This chopped vegetable salad is found all over Madagascar. It is served on its own, as an hors d’œuvre, or as an accompaniment to stews, designed to cut through the fatty food the Malagasy love. At the markets, stall-holders chop the ingredients with a mandoline, and it can be bought ready-made. malagasy mustard seeds are tiny, rather like poppy seeds, so do not need to be crushed. The ones you but in Britain do.
½ a white cabbage, shredded
6 carrots, grated
3 onions, halved and finely sliced
100 g (4 oz) French or runner beans, sliced
handful of fresh peanuts, crushed
salt
DRESSING
2 very small red chillies, chopped
25 g (1 oz) fresh root ginger, chopped
3 garlic cloves, crushed
100 ml (4 fl oz) groundnut oil
40 ml (1½ fl oz) white wine vinegar
1 teaspoon curry powder
1 teaspoon mustard seeds, crushed
½ teaspoon ground turmeric
First mix together all the ingredients for the dressing. Toss the vegetables in the dressing, sprinkle with the peanuts and season with salt to taste.
Serves 6 - 8
country : Madagascar
course : salad
source : Floyd on Africa / Keith Floyd