Cucumber and bitter green salad with lime dressing

Name: Cucumber and bitter green salad with lime dressing
Cuisine: Thai
Ingredients: 1 red onion; 1 bunch fresh mint; 2 continental cucumbers; 1 teaspoon ground dried shrimp; 2 red chillies, seeded and chopped; 1 clove garlic; juice of 3 fresh limes; 60 g rocket, washed; 2 teaspoons fish sauce; 1 bunch fresh watercress; 1 bunch fresh coriander; 1 tablespoon stock syrup

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

My Food

By Cheong Liew and Elizabeth Ho

Published 1995

About

A Thai-style dressing with a Mediterranean-style salad makes this another cross-cultural experience that works surprisingly well. Ground shrimp is the basis for many Thai-style dishes, especially salads. You may find its aroma overpowering, but once combined with other ingredients it becomes quite subtle.

Ingredients

Cucumber and bitter green salad

2 continental cucumbers
1 red onion
1 bunch fresh mint

Asia
Thailand
Fish course
Gluten-free
Pescatarian
South East Asia

Method

Cucumber and bitter green salad

Peel cucumbers and cut into large, round slices. Cut the onion in half and again into thin slices. Wash and separate the bunches of mint, watercress and coriander into sprigs and combine with the rocket.

Dressing

Combine ingredients thoroughly.