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Come summer and all I want to eat for lunch is a good salad. Pineapple is one such fruit which is loaded with Vitamin C and tastes refreshing, fresh and is incredibly juicy and fruity. This Thai Pineapple salad is perfect for hot days and is an amazing mix of sweet, sour, spicy and has got great crunch. It's filling and at the same time packed with Vitamin C to build up immunity. Thai cuisine has got to be one of my favorite cuisines. It’s incredibly healthy, spicy, sour, super flavorful and uses tons of aromatics and herbs like lemongrass, galangal, kaffir lime leaves, basil, mint, coriander. Peanuts and peanut butter is also used extensively used in Thai cuisine to enhance the flavor and crunch factor.  Som Tam salad , Tom Kha ghai soup , Pad Thai and Thai noodle salad with peanut sauce are my personal favorites and so many people have tried the recipes of the same from blog and loved the dishes.  I make sure to incorporate lot of interesting salads in my everyday  di...

Meet my new favourite salad- Rainbow Thai rice noodle salad! It's saucy, crunchy, healthy, hearty and loaded with colourful vegetables. Star of this salad is zingy peanut dressing which is to die for. It has the perfect balance of sweet-sour-spicy which makes it quite flavourful. Not to forget that it has just the right amount of garlic and peanut butter which is not too overpowering. It is so yummy that you would want to use it in other recipes too. It can be used  to marinate and grill vegetables or in a quick noodle stir-fry. It can also be used to make coconut milk based curry which can be eaten with rice. Really! The dressing is that good! This salad starts with thinly slicing fresh vegetables and preparing the yummy peanut dressing. While that is happening, boil your rice noodle according to package instructions (they usually take 8-10 minutes in hot boiling water). Another important element of this vibrant and delicious salad is herbs and slightly r...