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Larb Gai 

CATEGORIES: Chicken, Dinner, Lunch

Ingredients

  • ¼ cup rice - you may not need to use all but I roast this much.
  • ½ chicken breast, minced
  • 1 chicken thigh, trim fat, minced
  • 4 kaffir lime leaves, finely sliced
  • 2 ½ dried red chilis, ground
  • ½ lemon, juiced
  • ½ lime, juiced
  • 1 shallot, finely sliced
  • ¼  red onion, finely diced
  • 2 tbsp fish sauce
  • ½ cup mint leaves
  • ½ cup coriander leaves
  • Finely sliced cucumber, to serve
  • Steamed rice, to serve
  • 1 x fresh red chilli to sprinkle on top
 

Method

Serves 2

Heat a frying pan over a medium heat, add the rice and toss to toast rice until grains are golden. Cool, then place in a mortar, using a pestle pound rice into a fine powder.

Place the chicken in a saucepan, with a little water (about 3 tbsp), place over a low heat and gently cook until white and just cooked. Add the lime leaves, chilli, lemon and lime juice, shallot, red onion and fish sauce. Finally add the ground rice.

Stir through the mint and coriander leaves.

Arrange cucumber slices on a serving plate, top with the larb, with a bowl of steamed rice to the side to serve.

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