Duck Salad with Hot and Sour Dressing

Name: Duck Salad with Hot and Sour Dressing
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Thailand
Ingredients: matchstick batons of cucumber and celery (optional); 1 red and 1 green chilli pepper, deseeded and very finely chopped; 4 duck breast fillets, roasted or grilled and thinly sliced; 4 spring onions, finely chopped; chilli pepper, sliced and deseeded; chopped roasted peanuts (optional); 1–2 tablespoons lime juice; 3 tablespoons fish sauce; 2 garlic cloves, crushed or finely chopped; fresh crisp lettuce leaves; 2 shallots, thinly sliced; 1 teaspoon palm or demerara sugar; spring onions, chopped

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Best of Floyd

By Keith Floyd

Published 1995

About

Do try this creation – it is truly a palate-blowing experience. Each time I return to Koh Samui in Thailand it is the first meal I have that cures the fatigue and jetlag of the flight.

Ingredients

4 duck breast fillets, roasted or grilled and thinly sliced
fresh crisp lettuce leaves
2 shallots, thinly sliced
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Asia
Thailand
Gluten-free
South East Asia
Spicy

Method

Arrange the slices of duck on a bed of lettuce on a serving dish. Sprinkle over the shallots, spring onions and cucumber and celery, if you want.

To make the dressing, put the fish sauce, lime juice, garlic, chillies and sugar into a small pan, and heat through gently. The actual amount of ingredients is just a guide and you can experiment until it is to your liking. Pour the warm dress