Life All Travel Destinations Entertaining Food All Chefs Recipes Restaurants Wine Pairing Food News Wine All Wine 101 Wine News Wine Regions Wine Varietals Wineries Home > Selector Magazine > Food > Thi Le's Raw Fish Salad Food Thi Le's Raw Fish Salad Preparation time 10 minutes Cooking time 30 minutes Serves 1 Stick with delicate wine styles with the raw fish and choose those that have elevated acidity, like Sparkling wines or dry whites like Riesling or Grüner Veltliner. Ingredients 120g sashimi fish, sliced 40g banana blossom, julienne 20g red onion, pickled 20g pineapple slices 30g green mango, julienne 30g papaya, julienne 30g broadbeans/rau mong 5–6 vine leaves/shiso leaves 5–6 elephant ear stem, sliced 10g crispy onion 20g snake beans, batons 2 rice and sesame crackers Tamarind & dessert lime dipping sauce 50g palm sugar, shaved 50g tamarind pulp 50g fish sauce 2 birds eye chillies 1 garlic clove 25g galangal 10g dessert limes Lime juice Recipe by Thi Le Photography by Kristoffer Paulsen Method 1. Dissolve palm sugar in a small pot with tamarind pulp – slowly bring to a simmer, then add fish sauce. Bring mix to a boil to emulsify. 2. Remove from heat, skim any scum and let cool down. 3. Using a mortar and pestle, pound chilli, garlic and galangal till smooth. 4. Add dessert limes to the mortar and roughly pound. 5. Add tamarind and adjust with lime juice. 6. Place raw fish in the middle of the plate and arrange fruit and vegetables around the fish. 7. Served with tamarind and rice crackers. Wine Match: Sparkling, Riesling or Grüner Veltliner Food Preparation Time 10 minutes Cooking Time 30 minutes Serves 1 WINE MATCH Pikes Traditionale Riesling 2023 $22.95 in any 12 $24.30 in any 6 $27.00 each Price | options $22.95 in any 12 bottles Qty Add to cart Sorby Adams Jellicoe Riesling 2021 $29.75 in any 12 $31.50 in any 6 $35.00 each Price | options $29.75 in any 12 bottles Qty Add to cart Peter Lehmann Wigan Riesling 2017 $42.50 in any 12 $45.00 in any 6 $50.00 each Price | options $42.50 in any 12 bottles Qty Add to cart Yves Premium Cuvée NV $20.40 in any 12 $21.60 in any 6 $24.00 each Price | options $20.40 in any 12 bottles Qty Add to cart Tahbilk Riesling 2023 $18.70 in any 12 $19.80 in any 6 $22.00 each Price | options $18.70 in any 12 bottles Qty Add to cart Sparkling White 6-pack Price $132.00 Save $27.00 Qty | case Add to cart Hope Estate Sparkling Pinot Chardonnay NV $17.00 in any 12 $18.00 in any 6 $20.00 each Price | options $17.00 in any 12 bottles Qty Add to cart Leconfield Syn Cuvée Blanc Sparkling NV $18.70 in any 12 $19.80 in any 6 $22.00 each Price | options $18.70 in any 12 bottles Qty Add to cart Hardys HRB Riesling 2023 $29.75 in any 12 $31.50 in any 6 $35.00 each Price | options $29.75 in any 12 bottles Qty Add to cart First Creek Limited Release Grüner Veltliner 2023 $0.00 in any 12 $0.00 in any 6 $30.00 each Price $30.00 Per bottle Qty Add to cart Visit our Wine Shop Discover more about Thi Le and her recipes Food Thi Le's Lobster Food Thi Le Steamed Pippies Food Chance Change and Opportunity with Thi Le Words by Natascha Mirosch on 21 Jan 2021