Prosperity salad

A Chinese New Year festive dish recipe. The salad starts off as separate components on a big platter, then people toss together for luck and prosperity. Whether you do it traditionally or not, you’ll enjoy the delicious combination of colours, flavours and texture.
Ingredients
- ½ pack Trident vermicelli rice noodles
- 1 cucumber julienned
- 1 small carrot julienned
- ½ red capsicum sliced in thin strips
- 2 cups iceberg lettuce finely shredded
- 3 radishes thinly sliced
- 3 spring onions thinly sliced
- 1 pomelo or grapefruit segmented
- ⅓ cup pickled ginger drained
- 8 wonton wrappers cut into 1cm strips
- Cooking oil for shallow frying the wonton wrappers
- 250 g fresh salmon-sashimi
Plum dressing
- ½ cup plum sauce
- 2 tbsp mama san soy sauce
- 2 tbsp mama san sushi vinegar
- 1 tbsp Kuki sesame oil
- ½ tsp Chinese five spice
To garnish
- ⅓ cup FreshLife peanuts lightly roasted and crushed
- 3 tbsp FreshLife sesame seeds lightly toasted
- 3 tbsp Gourmet Garden lightly dried coriander
- lime wedges
Instructions
- Heat about 5mm deep cooking oil in a small skillet. When the oil is hot, fry strips of wonton wrappers in small batches. Keep a close eye as they cook very quickly and can easily burn. Turn as they start to brown to cook the other side, then drain on a paper towel. Repeat with all the strips of wonton.
- Prepare the Trident vermicelli rice noodles as per the packet instructions.
- Plum dressing: Mix all ingredients for the dressing in a small jar.
- Place the Trident vermicelli rice noodles in the middle of a large serving platter. Arrange salad components around the noodles and top the salmon sashimi on the noodles.
- Gather everyone around the salad, then pour the plum dressing all over. Toss the salad together - the higher, the more luck for the new year!
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