Thai Chicken Salad With Crispy Shallots And Garlic

• 1/2 cup thinly sliced shallots
• 1/2 cup thinly sliced garlic
• 1 lb grilled chicken or leftover pork, thinly sliced
• 1 cup coarsely shredded carrot
• cherry or grape tomatoes, halved
• 1 cup thilnly sliced red onion
• 1 cup fresh cilantro leaves
• 1/2 cup frersh mint leaves
• 2 heads butter lettucve
• 1 recipe Thai salad dressing:
• -1/2 cup fresh lime juice
• -21/2 T. fish sauce (Nam Pla)
• -31/2 T brown sugar or maple syrup
• -2 small dried thai chilies or thinly sliced serranos
• -1 large clove garlic, crushed
• Dry-reasted chopped peanuts for garnish.

1. Whisk dressing ingredients together in a small bowl.
2. In a small skillet, heat 1 cup of oil until hot but not smoking, and fry shallots until crisp and golden, 1-2 minutes. Drain on paper towels.
3. Fry garlic in 2 batches until crisp and golden about 1 minute.
4. Drain on paper towels.
5. In a loarge bowl, toss together pork or chicken, carrot, tomatoes, onion, cilantro and mint. Add 1/2 cup of dressing and toss.
6. Line a platter with lettuce and arrange meat mixture on top. Sprinkle with fried shallots and garlilc and garnish with peanuts. Serve remaining dressing on the side.
7. Serves 6

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