Thai watermelon salad
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- Easy
- Serves 4
Ingredients
- 3 tbsp palm sugar or soft brown sugar
- 5 tbsp fish sauce
- 2 cloves garlic, roughly chopped
- 3 bird’s eye chilli
- 1 1/2 lime, juiced
- 500g watermelon, seeds removed and cut into chunks
- 1 tbsp roasted peanuts, roughly chopped
- a handful of leaves mint, shredded
- a handful of leaves Thai basil, shredded
Method
- 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!
