Gluten Free Aussie January 2, 2014 No Comments
Vietnamese Prawn Salad
Hi everyone, I love cooking and have recently looked into gluten free cooking also. I've shared my recipes on www.tickalicious.com if you're looking for meal ideas.. here's the latest one. Hope you like it 🙂 Estimated Preparation Time - 90 mins (excluding 4 hour marinade beforehand) Serves 20
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Ingredients
  1. 2 kgs of finely sliced carrots (julienne)
  2. 2 kg of julienne white asian radish
  3. 1 kg of thinly sliced red capsicum
  4. 1/2 kg of thinly sliced celery
  5. 4 cups of Vietnamese mint (or a herb of your choice, either mint or basil)
  6. 1/2Litre of vinegar
  7. 4 cups of sugar
  8. 1 Litre of water
  9. 1 kg of pork fillet
  10. 1.5 kg of pre-cooked peeled prawns
  11. Fish sauce
  12. 1 cup of lemon juice
  13. 2 cups of sugar
  14. 1 cup of fish sauce
  15. 1/4 cup of crushed/sliced chilli (optional)
Instructions
  1. In a large bowl, pour in the 1/2 L of vinegar, 1 L of water, 4 cups of sugar and whisk till the sugar dissolves. This becomes your vinegarette.
  2. Pour the carrots, radish, celery and capsicum into the vinegarette and marinade the vegetables for 4 hours.
  3. In a pot, pour 1.5L of boiling water and add the pork fillet, 1 tsp of salt and 1/2 tsp of sugar. Gently boil the pork fillet until the meat is cooked. This should take about 20 minutes depending on the size of your pork fillet. Ensure you don't over cook the meat, as the texture will be dry and bland.
  4. Once cooked, allow the pork fillet to cool and slice into bite size pieces.
  5. After the 4 hour marinade, take the vegetables out of the marinade and drain well. To achieve this, it's best to allow the vegetables to drain in a colander for 1/2 hour.
  6. Once drained, combine the vegetables, pre cooked prawns, sliced pork fillet and herbs. Mix well and set aside.
Notes
  1. Fish Sauce Dressing
  2. 1.In a bowl, pour in the sugar, lemon juice and fish sauce and whisk till the sugar is dissolved. Add crushed chilli or sliced chilli if you like abit of heat.
  3. 2.Pour the fish sauce dressing into the vegetables, prawns and pork salad above and toss well. Serve with crush peanuts or any nut of your choice. If you're allergic to nuts, ground up toasted rice is also a delicious alternative.
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