Recipes
Hot & Sour Salad of Squid & Pork
A fragrant salad of roasted crispy pork and poached squid tossed through hot and sour herbs and splashed with a spicy lime dressing
Serves 2
For the dressing:
- 80ml fresh lime juice
- 1 tsp roasted Thai chilli powder
- 2 green chillies, finely sliced
- 20ml fish sauce
- 1 tsp roasted rice
For the salad:
- 200 g roasted pork belly
- 100g blanched squid or cuttlefish, thinly sliced
- 1 spring onion, sliced on a diagonal
- 1 red eschalot, sliced
- 5g coriander leaves
- 5g round mint leaves
- 5g Vietnamese mint
- 2 tsp roasted rice
- Mix all dressing ingredients together. It should taste hot, sour & salty
- Mix the herbs, eschalot & sliced squid together
- Place the sliced pork on the base of the serving plate then dress the salad generously
- Place squid over the crispy pork & garnish with the remaining roasted rice.