Burmese Pennyworth salad
Ingredients
for 2 persons:
2 bunches of Pennyworth
5 tsp roasted unsalted peanuts
2 tsp dried shrimp
2 small (red) onions
1-2 cloves of garlic
1/2 teaspoon of turmeric
seasoning powder
vegetable oil (palm, soy or sunflower)
a unusual very healthy salad
no dressing
vegetarians can leave the shrimp out
Method
Wash the pennyworth very well and remove the roots. You can use the stems or only the leaves. Cut them them into thin slices.
Wash the dried shrimp and pound them together with the peanuts until they are nearly a powder with a dew small pieces in it.
Cut the onions and the garlic and fry them in oil with the turmeric until they are crispy.
Put the pennyworth in a bowl or on a plate and add a powdered seasing (or soy sauce) and mix it with the hands. Add the pounded peanuts and shrimps and the fried onions and garlic. Don't mix.
Serve as a starter or snack or as part of a Burmese meal with rice.