Thai seafood salad

Fresh, zesty and overflowing with flavour, this Thai seafood salad is a breeze to prepare and is bound to impress on Christmas Day. Prepare the marinade ahead of time, then it’s just a case of throwing the seafood on the barbie, a quick toss and lunch is served!

Ingredients

  • 1kg green prawns

    peeled, deveined, tails intact

  • 1 squid

    cleaned, finely sliced

  • 400g firm fish fillets

  • 1 cherry tomato

  • 1 Lebanese cucumber

  • coriander

    for topping

  • mint

    for topping

  • lime

    cut into wedges, for topping

  • 1 tsp coriander

    for dressing, washed, roughly chopped

  • 1/2 mint

    for dressing, roughly chopped

  • 1 long red chilli

    for dressing, seeds removed, roughly chopped

  • 4 clove garlic

    for dressing, crushed

  • 2 tbsp soy sauce

    for dressing

  • 2 tbsp lime juice

    for dressing

  • 1 tbsp fish sauce

    for dressing

  • 1 brown sugar

    for dressing

Allergy Advice

Contains Fish

Contains Gluten

Contains Shellfish

Contains Soy

Equipment

  • 1 food processor
  • 1 barbecue or grill plate
  • 1 bowl
  • 1 large spoon
  • 1 serving plate

Instructions

  1. Make dressing by blitzing all dressing ingredients (coriander, mint, chilli, garlic, soy sauce, lime juice, fish sauce, brown sugar) in a food processor.
  2. Heat a barbecue or grill plate over high heat. Toss seafood in a little oil.
  3. Cook calamari for a couple of minutes until just cooked through. Remove to a bowl.
  4. Cook prawns for 1-2 minutes each side. Add to bowl with calamari.
  5. Cook fish for 3-4 minutes each side, depending on thickness, until just cooked. Allow to cool slightly then flake carefully into chunks.
  6. Carefully fold dressing through the cooked seafood using a large spoon.
  7. Halve cherry tomatoes and dice cucumber. Add to the seafood and fold through.
  8. Spoon salad out onto a serving plate and garnish with extra herbs, sliced chilli and lime wedges.

Notes

Tip
Choose a firm white fish, e.g. Blue-eye Trevalla.
Variation
Choose seafood according to your taste. Mussels, scallops and even lobster would be great.
Variation
Feeding a crowd? Buy extra seafood and simply double the quantities in the dressing.
Variation
The long red chilli makes this mildly spiced. If you like your Thai salads hot, add a couple of bird’s eye chillis instead.

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