Isaan-style Fruit Salad

== Description ==
Serves 2 quite generously. Delicious with freshly steamed jasmine rice — or sticky rice — to soak up the dressing.
== Ingredients ==
* 1 green mango, peeled and julienned
* 1 apple, sliced
* 1 crisp Asian pear, sliced
* a good handful of grapes, seeded if necessary
* 8 cherry tomatoes, halved if large
* big handful of long beans in 2-in segments
* big handful of roasted peanuts; dried shrimp
* big handful of Thai "globe" eggplants, quartered and soaked 1 hour in salt water, then rinsed (optional)
* 2 garlic cloves, unpeeled
* 6 tiny Thai chiles
* 3 tbsp fish sauce
* 1 tbsp palm or coconut sugar (substitute dark or light brown sugar — but moderate lime juice in this case)
* 3 limes, sliced vertically around the "core" into seedless quarters (alternately, juice them) 
== Directions ==
# In a mortar and pestle pound the garlic and chilies and then add sugar, fish sauce, and limes (if using juice, add a bit now and a bit as you go along, to avoid splashing the dressing into your face!).
# Pound again.
# Add long beans and pound only to bruise, not to mash; follow with mangoes and tomatoes.
# At this point use one hand to mix with a large spoon while pounding with the other.
# Add fruits, pound and mix.
# Taste for salt-sweet-sour-hot, and adjust seasonings as necessary.
# Place on a plate and sprinkle with peanuts and shrimp (alternately, pound a few of the shrimp and leave the rest for garnish).
Category:Bhutani Meat Dishes
Category:Bhutani Salads
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