Asam Laksa warm salad
Want a healthy tasty warm salad ? Then Asam Laksa is the way. Yes.....it is salad ...if you omit the noodles. Just replace it will oodles of julienne cucumber, red onions and mint leaves. Add pineapple chunks to enhance the taste. Using a commercial sauce makes this an easy cooked warm meal.
If you cant find a commercial Asam Laksa sauce in your area, any asam based sauce is good. Asam fish sauce is the closest. Be sure to include the dried tamarind if using the asam fish package.
Ingredients
1 package Asam Laksa ready made sauce
1 can tomato sardine - mashed
2-3 pcs of dried tamarind - soak in warm water for 5 mins (adding tamarind is optional)
2-3 red chilli - optional
3- 4 Japanese cucumber - julienne
2 red onion
100 g of mint leaves
1 can pineapple - drained and cut into smaller pieces
Optional
laksa noodles or
kway teow noodles or
rice noodles
a) Prepare the sauce according to the package instructions. Add the mashed sardine, tamarind and chili
b) Bring the gravy to boil, then turn down the heat and let it simmer for another 15mins.
c) Place the cucumber (1/3 of bowl), onion in a serving bowl, ladle enough gravy to cover the cucumber. Serve with pineapple and lots of mint leaves
Optional:
For a more substantial meal, noodles can be used as the base instead of cucumber.
Blanch the noodles before serving.
Several brands of asam laksa ready made sauce that i have used:
