Seafood Salad with Avocado

Name: Seafood Salad with Avocado
Yield: for 2 as a one-dish light meal, or 4 as a starter
Cuisine: Asia
Ingredients: ½ tsp salt; 1 tsp sugar; 3 tbsp fresh lemon juice; a good selection of salad leaves, enough for 2 or 4 people; a pinch of salt; juice of 1 lemon; 1 tsp mirin (Japanese rice wine); 1 large ripe avocado; 2 tbsp chopped coriander leaves; 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped; ¼ tsp cayenne pepper; 225 ml/ 8 fl oz thick coconut milk; 225 g/8 oz baby squid, cleaned and halved; 1–2 ripe avocados (½ avocado per portion); 1 tsp soy sauce; 2 tbsp lemon juice; 1 tsp salt; 225 g/8 oz halibut steaks; 8–12 large uncooked king prawns, shells removed

Preparation info

for
2
as a one-dish light meal

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

New Wave Asian

By Sri Owen

Published 2002

About

Since we all travel sucha lot now, and food travels faster than any of us, it is not surprising to find Mexican guacamole in Southeast Asia, and a lot of Asians who now realize that avocado is good in savoury dishes too.

Ingredients

225 ml/ 8 fl oz thick coconut milk
2 tbsp lemon juice

Asia
Starter
Pescatarian
Southeast Asia

Method

Put the coconut milk, lemon juice and salt in a shallow saucepan. Heat this until just boiling. Add the fish, prawns and squid, and poach them for 2 minutes. Turn off the heat, cover the pan and allow the seafood to cook for 2 more minutes. Drain in a colander and leave to get cold.

Make the dressing: mix all the ingredients except the avocado in a glass bowl. Peel the avocado, remove t