Oriental Seafood Salad

Photo: flickr user gurms

Ingredients

30 ml sesame oil

1/2 small onion peeled and finely chopped

25 mm piece of fresh root ginger peeled and crushed

10 ml soy sauce

30 ml mayonnaise

1 salt and freshly ground pepper

225 grams peeled prawns

225 grams white crab meat flaked

1 red pepper cored seeded and diced

4 inch piece of cucumber diced

50 grams fresh beansprouts

1 few chinese leaves (substitute lettuce leaves i

1 juice of one lime

slices of lime

8 tiger prawns unpeeled

Preparation

In a wok on the boiling platequickly heat the oil and add the onion and ginger.

Fry until soft and then remove from the heat and transfer the contents to a large mixing bowl.

Leave to cool.

Once cooled stir in the soy sauce and mayonnaise.

Add a little salt and pepper to taste but remember that soy sauce itself is fairly salty.

Gently fold the prawns and the crab meat into the mayonnaise mixture.

Then add the diced pepper cucumber and beansprouts.

Line four serving dishes (preferably glass) with the shredded chinese leaves. Divide the mixture between the four dishes and stack the mixture in the centre.

Squeeze a little lime juice over each serving and garnish each dish with two unpeeled tiger prawns and slices of lime.

The chinese say that there are seven items essential to a wellrun household: oil soy sauce vinegar rice salt tea and fuel for the fire (which is music to your cookers ears). chinese gourmet cooks expand the list to include much of the rest of this recipes ingredients including the onion ginger root and wine.

Serves 4