Filipino Salad

Total Time: 20 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 lb pea shoots
• 1 tablespoon young ginger root, grated
• 2 tablespoons fish sauce
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 cup onion, thinly sliced
• 2 large tomatoes, cut into wedges

Recipe

• 1 blanch one pound of pea shoots in boiling water for about a minute, then drain and plunge shoots into ice bath; drain. squash, chayote, fern shoots, watercress, swamp cabbage, spinach, marunguray, katuday, or sweet potato leaves(only the edible kind), can be substituted.
• 2 cut shoots into 1 inch pieces and place them in a large serving bowl. add the remaining ingredients and toss to combine.
• 3 calamandin limes (bartender limes) are traditionally squeezed over the salad at the end.