shallots, finely sliced
2 stalks Lemon grass, finely chopped
2-3 Thai bird's eye chillies, finely sliced
2 tbsp nam pla (Thai fish sauce)
4 limes, juice only
50ml rice wine vinegar
1 tbsp Sesame Oil
1 tbsp toasted sesame seeds, to garnish
freshly ground salt and pepper
Method
1. Combine all the salad ingredients in a bowl and mix well.
2. Heat the grapeseed oil in a saucepan. Remove from the heat and stir in the shallots, lemongrass and chillies. Gradually pour in the fish sauce, lime juice, vinegar and sesame oil.
3. Put the vinaigrette back over the heat and bring to a simmer, then pour over the cabbage mixture to coat and wilt the leaves. Finally sprinkle the salad with toasted sesame seeds and serve straight away.
What do you think?
You will need to sign in to post a comment to this article. if you do not have an AboutMyArea account, you can join now for free.
