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Herby prawn, grapefruit & Thai chilli salad

Herby prawn, grapefruit & Thai chilli salad

This recipe is inspired by one of Charmaine Katz's favourite Thai pomelo salads, yum som-o. Here, the sharper and easier-to-find grapefruit is used. It’s a perfect marriage of heat, salt, sweet and sour, with an abundance of fragrant herbs. Follow Charmaine Katz on Instagram

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Gluten free
  • Serves2
  • CourseMain meal
  • Prepare20 mins
  • Cook5 mins
  • Total time25 mins

Ingredients

  • 3 tbsp desiccated coconut
  • 3 tbsp roasted peanuts
  • 2 red grapefruits
  • 140g pack No.1 Cooked & Peeled Madagascan Tiger Prawns
  • 1 stalk/s lemongrass, outer leaf removed, quartered and finely sliced
  • ½ shallot, thinly sliced
  • 25g pack coriander
  • 25g pack mint
  • 20g pack Thai basil

For the dressing

  • 2 bird’s eye chillies (from a pack of mixed Thai chillies), deseeded if you prefer
  • 2 tbsp coconut sugar or palm sugar
  • 1 lime, juice
  • 2 tsp nam pla fish sauce

Method

  1. Make the dressing. In a pestle and mortar, pound the chilli and coconut sugar into a paste. Squeeze in the lime juice, add the fish sauce, then taste and adjust the seasoning as required (see below).

  2. In a frying pan over a medium heat, toast the coconut until golden, then set aside. In the same pan, toast the peanuts until golden, then set aside. Roughly chop once cool.

  3. With a serrated knife, slice off the top and bottom of the grapefruits, then follow the curve of the fruit, cutting from the top, to remove the skin and pith. Cut either side of the white lines to remove segments without the skin. Add the segments to a bowl.

  4. Add the prawns, lemongrass, shallot, coriander (stalks finely chopped, leaves roughly chopped), mint and basil leaves to the bowl. Add half the coconut and peanuts and the dressing, then mix well. Serve on a sharing plate piled high, finished with the remaining coconut and peanuts.

Cook’s tip

The dressing should be a little sweet, tart and fiery. Only you can judge this – dip a little grapefruit into it to check the seasoning before you dress the salad.

Nutritional

Typical values per serving when made using specific products in recipe

Energy

1,680kJ/ 401kcals

Fat

16.8g

Saturated Fat

6.9g

Carbohydrates

36g

Sugars

32.4g

Fibre

6.9g

Protein

23.1g

Salt

2.4g

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