Prosperity salad
- Main
- Medium
- 8
- 1 hour 15 minutes
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Get ready for Chinese New Year with this prosperity salad recipe from Michelin-starred chef at Hakkasan Tong Chee Hwee. It is believed the higher you toss the ingredients in the salad, the greater your fortunes will be, so get stuck in! Read more about the history of this dish here.
Ingredients
Prosperity salad
- 1 sweet potato
- 1/2 green apple
- 20g of pickled onion
- 1 carrot
- 1/2 cucumber
- 20g of pickled ginger
- 2 lime leaves
- 5g of black pak-pui mushrooms
- 1 mango
- 30g of mooli
- 1/4 pomelo
- 20g of dried jellyfish
- 20g of enoki mushrooms
- 1/2 roast chicken
Garnish
- 2 tsp black sesame seeds
- 2 tsp white sesame seeds
- 50g of plum sauce
- 1 handful of coriander
Method
1
To begin, peel the sweet potato into thin slices, then cut the slices vertically into a long julienne. Coarsely shred the apple, pickled onions, carrot, cucumber, pickled ginger, lime leaves, black pak-pui mushroom and mango and mooli, keeping each ingredient separate
- 1 sweet potato
- 30g of mooli
- 1/2 green apple
- 20g of pickled onion
- 1 carrot
- 1/2 cucumber
- 20g of pickled ginger
- 2 lime leaves
- 5g of black pak-pui mushrooms
- 1 mango
2
Peel the pomelo, remove each segment and chop the flesh into small pieces. Thinly slice the jellyfish
- 1/4 pomelo
- 20g of dried jellyfish
3
Add oil to a hot wok and place over a high heat. Once hot, deep-fry the shredded sweet potatoes until cooked and crispy, followed by the enoki mushrooms. Drain well on kitchen paper
- 20g of enoki mushrooms
4
Arrange all of the salad ingredients by colour (except the carrot, mooli, sweet potato, enoki mushrooms, lime leaves and chicken) in a ring-shaped pattern on a large serving plate, leaving space in the centre for the remaining ingredients
5
Toast the sesame seeds in a dry frying pan then place in a small side bowl
- 2 tsp white sesame seeds
- 2 tsp black sesame seeds
6
Debone the roasted chicken and slice into thick strips. Place the strips in the centre of the salad and add a mound of carrot, followed by mooli, deep-fried sweet potato and enoki mushrooms. Finish with some shredded lime leaves
- 1/2 roast chicken
7
Gather your friends and family around the salad, scatter over the toppings and drizzle over the sauce. Have everyone use their chopsticks to toss the salad as high as possible into the air
- 1 handful of coriander
- 50g of plum sauce
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