Laab Recipe

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Recipe Ingredients

1/4 tablespoon ground dried chili pepper
5 sprigs sliced cilantro
3 tablespoons fish sauce
1/2 lbs ground Beef
1-2 limes
1/4 thinly sliced shallot
1 tablespoon toasted rice
3 sprigs spearmint Optional
1 sliced green onion Optional


Recipe Method

Squeeze juice from 1/3 of the lime on to the ground Beef. Mix well and let it marinate for just a couple of minutes until you are ready to cook it.

Heat up a pan on high until it is very hot. Add two tablespoons of water and then immediately add your marinated beef and stir. The beef will stick to the pan at first, but then the juice will come out and the meat will loosen from the bottom. Keep stirring until the beef is well done. Traditionally, the beef is undercooked, but I do not recommend under cooking beef for health reasons.

Put the beef in a bowl a large mixing bowl that will hold all the ingredients. Add fish sauce, green onion, shallot, cilantro, the rest of the lime juice, ground chili pepper and almost all of toasted rice into the bowl. Save some toasted rice to sprinkle on top for garnish. Mix well and taste. It should be a little bit hot. You should be able to taste tartness from the lime juice and the fish sauce. If you need to add more fish sauce or lime juice, don't be afraid. Getting the flavor balance right is a trial and error process.

Put the mixed ingredients in a serving bowl, garnish with spearmint and sprinkle the rest of toasted rice on top. Serve with vegetables like cabbage, green beans, lettuce and Thai basil.