Crab with Mango, lime and chilli

Ingredients:

• 2 tbsp fish sauce
• 2 tbsp lime juice
• 2 tsp of palm sugar
• 1 green bird’s eye chilli
• 1 red bird’s eye chilli
• 1 tsp of ground dried shrimp
• 300gm of fresh white crab meat
• 20gms of chopped mint leaves
• 20gms of chopped coriander leaves
• 4 small shallots – sliced in rings
• 1 green mango – halved, peeled and sliced
• Cherry tomatoes – for garnish
• 1 large green chilli – thinly sliced at an angle

(Serves 4)

This dish is fabulous! It has a ‘clean’ taste, typified by lots of Thai dishes. You may want to add another small chilli if you like your food spicy but don’t add too much as it will ‘kill’ the dish. I suggest that you mix all of the ingredients soon before you serve. If you want, you can prepare the mix and leave out the crab until the last minute.

So there you go – put the lime, fish sauce, sugar and chopped chillis into a bowl and allow to infuse – taste and adjust with sugar or lime (the proportions I have given should work perfectly, however!). Chop all the other ingredients and mix up (less the crab) in a large bowl. Make sure the shallot slices are separated into rings. When you are ready to server, mix the crab in bowl with the shallots etc and add the ‘sauce’. Mix well. Enjoy – I know you will!