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Prawn and pomelo salad recipe
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Prawn and pomelo salad recipe

13 ingredients 25 min + 5 min 4 people openrecipes

A fragrant sweet, hot, salty and sour Vietnamese salad, using the sharp 'pomelo' citrus fruit, fresh herbs, peanuts, chilli, lime and ginger for flavour.

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

391
Calories
34g
Protein
15g
Fat
36g
Carbs

Counts 12 of 15 ingredients — the other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 12 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Peanut 1 oz (28g) 161
Shrimp 100g cooked 99
Sugar 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated 49
Carrot 1 medium (61g) 25
Cucumber 1/2 cup sliced (52g) 16
Lime juice of 1 lime (44ml) 11
Soy Sauce 1 tbsp (15ml) 9
Clove 1 tsp ground (2g) 7
Shallot 1 tbsp minced (10g) 7
Garlic 1 clove (3g) 4
Ginger 1 tsp grated fresh (2g) 2
Basil 5 leaves fresh (2.5g) 1
Pomelo not in our table 0
Peppermint not in our table 0
Coriander not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 1 Birdseye Chilli
  • 2 limes
  • 1 small piece of ginger
  • 2 cloves of garlic
  • 1.5 sugar
  • tbsp fish sauce
  • 1 pomelos
  • tbsp cucumber
  • 2 carrot
  • 0.5 shallot
  • 1 toasted peanuts
  • 1 pack shelled Tiger Prawns
  • 2 bunch each of mint, coriander and Thai basil

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By lovefood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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