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Free Healthy Recipe - Vietnamese Banana Flower Salad

Dairy free, Low carbohydrate

Copyright John Paul Urizar
www.johnpaulurizar.com.au

No apologies for the hard to find ingredients in this recipe. If you live in the city, you should be able to find them in Chinatown or a Vietnamese district. I'm all for making an adventure when it comes to cooking, and if it takes you away from your comfortable shopping space to explore new places all the better. That in itself is good for the soul!

Ingredients
1 lemon juiced
1 fresh banana flower (approx 600 grams)
2 cups bean sprouts
100 grams cooked prawns, chopped
½ sour mango grated
½ cup Thai basil, roughly chopped
½ cup Vietnamese mint, roughly chopped
½ bunch coriander, roughly chopped
50 grams peanuts, roasted
1 large chilli, finely chopped
½ tbsp fish sauce
½ tbsp maple syrup
1 lime juiced
Method

Fill a bowl with water and lemon juice. Remove the dark red leaves from the banana flour and slice the remaining leaves thinly down until you reach a point just above the the long filament seeds encased within the flower. Place the sliced leaves in the lemon water for around 30 minutes.

In a large bowl combine the sprouts, prawns, mango, herbs, peanuts, sesame and chilli together. Drain and rinse the banana flower thoroughly before adding it to the other ingredients. Combine the fish sauce, maple syrup and lime juice and stir through the salad.

Note: Sour mango is available from Asian stores. If you can't find it use an unripe mango.

Makes 4 servings

Scale recipe to serves

Prep Time: 40 mins
Cooking Time: nil
Ready in: 40 mins


Suitable for:
Dinner
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Nutritional Information - Per Serve
Kj 754 kj
Calories 180 kcal
Fat 8.5 g
Saturated Fat 1.2 g
Total Carbohydrate 9.8 g
Total Protein 12.8 g
Fibre 6.6 g