Summary
Servings:
1
Prep time:
30 minutes
Description
Thai Swede Salad
Ingredients
- 1 clove of garlic
- 1 red/green bird's eye chili
- 2 tablespoon dried shrimp
- 1 teaspoon brown sugar, or more to taste
- 2 tablespoon roasted peanuts
- 8 cherry tomatoes
- 1 bunch fine green beans
- 1 lime, juiced
- 1 tablespoon fish sauce
- 6 oz swede, cut into strands
Instructions
- Cut the swede into thin strands and boil for 3 minutes in unsalted water. The fish sauce will add all the salt you need later.
- In a pestle and mortar, grind the garlic, brown sugar and bird's eye chilies until they form a smooth paste. The sugar grains will help to grind the garlic to a pulp.
- Add the dried shrimp and pound until the pieces are broken up.
- Add the brown sugar.
- Add the peanuts and lightly pound until they are broken into pieces - large or small as you prefer but not to a paste.
- Cut the green beans in half crossways and crush them with the mortar until they're crushed enough to absorb the flavours.
- Add the tomatoes and pound on them to bruise them. The tomatoes should stay whole but release their juices. Add the swede and mix in.
- Add fish sauce and all the juice of a lime and mix together.
- Mix really well and add more fish sauce, lime juice, or sugar as needed.