Watermelon salad
Watermelon is this year’s trendy ingredient and stands in for green papaya in this update of a Thai classic
- Total:
- Serves: 4 persons
Ingredients
- 3tbsp palm sugar or soft brown sugar
- 5tbsp fish sauce
- 2cloves garlic, roughly chopped
- 3bird’s eye chilli
- 1 ½lime, juiced
- 500g watermelon, seeds removed and cut into chunks
- 1tbsp roasted peanuts, roughly chopped
- a handful of leaves mint, shredded
- a handful of leaves Thai basil, shredded
Instructions
Step 1
Mix the sugar into the fish sauce. In a mortar, pound the garlic with a pestle, then add the chillies and pound again, leaving the chillies bruised but intact. Add the lime juice and fish sauce and pound again. Tip into a bowl with the watermelon and toss everything together. Sprinkle with peanuts and the herbs to serve. Avoid eating the whole chillies unless you are a heat fanatic; they’ll be incredibly hot!