Name: Best friend squid salad
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Burmese
Ingredients: 1 tbsp fish sauce; 500 g prepared and skinned baby squid tubes; 4 pink shallots or 1 small red onion, finely sliced; 4 firm tomatoes, cut into slim wedges and deseeded; 4 tiny hot red chillies, finely sliced; 2½ tbsp lime juice, plus ½ tsp finely grated zest; 1 tbsp caster sugar; ½ tsp salt; 1 clove garlic, crushed; 3-4 tbsp toasted crushed peanuts

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Food and Travels

By Alastair Hendy

Published 2004

About

Some nice ladies with polite lanterns at the Best Friend restaurant, Ngapali Beach, tumble this punchy salad together nightly.

Ingredients

500 g prepared and skinned baby squid tubes
1 clove garlic, crushed
1

Asia
Myanmar (Burma)
Ngapali
Starter
Pescatarian
South East Asia
Gluten-free

Method

Boil the squid in water to cover for 2 minutes, then drain and leave to cool. In a large bowl, mix the garlic with the sugar, lime juice, zest and fish sauce until the sugar has dissolved, then toss through the cooked squid, tomatoes, shallots, chillies and salt. Cover and leave to sit for about 20 minutes or so, then pile on to a platter or plates and serve drenched with the toasted crushed pe

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