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Thai Spicy Mackerel Salad Recipe
Serves/Makes: 4 - 6
Ingredients:
- 5 large short-bodied mackerel
- 10-15 broken hot chilies
- 7 finely sliced shallots
- 1/2 cup shredded young ginger
- 5 finely slice lemon grass stems
- 2 table spoons finely sliced kaffir lime leaves
- 1 cup horapha* sweet basil leaves
- 2 tablespoons ground roasted peanuts
- 2-3 tablespoons lime juice
- 2 tablespoons fish sauce
- Fresh vegetables: Chinese cabbage, yard-long beans, cabbage, spring onions, coriander greens
How to cook:
- Fry the mackerel golden brown and remove the meat.
- Toss with the meat the lemon grass, ginger, shallot, chilies, kaffir lime leaf, sweet basil leaves, fish sauce, and lime juice.
- Just before serving, sprinkle with the ground peanut, and serve with the fresh vegetables.
Notes:
The Thai name for Spicy Mackerel Salad recipe is
Yam Pla Thu. This recipe is delicious, simple, and really easy to cook.
Comments:
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Horapha, kaphrao, maenglak are varieties of sweet basil.
Horapha seems to be the nearest to the sweet basil used in European tomato dishes and Italian pesto.
Horapha is used here as a vegetable and for flavouring.
This recipe for Thai Spicy Mackerel Salad serves/makes: 4 - 6
Main Ingredient: Mackerel
Preparation Method: Salads
Cuisine: Thai