Thai squid salad

Yield: 6 Servings

Ingredients:

• 1 3/4 lb Squid

• 1 Lime juice of

• 2 tb Fish sauce

• 1 Red chili chop fine

• 1 lg Garlic clove crush

• 1 Gingerroot

• 1"piece grate

• 2 Lemon grass stalk slice thin

• 6 Scallion slice thin

• 2 tb Cilantro chop coarse

• 10 Mint leaves chop coarse

• 7 oz Salad greens

Instructions:

Chili rings Clean squid & rinse throughly. Slit open body pouch & score inside surface in criss cross pattern. Cut into 2x1/2" pieces. Bring saucepan of water to boil. Add squid & simmer 1min til opaque. Drain. Mix w/lime juice fish sauce chili garlic gingerroot lemon grass & scallion. Cover & marinate 1Hr or longer if refrigerated. Just before serving stir in cilantro & mint. Arrange greens on plate top w/squid garnish w/chili rings & serve. Source: Book of First Courses pp102