Green Mango Salad with Meat

Name: Green Mango Salad with Meat
Yield: makes 4 servings
Ingredients: 2 green mangoes, peeled, pitted, and julienned or diced (see illustration on page 119); Salt to taste; 1/4 cup fresh lime juice; 3 tablespoons corn, grapeseed, or other neutral oil; 3 garlic cloves, sliced; 3 shallots, sliced; 2 small fresh chiles, preferably Thai, stemmed and minced, or 2 teaspoons hot red pepper flakes, or to taste; 1/4 pound ground beef or pork; 1 teaspoon black pepper; 1/4 cup nam pla; 1 tablespoon brown or palm sugar; 3 tablespoons dry-roasted peanuts, chopped; 3 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro leaves

December 14, 2011

Here’s a salad that combines the fresh tartness of green—unripe—mangoes with a little stir-fried meat. Unripe mangoes are more common than the ripe variety at most supermarkets, but if you can’t find them, substitute Granny Smith apples. Nam pla—Thai fish sauce—is described on page 500. Palm sugar is authentic but pretty indistinguishable from brown sugar.

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