Table for TwoChicken Laap
Laos' national dish: warm minced chicken tossed with lime, fish sauce, toasted rice powder and lots of fresh herbs.
Photo: Alexandra Tran / Unsplash
⏱ 30 min📶 Easy👫 Serves 2☪ Muslim-friendly
Ingredients (for 2)
- Minced chicken, 400 g
- Uncooked sticky or jasmine rice, 2 tbsp (for toasted rice powder)
- Shallots, 3, thinly sliced
- Lime, 2
- Fish sauce, 2 tbsp
- Chili flakes, 1 tsp
- Fresh mint, coriander & spring onion, a big handful
- Cabbage, lettuce & cucumber, to serve
- Sticky rice, to serve
Steps
- Toast the raw rice in a dry pan until deep golden, then grind into a coarse powder.
- Cook the chicken in a pan with a splash of water, breaking it up, until just cooked through.
- Take off the heat and stir in the shallots, lime juice, fish sauce and chili flakes.
- Fold in the herbs and toasted rice powder.
- Serve with cabbage wedges, lettuce, cucumber and sticky rice.
Cook it together: One toasts and grinds the rice (the smell is amazing), the other cooks the chicken and tears the herbs.
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