Vietnamese Grilled Prawn Salad

Apr 04 07:02pm
Ingredients
* 2 tablespoons fish sauce
* 2 tablespoons light soy sauce
* 1 spring onion, finely sliced
* 1 clove garlic, crushed
* 2 teaspoons castor sugar
* 1 tablespoon peanut oil
* 16-20 green prawns,peeled, deveined and tails left intact
* 1 large pink grapefruit, segmented
* 1 large carrot, peeled and cut into julienne strips
* 1 lebanese cucumber, peeled and cut into julienne strips (or matchstick thin strips)
* 1/2 green chilli, seeded and finely chopped
* 1/4 cup roasted peanuts, roughly chopped
* extra peanut oil, for cooking
* juice of 1/2 a lime
* 1 cup basil leaves, shredded
* 1 small bunch coriander, stalks removed and leaves roughly chopped
Method

Combine fish sauce, soy sauce, spring onion, garlic, castor sugar and peanut oil in a large bowl. Add prawns, and stir well to completely coat with marinade. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.

Combine grapefruit, carrot, cucumber, chilli and peanuts in a bowl and set aside.

Heat a non stick BBQ plate or non stick frypan. Add a small splash of oil, add prawns and cook for 2 minutes, before turning over and cooking on remaining side. Cook until opaque in colour.

Remove and toss into salad ingredients with lime juice and herbs. Serve immediately.

Food 4 Life: Friday, 23nd March 2007

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