Crunchy Asian cabbage & prawn salad

Vietnamese recipe for 4 - 6 people, takes only 20 mins; recipe has chinese cabbage, cabbage, celery, carrot, mint, coriander, prawn, peanut, red chilli, garlic clove, caster sugar, rice vinegar, lime juice and fish sauce.

Crunchy Asian cabbage & prawn salad

Crunchy Asian cabbage & prawn salad

Recipe by Chef Soomro Course: Vietnamese
Servings

4 - 6

servings
Prep time

20 mins

Ingredients

  • Coriander: small handful coriander, chopped
  • Garlic Clove: 1 garlic clove, crushed
  • Red Chilli: 1-2 small red chillies, sliced
  • Carrot: 2 carrots
  • Lime Juice: 3 tbsp lime juice
  • Mint: small handful mint, chopped
  • Caster Sugar: 2 tbsp caster sugar
  • Celery: 2 celery sticks
  • Prawn: 200g cooked large peeled prawn
  • Fish Sauce: 3 tbsp fish sauce
  • Rice Vinegar: 2 tbsp rice vinegar
  • Peanut: 4 tbsp roasted peanut, chopped
  • Cabbage: 175g/60z white cabbage
  • Chinese Cabbage: 250g/9oz Chinese cabbage

Directions

  1. Shred the cabbages, celery and carrot finely on a mandolin or grate them on the largest holes on a grater. Add the mint and coriander to the vegetables along with the prawns. Toss everything together.
  2. Make the dressing by whisking all the ingredients together. Dress the salad and tip it into a bowl, sprinkle over the peanuts and serve straight away.