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For my birthday, my husband ordered me a digital subscription on my iPad to my favorite magazine, House & Home! I found this delicious recipe for a Thai salad in their May 2011 Issue. (PS: if you aren't familiar with this magazine, you wont regret getting acquainted. LOVE!)
This is the original recipe...
It calls for some ingredients I didn't have on hand so I started tweaking it. Generally, I don't care for beets, though I would have tried it in this salad, I didn't have it on hand so I left it out. For the dressing, we had used all our fresh ginger to make our Hawaiian Ginger Coolers so I substituted powdered ginger. I couldn't find Samal Oelek South Asian Chili Sauce so I substituted Sweet Chili Sauce. Since the recipe called for organic sugar I figured the sweetness of my chili sauce would be fine and I could omit the sugar from my recipe. I also didn't have Tamari sauce so I used the soy sauce I had in my refrigerator since it is a type of soy sauce anyway. Go figure the grocery store in my small town doesn't carry sunflower oil so I added a bit more sesame oil and omitted the sunflower oil. And finally, I didn't have coconut milk so I added a splash of soy milk with a couple teaspoons of my dried coconut flakes.
Here is my tweaked-up recipe...
Oh goodness this salad was tasty! My recipe serve 4 large portions so we had leftovers for the next night. I served the leftovers with a Kashi Grilled Veggie Pizza and it was so yummy!
If you are looking for more summer salad inspiration, here's a recipe I shared last summer for my Greek Salad.
ENJOY!
