Best friend squid salad

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

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
Salad
Pescatarian
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