Grilled Pineapple Salad Recipe
The addition of fresh crunchy cucumber, grilled sweet pineapple, and a spicy peanut sauce elevates this Asian salad to a new level of taste. It is so simple to make and perfectly refreshing. An excellent side dish for summer events, potlucks, and barbecues.
Grilled Pineapple Salad Recipe
This Grilled Pineapple Salad Recipe is a simple, healthy way to dress up grilled pineapple. It's also delicious as a side dish with grilled meat and fish.
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 pineapple
- 2 cucumbers
- 200 g cherry tomatoes
- ½ red onion
- 1 red chilli, long
- ½ cup coriander, roughly chopped
- ½ cup mint, roughly chopped
- ¼ cup rousted peanuts
- 3 tbsp peanut butter
- 2 tbsp soy souce
- 1 tbsp rice vinegar
- 1 tbsp brown sugar
- 1 lime juiced
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- ½ tsp chilli, finely chopped, to taste
Instructions
prepare the salad
- Peel pineapple with a large sharp knife
- Then make shallow diagonal cuts and cut out all the eyes.
- Cut the pineapple into quarter wedges and remove core from pineapple.
- Slice pineapple wedges into 1.5-2 cm slices.
- Grill pineapple slices for 30-45 secs until getting a good char.
- Peel cucumber and then cut into long strips lengthwise. Then slice on a diagonal 1 cm batons.
- Cut cherry tomatoes in half.
- Thinly slice red onion into half moons.
- Cut long red chillies in half and deseed. Then slice into thin strips.
- Wash coriander and mint leaves well and roughly chop.
make the dressing
- Mince one garlic clove.
- In a food processor, add peanut butter, rice vinegar, lime juice, soy sauce, brown sugar, minced garlic, chopped chilli and water and blitz until a smooth paste.
- Adjust consistency to your liking with more water.
- Finely chop chilli to yield ½ teaspoon.
assembly
- In a large mixing bowl, place grilled pineapple, cucumbers, tomatoes, red onion, red chillis, half the roasted peanuts, coriander and mint together.
- Toss salad together.
- Tumble salad onto a large serving platter.
- Scatter remaining toasted peanuts on the top.
- Drizzle spicy peanut dressing over the top and serve.
