Thai watermelon salad
Summer salad recipe with thai style dressing
Servings: 3
Ingredients
- 2 cups watermelon cut into cubes
- ¼ cup carrot thinly cut
- ¼ cup cucumber thinly cut
- ¼ cup raw mango thinly cut
- 2 tbsp capsicum thinly cut
- 4 tbsp roasted peanuts
For the dressing
- 2 small onion shallots
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 tbsp jaggery or brown sugar
- 1 lemon you can use 1/2 tbsp tamarind extract
- 1 bird’s eye chili I used ¾ th of the chilli
- 1 tbsp soya sauce
- Salt as needed
Instructions
- Let’s make the dressing first.
- In a mixie jar add 2 small onion, 1 garlic clove, 1 tbsp jaggery or brown sugar, 1 brid’s eye chilli, lemon juice and salt.
- Pulse few times
- Add 1 tbsp soya sauce
- Mix well and keep aside.
- Alternatively you can use a mortar and pestle to crush this.
- In a bowl add 2 cups of cubed watermelon, thinly sliced carrots, cucumber, capsicum and sliced raw mango.
- Add the dressing now
- Mix well
- Garnish with 4 tbsp of roasted peanuts
- Thai Watermelon salad ready
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Notes
1. You can pound the dressing in mortar and pestle instead of pulsing in the mixie.
2. You can add fresh ripe mango instead of Watermelon.
3. Thai Watermelon salad is a perfect one for the party.