Roast Duck Salad with Chilli Dressing

Name: Roast Duck Salad with Chilli Dressing
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: ½ teaspoon chilli flakes; 2½ tablespoons fish sauce; 1 tablespoon lime juice; 2 teaspoons grated palm sugar (jaggery) or soft brown sugar; 2 teaspoons grated palm sugar (jaggery) or soft brown sugar; 2 teaspoons grated palm sugar (jaggery) or soft brown sugar; 1 Chinese roasted duck; 1 small red onion, thinly sliced; 1 tablespoon julienned ginger; 4 tablespoons chopped coriander (cilantro); 4 tablespoons chopped coriander (cilantro); 4 tablespoons chopped mint; 80 g (2¾ oz/½ cup) roasted unsalted cashew nuts; 8 butter lettuce leaves

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Cook's Book of Everything

By Lulu Grimes

Published 2009

About

Ingredients

Chilli Dressing

½ teaspoon chilli flakes
2½ tablespoons fish sauce
1

Spicy
Gluten-free

Method

To make the chilli dressing, put the chilli flakes in a frying pan and dry-fry over medium heat for 30 seconds, then grind to a powder using a mortar and pestle or spice grinder. Put the powder in a small bowl with the fish sauce, lime juice and sugar. Mix well to dissolve the sugar and set aside.
Remove the flesh from the duck, cut it into bitesi