The Rangoon Sisters' Tomato And Crunchy Peanut Salad (Khayan Jin Thee Thoke)
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Easy
This salad contrasts crunchy peanuts with vibrant fresh tomatoes. Use the best-quality tomatoes you can buy to get the most out of this dish. It is best made fresh on the day, and can be served as a side with one of our curries or just simply with some rice.
This recipe is extracted from The Rangoon Sisters: Authentic Burmese Home Cooking by Amy Chung and Emily Chung (£20, Ebury Press). Photography © Martin Poole
Ingredients for tomato and crunchy peanut salad Serves: 4
- 50g unsalted roasted peanuts
- 300g tomatoes, at room temperature, quartered
- ½ green finger chilli, deseeded (optional) and finely sliced
- 1 tbsp dried shrimps (optional)
- 1–2 raw shallots, peeled and thinly sliced
- 3–5 tbsp garlic oil
- Juice of ½ lime
- 2 tsp fish sauce (omit to make vegetarian, then season with salt)
- Small handful of coriander leaves
- 1 tsp gram flour, toasted
- Crispy fried shallots, to garnish
Method for tomato and crunchy peanut salad
- Crush the peanuts using a pestle and mortar or pulse a few times in a food processor (to the size of the nubs you get in a shop-bought crunchy peanut butter).
- Place the tomatoes, chilli, crushed peanuts and remaining ingredients in a large bowl and mix. Ideally, do this with clean hands to fully combine all the ingredients. Taste and adjust the seasoning, adding more fish sauce or chilli if necessary.
- Transfer to a serving dish and garnish with the crispy shallots.
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About the author
The Rangoon Sisters, aka Amy and Emily Chung, are home cooks and junior doctors who started their sell-out supper club in 2013. Their number 1 fan is Grace Dent – who said that their Mohinga (fish chowder) was ‘the nicest thing I put in my mouth in 2017’ and in January 2018 they were number 1 in the Observer Food Monthly’s ‘Best 50 Things in Food 2018’. They have featured in Esquire, Khoollect, The Observer and the Evening Standard. They now live 15 minutes away from each other and they rarely go a day without asking ‘What are you eating?’.
