Asian Salad Recipes - Cambodia Egg and Sweet Pepper Salad (Yoam Pong Sungao Mat Tet) Recipe

Ingredients

• mixed seasonal salad

• 3 medium red or green sweet peppers

• 2 large red chilies

• 4 small red shallots

• 4 large garlic cloves

• 1 heaped tablespoon ground dried shrimp, to garnish

• 2 hard-boiled eggs, shelled and quartered

• coriander leaves, to garnish

For the dressing:

• 2 tablespoons fish sauce

• 1 teaspoon palm sugar

• 2 tablespoons lime juice

Serves 4

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Method

1. Place the salad in a bowl and set aside. 

2. Preheat a moderate grill and grill the sweet peppers, chilies, shallots and garlic until the skins of the sweet peppers are blackened and blistered.

3. Remove from the heat and peel away the loose skins. Cut all the grilled vegetables into thin slices, place in the bowl with the salad and set aside.

4. In another bowl, mix all the dressing ingredients. pour over the salad and mix well.

5. Just before serving, stir in the dried shrimp and turn out on to a plate. Place the egg on top of the salad, garnish with coriander leaves and serve.