Recipe - Larb (Savory Chopped Pork Salad)

2 cup Ground lean pork (you could
substitute ground chicken
or beef)
One half cup Water
2 tablespoon Lime juice
2 tablespoon Panroasted rice of dry
crumbs, or bread crumbs
One half Ground chili pepper
2 tablespoon Thinly cut or sliced up shallots
2 Spring onions, cut thin
1 Coriander plant, chopped
(can use stems)
2 tablespoon Fish sauce
One half cup Mint leaves

Stir the pork in boiled water until done. (This keeps it from burning.)
Remove the pork from water.

Mix the panroasted rice or bread crumbs, ground chili, shallot, spring
onions and coriander stems or root. Season to taste with the fish sauce and
the lime juice. Sprinkle with mint leaves and serve with yardlong beans,
cabbage, shallots and spring onions. You can fold the larb salad into a
little cabbage package and serve as a minisandwich or tiny Thai taco.

Posted to FOODWINE Digest 25 Jan 97 by "Ted D. Conley"
tedconley@EARTHLINK.NET on Jan 25, 1997.