Here are the possible reasons why you want to make this salad:
- You like Thai food
- You just gained 2kg last week
- Yesterday, you had your in laws over for dinner. Since you try to impress the parents of your one, your only one, your everything; you cooked this wonderful white fish and you forgot that they were devoted vegans… again
- The weather is awesome today, and you want to eat something which suits your summer dress
- After watching “Hangover 2”, you fell disappointed and in the same time, you remember how great and wild your trip in Thailand after graduation was. Now that you are settled you really need to taste the energy, the freshness, the sweetness, the spice from the old times…
- You think that if a recipe is on this blog, it has to be awesome… you guys!
Whatever the reason, you probably will like it!
For 6 buddies or BFFs
- 250 g of white fish filets deboned (I used two left over dorado)
- Sunflower oil to fry
- 2 small red onions very finely sliced
- 6 sliced spring onions
- 1 sliced stick of celery
- 3 sliced Lebanese cucumber (they are small cucumbers with a more crunchy and tasteful flesh)
- 5 sliced leaves of Chinese cabbage
- 1 hand of fresh coriander
- 1 hand of fresh mint, use Thai mint if you can
- 2 TS of grilled peanuts
For the dressing:
- 2 de-seeded and very finely sliced Green chilies - 2 Limes : the zest and the juice
- 1 TS of palm sugar or brown sugar
- 1 ½ TS of fish sauce
So the only technical difficulty during the preparation of this dish –besides avoiding slicing your fingers instead of the vegetables- is to get this fish crispy. The first step is to cook the fish: season the filets on the two faces, then bake them with a little oil at 150C° for 20 minutes. Now crush roughly the flesh in a cuter or with your knife.
Preheat the oil in a pan, add the fish and let it crispy up for 15 minutes on a low heat
Remove the colored flakes of fish and leave it dry on paper.
Zest your limes, keep it
For the dressing: mix the fish sauce, the lime juice, the sugar and the sliced chilies until the sugar dissolved totally. Do not mix the dressing in the salad now, the acidity and the salt that contains the fish sauce would “cook” your salad !So let’s sum up, your salad mix is ready, your dressing is ready, your guests arrived late, you made two or three bad jokes during the aperitif… Time to move on!
Now add the dressing to your sliced vegetables; serve it on the 6 plates
Sprinkle the herbs, the zest and the peanuts
Enjoy and correct your humor
