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Asian style salad with carrots, mango, mint and peanut dressing
Time
15 minutes
Servings
4
Who knew that peanut butter could be an ingredient for a dressing? Peanut dressing is creamy and brings your Asian style salad to a next level. This tangy dressing pairs great with sweet mango and carrots and tender lettuce leaves.
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Ingredients
- 1 head of butter lettuce (Salanova)
- 3 carrots
- 2 spring onions
- 1 mango
- 1 sweet pointed pepper (Sweet Palermo)
- 1 tbsp of peanuts
- 2 tbsp of mint and cilantro
Dressing ingredients
- 3 tbsp of peanut butter
- 2 tbsp of lime juice
- 1 tsp of honey
- 1 tbsp of rice vinegar
- 1 tbsp of soy sauce
- 1 tsp of grated ginger
- 1 tbsp of water
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Preparation
- Wash the lettuce first. Fill a large bowl with cool water. Soak lettuce in the water for a couple of minutes, let the dirt settle to the bottom.
- Separate the leaves that you need and let drain in a colander.
- Prepare the dressing. Combine all dressing ingredients in a blender and process until smooth and creamy.
- Peel carrots and mango and cut them into thin sticks.
- Slice the spring onion and cut red capsicum in sticks.
- Pour peanuts into a food processor. Hold down the pulse button for a few seconds to crush the peanuts.
- Chop fresh herbs, mint and cilantro.
- Pour all vegetables in a salad bowl, sprinkle with crushed peanuts and chopped herbs and drizzle the peanut dressing on top.
- Serve direct.
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