Instructions: In a mortar and pestle pound the garlic and chilli to a puree with a little salt.

Add the muscovado (or palm) sugar and the peanuts and continue pounding mixing in the juice of two limes as you go.

If the mortar gets too fill do it in batches. Dont grind all the peanuts to fine granules some should remain roughly crushed. Sweeten the juice of the remaining lime with the caster sugar and toss the shredded mangoes in it.

Add the herbs and some lime segments if you like and serve with the chilli peanut butter.

Classic Indonesian gado gado is a salad of blanched shredded vegetables cucumber and hardboiled eggs with a sweet hot peanut sauce.Unripe (green) papaya and mango are common in Asian salads theyre best when finely added and tenderised with heavily ie juiced dressings. If you cant get them use very firm mangoes instead.

Serves 6 as a first course

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