Thai pork salad

Name: Thai pork salad
Prep time: 40 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 96 h 55 min
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 3 teaspoons light brown sugar; 3 tablespoons sesame oil; 30 g (1 oz) fresh coriander leaves; 2 green chillies, seeded and chopped; 90 g (3 oz) fresh coconut; 300 g (10 oz) pork fillet (tenderloin); 3 tablespoons soy sauce; 2 tender stalks lemon grass, finely chopped; juice of 3 limes; 250 g (8 oz) rice vermicelli, rice stick or cellophane noodles; 220 g (7 oz) mangetout; 225 g (7¼ oz) tin water chestnuts, sliced; 1 tablespoon vegetable oil; 1 tablespoon sesame seeds

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
97 hr

Appears in

Salads

By Le Cordon Bleu

Published 2001

About

This cold Thai salad is a whole meal by itself. The pork is marinated in coconut, chilli, lime juice, lemon grass and fresh coriander, quickly stir-fried, then tossed with rice noodles.

Ingredients

90 g (3 oz) fresh coconut
300 g (10

Method

Preheat the grill to hot. Pare four strips off the coconut using a potato peeler and grate the rest. Place the strips of coconut under the grill for 3 minutes, or until tinged brown along the edges, then set these aside.
Prepare the pork by trimming off any fat and sinew and cutting with a sharp knife into thin strips 6 cm (2½ inches) long. Reserve a few coriander