Thai Rice Salad

Ingredients

• 3 cups rice cooked
• 1 asian pear cored and diced
• 2 ounces baby shrimp chopped
• 1 avocado peeled, stoned and diced
• 1/2 Cucumber finely diced
• 2 stalks lemon grass finely chopped
• 2 tablespoons sweet chili sauce
• 1 green or red chili seeded and finely sliced
• 1 cup sliced almonds toasted
• small bunch Fresh Cilantro chopped
• thai sweet basil for garnish
• 1 1/4 cup water
• 2 teaspoons shrimp paste
• 1 tablespoon palm sugar or light muscovado sugar
• 2 leaves kaffir lime leaves
• 1/2 stalk lemon grass sliced