Recipe: Thai Green Mango Salad

It is finally mango season and you must indulge in this deliciously tangy Thai Mango Salad before the raw, green mangoes vanish off the fruit carts. Addiction guaranteed!

Ingredients:

Green mangoes (peeled and shredded) 1 — 2

Water 3 tbsp

Sugar 2 tbsp

Fish sauce 1 tsp

Small onion (sliced) 1

Peanuts ½ cup

Chillies (grounded) ¼ tsp

Method 

•  Boil the water in a pot and add the sugar and fish sauce to it to make the syrup.

•  Allow the syrup to cook for 2 to 3 minutes and then take it off the heat, allowing it to cool for about a minute.

•  In a bowl, place the mango pieces and onion and pour the syrup on top.

•  Sprinkle the salad with the peanuts and chillies.

•  Refrigerate the salad for an hour before serving it so that all the flavours mix together. Your salad is now ready!

Madiha Hamid is a digital media professional. She runs a food blog for Pakistani and regional cuisines called cheflingtales.com.
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Published in The Express Tribune, Ms T, June 16^th, 2013.

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