FOUR ANGLED BEAN SALAD

I was surfing the Net looking for some salad recipes and came upon this one for Four Angled or Winged Beans.  It is from a blog titled "Hunger Hunger".  Since I am a great fan of salads, I decided to copy the recipe and try it out once my Four Angled Bean Plant or Kacang Botor start to produce.

Here is the recipe

Linda's Four-Winged Bean Salad
400 g 4 winged beans*
2 heap T dried shrimps, washed well
8 (to your liking) chili padis or hot chilies
1/2 heart of bunga kantan (a ginger flower)
juice from 2 large limes
1/2 to 1 T fish sauce
1/3 t salt
1/2 T fine sugar
2 T peanut brittle, pounded until fine

* instead of beans, Linda sometimes uses pakis (wild fern, fiddleheads) and the result is more than excellent. The pakis need to be blanched briefly in boiling water.

1. Wash the beans very well, drain & pat dry with a clean towel. Top and tail. Slice into very thin slices, as thin as you can. Cut the chilies up, cut the bunga kantan heart very finely.

2. Mix everything together except for the peanut brittle. Taste and season to your liking. Sprinkle the pounded peanut brittle on top.

Source: http://hungerhunger.blogspot.com/2008/12/linda-s-four-winged-bean-salad.html