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RED MULLET WITH SWEET AND SOUR SHREDDED SALAD

RED MULLET WITH SWEET AND SOUR SHREDDED SALAD

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Serves: 2

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We are in rose-tinted heaven here: the pink glint of the red mullet's skin flashes like a Barbie-mermaid's tail against a salad of shredded pawpaw, red chilli pepper, carrot and spring onions, sprinkled pinkly with chopped, raw red-skinned peanuts.

If you can't get hold of green pawpaw, I wouldn't worry: most pawpaws are sold so unripe that you can slice them up as they are. Only when they are properly, juicily, coral are they unusable here.

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Ingredients

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  • 2 small red mullets (whole or filleted with skin left on)
  • 4 tablespoons Thai fish sauce (nam pla)
  • juice of 1 lime
  • 1 teaspoon caster sugar
  • 50 grams raw peanuts (in their red husks, chopped)
  • 1 green pawpaw (finely julienned)
  • 2 small carrots (peeled and finely julienned)
  • 2 spring onions (finely julienned)
  • 1 bunch fresh coriander (chopped)
  • 1 long red chilli (deseeded and finely julienned)
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Method

  1. Slash the fish if they are whole, or lay the fillets on some foil, and either barbecue, or cook the fish in a hot oven at 200°C/gas mark 6/400ºF for about 10 minutes. Remove to a serving plate.
  2. Combine all of the ingredients for the salad and scatter and pour it over the cooked fish if they are whole. If you are using fillets, spread a bed of dressing and lay the fillets on top.

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