Lao yum salad recipe
 
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A delicious medley of crispy, fresh vegetables and herbs, egg, peanuts, sweet, sour and savoury egg-yolk dressing and infused garlic, ginger, shallot oil and chips.
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Recipe type: Salad
Cuisine: Lao
Serves: 4
Ingredients
  • 4 eggs (hard boiled)
  • 1 bunch of watercress
  • ½ head of iceberg lettuce
  • ½ head of radicchio
  • 1 Lebanese cucumber
  • 2 tomatoes
  • 2 radishes
  • 1 coriander
  • 1 spring onion
  • 1 Asian shallot
  • ½ cup of peanuts
  • 1 Tablespoon of garlic, ginger, shallot oil (including fried chips)
  • Dressing:
  • 1 Tablespoon of fish sauce
  • 1 Tablespoon of sugar
  • 1 lime
  • salt and pepper
Instructions
  1. Boil the eggs over medium heat until cooked.
  2. When the eggs are cooked, let them cool down and then peel and slice them in half length-ways. Remove egg yolk from 3 eggs and place in a mixing bowl. Slice the remaining egg white and other egg into segments and put aside.
  3. To make the dressing, mash up the egg yolk in the mixing bowl with a fork. Add the fish sauce, sugar, and salt & pepper. Squeeze in the lime juice. Mix together well. Adjust the flavour to suit your palate. What you’re aiming for is a delicious blend of eggy, savoury, sweet, sour and a little zippy!
  4. Prepare the vegetables and herbs. Wash and cut the watercress into about 10 cm lengths. Remove discoloured leaves, tough stems or roots if necessary. Wash and cut the iceberg lettuce and radicchio into about 5 cm segments. Wash, peel and thinly slice the cucumber into discs. Wash and thinly slice the tomatoes into discs. Wash and thinly slice the radish into discs. Wash, discard the root and cut the coriander into about 5 cm lengths. Wash, discard the root and thinly slice the spring onion and Asian shallot.
  5. On two large serving plates, neatly arrange the iceberg lettuce and radicchio. Neatly arrange the watercress on top.
  6. Then, neatly arrange the sliced tomatoes, cucumber, radish, egg, spring onion, Asian shallot and coriander on top.
  7. Give the salad dressing a stir and then drizzle it all over the salad.
  8. Randomly sprinkle the peanuts on top.
  9. Finally, drizzle the garlic, ginger, shallot oil (including the fried chips) all over the salad. Serve the salad immediately with chopsticks or cutlery.
  10. Mix the salad and dressing together before eating. This yum salad is delicious as a healthy light meal or served to complement a main meal. Sern saab! :)
Recipe by Padaek at http://padaek.com/lao-yum-salad-recipe/