Pla Goong (Spicy Thai Shrimp Salad) Recipe

Pla Goong (Spicy Thai Shrimp Salad) Recipe

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This dish is somewhere between a shrimp salad and a ceviche – just-cooked shrimp dressed with a sour-savory-sweet mixture of lime, fish sauce, and sweet chile paste, then showered with herbs and...

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Ingredients

  • Salt (optional)
  • 3 ounces lime juice (from about 3 limes)
  • 3 tablespoons fish sauce
  • 1 1/2 tablespoons sugar
  • 2 tablespoons nam prik pao (Thai chile paste in oil)
  • 2 finely chopped Thai bird chiles, or to taste
  • 1 pound large shrimp (1 1/2 pounds if heads-on)
  • 2/3 cup very thinly sliced lemongrass (see note)
  • 1 large shallot, thinly sliced
  • 1/2 cup roughly chopped cilantro
  • 1/2 cup whole mint leaves
  • 6 makrut lime leaves, finely shredded
  • Jasmine rice, for serving

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