Name: Pineapple and Cucumber Salad (Acar Mentah)
Cuisine: Malaysian
Ingredients: Ripe pineapple ½, peeled and thinly sliced; Torch ginger bud ½, finely sliced; Onion 1, peeled and thinly sliced; Cucumber 1, peeled, cored and thinly sliced; Kaffir lime leaves 2, finely sliced; Red chillies 2, seeded; Dried prawns (shrimps) 100 g (3½ oz), soaked and drained; Dried prawn (shrimp) paste (belacan) 2-cm (1-in), toasted; Sugar to taste; Kalamansi lime juice to taste; Salt to taste

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Best of Chef Wan Volume 1

By Chef Wan

Published 2018

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Ingredients

Ripe pineapple ½, peeled and thinly sliced
Cucumber 1, peeled, cored and thinly sliced
Kaffir lime leaves

Method

Combine ingredients for spice paste in a mortar and pound until smooth.
Mix the pineapple and cucumber slices with the pounded ingredients in a bowl. Toss well.
Garnish with kaffir lime leaves, torch ginger bud and onion. Serve immediately.