Homemade Mango Kerabu

Taste 'yat lao ah'!!!

Ingredients
• 1 unripe green mango, cleaned and with skin on
• 1 cucumber, cleaned and with skin on
• 25g dried anchovies (ikan bilis)
• 1 tbsp dried prawns, soaked and coarsely pounded
• A handful raw peanuts
• 100g shallots, sliced (small onion) - din put bcoz I dun like to eat shallots
• 5 bird’s eye chillies, sliced (cili padi) - din put bcoz dun want it to be spicy

Salad dressing
• 2 tbsp lime juice
• 1 tbsp fish sauce - a precious condiment bought from Bangkok
• 1 tbsp sesame oil
• 1 tbsp sugar

Method
1. Fry anchovies until fragrant and crispy. Dish out and set aside. Heat wok until hot, then put in raw peanuts and salt. Lower the heat and stir-fry constantly for 10–15 minutes with a quick to-and-fro motion.

2. Fry until peanut skin begins to blister and turn brown. Before dishing up, test a peanut by tasting it. Remove and allow to cool before removing the skin.

3. Shred mango and cucumber with a shredder and combine shallots , chillies and dried prawns in a salad bowl. Mix dressing ingredients together and add into the mango mixture. Toss well to combine. Just before serving, stir in peanuts and anchovies.

味露 Thai Fish Sauce