Name: Sweet and sour watermelon salad with pink grapefruit and prawns
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 2 coriander roots, scrubbed; 2 garlic cloves, coarsely chopped; 60 ml (¼ cup) each fish sauce and lime juice; 2 tbsp sweet chilli sauce; 1 tbsp peanut oil; 450 gm medium uncooked prawns, peeled with tails intact, deveined; 1 mini watermelon, roughly spooned out into bite-sized pieces; 1 pink grapefruit, segmented and broken into smaller pieces; 50 gm roasted unsalted cashew nuts, coarsely chopped; 2 large handfuls each of torn mint and coriander; 2 red shallots, thinly sliced; 3 makrut lime leaves, julienned; 80 gm fried shallots (optional), to serve

Sweet and sour watermelon salad with pink grapefruit and prawns

Australian Gourmet Traveller fast recipe for sweet and sour watermelon salad with pink grapefruit and prawns.

Serves 4

Prep

15M

Cook

10M

Total

25M

Ingredients

2 coriander roots, scrubbed

2 garlic cloves, coarsely chopped

60 ml (¼ cup) each fish sauce and lime juice

2 tbsp sweet chilli sauce

1 tbsp peanut oil

450 gm medium uncooked prawns, peeled with tails intact, deveined

1 mini watermelon, roughly spooned out into bite-sized pieces

1 pink grapefruit, segmented and broken into smaller pieces

50 gm roasted unsalted cashew nuts, coarsely chopped

2 large handfuls each of torn mint and coriander

2 red shallots, thinly sliced

3 makrut lime leaves, julienned

80 gm fried shallots (optional), to serve

Method

Main

1.Pound coriander roots, garlic and a pinch of sea salt to a fine paste with a mortar and pestle. Add fish sauce, lime juice and sweet chilli sauce, stir to combine and set aside.

2.Heat oil in a large frying pan over high heat and cook prawns in batches, stirring, until just cooked and golden-brown (2-3 minutes). Transfer to a plate.

3.Toss watermelon, grapefruit, cashew nuts, herbs, shallots and lime leaves in a bowl, add prawns, toss to just combine and serve scattered with fried shallots.

Styling by Lisa Featherby

Styling by Lucy Tweed