Layered "thai" Salad

Total Time: 4 hrs 40 mins Preparation Time: 40 mins Cook Time: 4 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 large pineapple, peeled and sliced into medium-thick rounds
• 4 skinless chicken breasts, coated with
• soy sauce, and grilled till just cooked
• 6 large spring onions, green and parts separated
• 1 large carrot, peeled and coarsely grated
• 2 large tomatoes, seeded but not peeled, sliced into thin rounds
• 1 bunch basil leaves, coarsely shredded
• 200 g snow peas, blanched and cooled
• 1 bunch fresh mint leaves, finely shredded
• 1/2 cup fresh pineapple juice
• 1/4 cup peanut oil
• 1 small lime, unpeeled, cut into eighths
• 1 tablespoon fish sauce
• 1 large garlic clove, roughly chopped
• 1 teaspoon hot sauce
• 2 -6 fresh red chilies, deseeded or not and roughly chopped (optional)
• 1/2 cup dry roasted peanuts, crushed into coarse crumbs in the mortar
• 1 head lettuce, soft-leaved

Recipe

• 1 cut the cores out of the pineapple slices and set aside. arrange the slices on the bottom of an attractive glass bowl.
• 2 slice the chicken breasts thinly and layer on top of the pineapple.
• 3 slice the parts of the spring onions into thin diagonal (chinese-style) slivers. sprinkle over the chicken. roughly chop the green parts and set aside.
• 4 sprinkle the carrot shreds over the onions.
• 5 layer the tomato slices over the carrots, and top them with the basil shreds.
• 6 cut the snow peas into 1-inch lengths, on the diagonal, and scatter them over the tomato and basil.
• 7 spread the mint shreds over the snow peas.
• 8 make the dressing:.
• 9 place all the dressing ingredients plus the pineapple cores and the green parts of the spring onions in the blender and puree to a sauce.
• 10 taste for sweet-sour-salt balance, adding palm sugar, rice vinegar or soy sauce if necessary.
• 11 pour over the layered salad, cover and refrigerate for at least four hours or up to eight hours.
• 12 to serve:.
• 13 crumble the peanuts on top of the salad.
• 14 serve a separate bowl of soft lettuce leaves for wrapping the salad.
• 15 the guests help themselves to lettuce leaves, pile some salad onto them, wrap them neatly and eat with their fingers.