Avo Calamari Salad © Jenny Morris from Her Book More Rude F

a fresh easy to prepare salad of avocados and calamari with a deicius fresh lime dressing, makes a great starter or light lunch. wonderful fresh Asian flavours.

• Ready In: 23 mins
• Serves: 4-6

Ingredients

•  olive oil or   peanut oil, for shallow frying
• 500  g  baby calamari, tubes cleaned
• 2  tablespoons fish sauce
• 1  tablespoon brown sugar
• 2  garlic cloves, crushed
• 6  whole spring onions, sliced
• 1  red chili pepper, sliced
• 200  g fresh bean sprouts
• 2  large  firm avocados, peeled and cut into blocks
• 2  granny smith apples, skin on, cut into chunks
• 2  tablespoons  coriander, chopped
• 2  tablespoons mint, chopped
• 2  tablespoons basil, roughly torn
• 3⁄4 cup fresh lime juice
• 5  ml  sesame oil

Directions

1. Slit the calamari tubes open and make shallow cuts in a diamond.
2. pattern across the inside flesh.
3. In a glass bowl, mix the calamari, brown sugar and fish sauce.
4. Heat enough oil to cover the bottom of a heavy based frypan and very.
5. quickly fry the calamari in small batches and set aside about 3-4 minutes, the dressing will finish off the cooking.
6. Toss the calamari together with all the remaining ingredients except.
7. the avocado which you can lightly mix in at the end.