Galloping Horses (Thai Appetizer)
 
 
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Serves: 8 servings
Ingredients
  • 1 ts Oil
  • 1 lb Ground pork
  • 4 -to
  • 8 Garlic cloves finely chopped
  • 3 Green onions, white part chopped
  • ¾ c Roasted salted peanuts
  • 1 Fresh pineapple; -OR-
  • 5 -Tangerines, -OR-
  • 4 -Oranges
  • ⅓ c Sugar
  • ½ ts Pepper
  • Lettuce leaves
  • Mint or coriander leaves
  • Chopped chilis
Instructions
  1. Grind peanuts
  2. Heat oil in a frying pan, add pork, garlic and onions
  3. Cook until pink color disappears
  4. Drain off most of the fat
  5. Add sugar and pepper, cook 1-2 minutes
  6. Add peanuts, mix in well, then remove from heat
  7. Cool to room temperature
  8. Prepare platter, lining with lettuce leaves
  9. Peel and segment the citrus fruit if used, cutting each segment down to the back and fanning open to form a circle
  10. If using pineapple, cut off top leaves and outer skin, as thinly as possible, from top down
  11. Look at the "eye" pattern, as it forms a spiral down the pineapple
  12. Cut the spirals with a sharp knife held at about a 45 degree angle
  13. Cut off bottom
  14. Cut pineapple into about 5 or 6 wedges and then cut each of those into ¼ inch slices
  15. Arrange fruit on platter
  16. Mound meat mixture onto fruit, and decorate with other garnishes
  17. Serve at room temperature, or chilled
  18. (servings: 8-10)
Recipe by Rhonda Fearns at http://rhondafearns.me/galloping-horses-thai-appetizer/