Name: Watermelon salad
Total time: 20 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Thai
Ingredients: 3 tbsp palm sugar or soft brown sugar; 5 tbsp fish sauce; 2 cloves garlic, roughly chopped; 3 bird’s eye chilli; 1 1/2 lime, juiced; 500g watermelon, seeds removed and cut into chunks; 1 tbsp roasted peanuts, roughly chopped; a handful of leaves mint, shredded; a handful of leaves Thai basil, shredded

3 tbsp palm sugar or soft brown sugar
5 tbsp fish sauce
2 cloves garlic
roughly chopped
3 bird’s eye chilli
1 1/2 lime
juiced
500g watermelon
seeds removed and cut into chunks
1 tbsp roasted peanuts
roughly chopped
a handful of leaves mint
shredded
a handful of leaves Thai basil
shredded

Method

step 1
Mix the sugar into the fish sauce. In a mortar, pound the garlic with a pestle, then add the chillies and pound again, leaving the chillies bruised but intact. Add the lime juice and fish sauce and pound again. Tip into a bowl with the watermelon and toss everything together. Sprinkle with peanuts and the herbs to serve. Avoid eating the whole chillies unless you are a heat fanatic; they’ll be incredibly hot!