Asian Salad Recipes - Thai Lao Salad (Salat) Recipe

Ingredients

• 6 large lettuce leaves

• 1 cucumber, thinly sliced

• 1 red and 1 green sweet pepper, cored, deseeded and thinly sliced

• 3 hard-boiled eggs, shelled and quartered

• coriander leaves, to garnish

For the dressing:

• 175g (6oz) minced pork

• 2 tablespoons fish sauce

• 2 level teaspoons sugar

• 2 small red or green chilies, finely chopped

• 2 tablespoons lime juice

• 1 tablespoon garlic oil

• 1 heaped tablespoon ground roast peanuts

Serves 4

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Method:

1. Arrange the lettuce, cucumber and pepper slices on a serving platter, place the egg quarters on the salad and set aside. 

2. Prepare the dressing: heat 3 tablespoons of water in a pan, add the pork together with all the dressing ingredients except the garlic oil and the peanuts and simmer until the pork is just cooked through, about 2 - 3 minutes.

3. Remove from the heat. Add the garlic oil and ground peanuts, and stir well Turn out on to the salad platter, garnish with coriander leaves and serve.