ញាំត្រីសាលម៉ុន Salmon salad my style
Hello all LGs,
I hope you are all well. The new weekend is at the corner. Do you have any plan for it?
Today, before the weekend I would like to introduce a very nice dish which was actually my creativity. This dish is called Salmon Salad. It was inspired by the local restaurant I had worked for a year in New Zealand. It was good that salmon is NZ is fresh and a lot cheaper than that in Cambodia.
However, working in a restaurant as a helper I saw they use salmon a lot either in a soup or salad. I came back home and tried making it into salad. It came out, my adjustment was very good and my flat mate really loved it back then. It became our meeting dinner every week. Not any meeting would miss this dish 
They would buy everything for me to do it.
Salad or Nhoim in Khmer (ញាំ) is not new but using salmon is not common in Cambodia. We often use freshwater fish or seafood in the any dish. Meat that are commonly used in our kitchen are chicken, beef and pork. Fish salad is rare! Oh, I ate salmon the first time in my life while I was in NZ only. To be honest, the smell is not very pleasant but I could get rid of them, read below how to do it to know the trick..
Ingredients:
- Meat: salmon fish, 0.5kg (depends on people) [fresh or frozen], shrimp [optional], pig skin [optional]
- Sauce: Normal mixed fish sauce and Koh Kong sauce [the sauce is very good to get rid of the smell, make great flavor]
- Spice: Lemon/lime, chili, garlic, shallot, peanut [optional], sugar
- Vegetables: lettuce, tomato, cucumber, basil, spring onion, baby spinach, carrot, cabbage,
How to prepare it:
- Meat: salmon fish: clean and slice them very thin, keep in a bowl. Shrimp boil in fresh milk for 2-3mns, peel them and keep aside. Pig skin, boil for 15mns, take out from the pot and cut in very thin piece, keep aside.
- Sauce: Normal mixed fish sauce: mix fish sauce with shred garlic and shallot, adding cut chili into it. Add sugar and lemon as per the taste you like. Koh Kong sauce can find how to do it here in very details of my previous article. The sauce is very good to get rid of the smell, make great flavor and make salmon very pleasant to eat. Mixed fish sauce or Koh Kong sauce
- Spice: lemon, cut and pressure for the sauce. Chili, cut into small piece. Garlic, shred them and keep aside.
- Vegetables: lettuce, tomato, cucumber, basil, spring onion, baby spinach, carrot, cabbage: clean them all and cut. Carrot and cucumber must be shred in small pieces. Tomato slice them for decoration. Lime can be sliced for decoration too.
How to actually mix a salad:
- Step 1: Salmon: salmon must be soaked in the Koh Kong sauce for 10-15mns [the sour, hot and sweet taste of Koh Kong sauce helps get ride the smell].
- Step 2: Mix salad: in a big pot or bowl, put shred carrot, cucumber, and other herbs inside. Pick salmon from the soaking sauce and put in this bowl. Pour mixed fish sauce into the bowl. Add boiled pig skin into it as well (if you eat it). Stir it for a bit, taste it and add mixed sauce more to fit your taste.
- Step 3: Prepare a place: arrange lettuce/ tomato as decoration in a big salad bowl as the first layer. Arrange boiled shrimp on top of that. Then pick the mixed salad from the bowl to put on the decoration plate. You are ready to go here!
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