Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, thai minced pork salad (larb moo ลาบหมู). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Thai larb made with minced pork (larb moo ลาบหมู) is one of the most popular Thai streets foods in Isaan cuisine. It's a wonderful combination of minced pork, lime juice, chili flakes, fish sauce, and herbs to give it a refreshing touch. One Thai food group that is often overlooked by westerners is salad.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have thai minced pork salad (larb moo ลาบหมู) using 16 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Thai minced pork salad (larb moo ลาบหมู):
- Prepare 500 g mince pork
- Take 1 tablespoons vegetable oil (or any oil for cooking the mince pork)
- Get 1 large red onion, thinly sliced
- Prepare 10 red or mixed colour plum tomatoes, cut in half
- Prepare 1/4 cup mint leaves, roughly chopped
- Prepare Half a cucumber, peeled and thinly sliced, (optional)
- Make ready 1-2 tablespoons toasted rice or white sesame seeds, (not toasted) for garnish
- Make ready For the sauce:
- Make ready 7-8 fresh chillis, thinly sliced
- Prepare 2 tablespoons Thai fish sauce (Nam Pla)
- Make ready Juice of 1 lemon or lime (depending on preference)
- Take 1 tablespoon palm sugar (add more or less depending on preference)
- Take 1/3 cup water (room temperature)
- Take For serving:
- Make ready 2 baby gem lettuce (each leaf separated)
- Take 3-4 slices lime or lemon wedges (for serving)
It's a traditional Thai dish from northern Thailand, that I will cook. Lap Mu (Ground Pork Salad) ลาบหมู. Some adjustments made by Samart Srijumnong. The picture to the left is Laab Moo at a the Lek restaurant in Koh Samui, Thailand.
Instructions to make Thai minced pork salad (larb moo ลาบหมู):
- Peel the red onion and finely slice. Cut the tomatoes in half. Peel the cucumber (optional), cut them in half and then into quarters. Then thinly slice the cucumber longways. Place all of the chopped ingredients in a large mixing bowl, cover with cling film and set aside.
- On a medium heat, add the oil to the wok and wait for it to heat up. Add the ground mince pork and fry for a few minutes until it changes colour. Stir occasionally to prevent it from burning and sticking. Once the meat is cooked, turn off the heat and set aside to cool down.
- Thinly slice the chillis, place in a pestle & mortar, gently crush (this ensures that the spiciness of the chilli infuses with the rest of the ingredients). Add the fish sauce, lemon or lime juice, palm sugar and water to the mortar. Mix well together and taste (adjust to taste, if too sweet add more fish sauce or if too salty, add more palm sugar). Sauce should have balance of sweet, sour and hot. Transfer to a bowl and set aside. Wash the mortar as it will be used later again for the rice.
- In a small pan, place the uncooked rice and gently toast it on very low heat for a few minutes. Stir occasionally until lightly golden brown. Turn off the heat as soon as the colour changes to avoid it tasting burnt. Place in mortar to let it cool down.
- Place washed baby gem lettuce in a colander and drain off all of the excess water. On a large plate or bowl, separate each of the baby gem lettuce leaves. Roughly crush the cooled down rice in the mortar and set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, add the cooled down mince pork to the chopped vegetables and mix together. Now add the sauce and mix well to coat all of the ingredients. At this stage, give it a sample taste to make sure the flavours are still balanced. Depending on if it is too sour or sweet, amend as in step 3.
- Add the toasted rice (if not using rice, add the sesame seeds) and stir. Finally, chop the mint leaves roughly and add to the mixing bowl. Give it a final good mix. Transfer the larb salad to large serving bowl and place the baby gem lettuce behind the salad or in a separate bowl.
- Serve with lime or lemon wedges. Larb salad is traditionally eaten with a glutinous sticky rice on the side, or alternatively a bowl of steamed rice.
In Thailand, the pigs say moo… Larb is a common street food in Thailand. This dish can be made with other meats like chicken, even fish and beef. Here is my version of the very popular Thai dish known as larb moo (ลาบหมู) which is Thai minced pork salad. This is by far one of my favourite Thai dishes. It has the perfect combination of spicy, sweet and sour taste as well as the freshness of a salad.
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