Asinan (vegetable salad)

Asinan
Vegetable salad
Serves 6 people

3 young cabbage leaves, shredded
100 g beansprouts, topped and tailed
3 cucumber, juliened
1 chinese radish, juliened
2 bunches salted swatow mustard
1 bunch small spring onion (lokiu) cleaned and the green part cut off
enough mild vinegar to soak the vegetables
krupuk
50 g fried peanuts

sauce
25 g small dried shrimp
2 red chilies
5 bird’s eye chillies
20 g fried peanuts
1 tbs vinegar
salt
200 g palm sugar or brown sugar
boiled in 375 ml water until syrupy and strained

-soak all the cleaned vegetables in the vinegar for two hours.
-Meanwhile, prepare the sauce: soak the dried shrimp briefly in hot water and drain
-Pound the shrimp, red chilies, bird’s eye chilies and peanuts to a paste. Add vinegar, salt and sugar syrup to the mixture. blend until smooth
-Drain the vegetable. pour the vinegar, salt and sugar syrup to the mixture. Blend until smooth
-Drain the vegetable. pour the sauce over the vegetable and let it sit for 30 minutes until the flavors has been absorbed

to serve
put the vegetables in a deep bowl
Scatter the fried peanut and the krupuk on top

Note
the best vinegar to use would be cider vinegar