Seafood Salad (Yum Talay)

This is a great receipt that is pretty easy to make. The dish can be prepared ahead of time and you can let the seafood marinate in the dressing. You can use any type of seafood you like. I my version I used Shrimp and scallops. This is a very common disk and can be prepared in many variation I found this on Receipt from ThaifoodTonight.com

Ingredients for 4 people
10 cups of water

½ lb. big frozen Shelled Prawns (thawed)
½ lb. frozen calamari (thawed and already cut and cleaned)
½ lb. medium or big fresh or frozen scallop (thawed)
add ¼ medium red onion (sliced)
½ cup of mixed celantro leaves
2 stalks green onions (sliced)
¼ cup of mint leaves

Ingredients for Dressing
4 cloves garlic
2 red and green Thai chili peppers or 1-2 red and green Serrano peppers
3 tbsp cilantro roots (or cilantro stems if you can’t find them with roots)
2 teaspoons of salt
1 tbsp sugar
4 tbsp lime juice
2 tbsp white vinegar

Preparing the Dressing

Smash the garlic, peppers , and cilantro in a mortar and pestle (or use a cutting board and chop them into fine pieces)

Put the smashed paste in a bowl
Add salt, sugar, lime juice and vinegar and mix until the sugar and salt are dissolved

Preparation

Boil water in a pot over medium high heat
Boil Calamari and place in a large bowl
Boil Scallops and place in the bowl
Boil prawns and place in the bowl
Now add the dressing to the bowl and mix it in with the seafood
Add the red onions, celantro leave , mint and green onions and toss.
Garnish with a few left over mint leaves , a lime wedge and chili pepper
Receipt from ThaifoodTonight.com