Malaysian prosperity salad

Recipes / Salads

Toss this salad with chopsticks before your Chinese New Year meal – the higher the toss, the more prosperous your year will be!

Recipe «Malaysian prosperity salad» presented in category Recipes / Salads, to prepare this dish you will need no more 5 minutes. To make this dish at home by prescription from the author Gomer would need: 2 tbsp rice wine vinegar, 1 tsp caster sugar, 1/2 tsp salt, 2 cups finely shredded red cabbage, Peanut oil, for shallow-frying , 6 wonton wrappers, each cut into 4 triangles, 24 cooked tiger prawns, peeled , deveined, 150g daikon radish, cut into long matchsticks , 1 carrot, cut into long matchsticks, 1/3 cup thinly sliced pickled ginger, 2 Lebanese cucumbers, seeded, cut into long thin matchsticks, 1 cup fresh round mint, 1/4 cup plum sauce, 1 tbsp honey, 1 tbsp rice wine vinegar, 2 tbsp lemon juice.

Ingredients:

  • 2 tbsp rice wine vinegar 
  • 1 tsp caster sugar 
  • 1/2 tsp salt 
  • 2 cups finely shredded red cabbage 
  • Peanut oil, for shallow-frying 
  • 6 wonton wrappers, each cut into 4 triangles 
  • 24 cooked tiger prawns, peeled , deveined 
  • 150g daikon radish, cut into long matchsticks 
  • 1 carrot, cut into long matchsticks 
  • 1/3 cup thinly sliced pickled ginger 
  • 2 Lebanese cucumbers, seeded, cut into long thin matchsticks 
  • 1 cup fresh round mint 
  • 1/4 cup plum sauce 
  • 1 tbsp honey 
  • 1 tbsp rice wine vinegar 
  • 2 tbsp lemon juice 
  • 1 tbsp soy sauce 

Instructions

  1. Combine vinegar, sugar and salt in a medium bowl. Add cabbage. Toss to combine. Stand for 5 minutes or until cabbage brightens in colour and softens slightly. Drain.
  2. Meanwhile, heat oil in a large saucepan over medium-high heat. Shallow-fry wonton pieces, in batches, for 15 seconds each side or until golden and crisp. Drain on paper towel.
  3. Make honey plum dressing. Combine ingredients in a small jug.
  4. Arrange cabbage, fried wontons, prawns, radish, carrot, ginger, cucumber and mint on a large serving platter. Drizzle with dressing. Serve.