Lao Naem Khao
A weekend Laos dinner made with pork. Ready in about 40 minutes. Difficulty: more effort.
- 15 minPrep (about)
- 25 minCook (about)
- 40 minTotal time
- 4Servings
- More effortDifficulty
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Join the waitlist Not nowIngredients
Main ingredient
- 2 cups sour pork sausages
Fresh & other
- 3 cups jasmine rice
- 1 coconut
- 2 pickled garlic
- Juice of 1 lime
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 1 onion
- 1 shallot
- 3 green onions Shopping tip: Green onions (scallions).
- 1 cup cilantro Shopping tip: Fresh cilantro (UK: coriander). Use the leaves and soft stems.
- ½ cup hot mint
- ½ cup mint Shopping tip: Fresh mint leaves.
- ¼ cup roasted peanuts
- To serve vegetable
- To serve lettuce
Sauces & oils
- Splash oil Shopping tip: Vegetable or olive oil.
- 2 tbsp fish sauce
How to make it
Steps in our own plain words.
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Slice the onion and shallots thinly.
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Let them soak in ice water bath while preparing rest of the meal.
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Grate the coconut.
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Put in a large bowl.
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Add the coconut in a large bowl.
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Add the rice.
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Mix the coconut and rice together using your hands.
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Roll the mix to form 2-inch rice ball croquettes.
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Heat up your cooking oil in a pot or pan.
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Beat two eggs and a large bowl.
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Dip the balls into the egg mixture.
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Drop the balls into the cooking oil.
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Let your balls to turn dark amber brown color.
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Deep fry until crispy, crunchy, and golden.
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Remove.
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Set.
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Do it on paper towel to drain excess oil.
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Wait until cooled.
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Break apart the rice balls.
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Add into a larger bowl.
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Drain the onion and the shallots.
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Make sure you tear your pork sausage up into small pieces.
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Use a knife too, but your traditional method is tearing.
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Add in your onion, shallots, sour pork, pickled garlic, lime juice, sauce, sugar, cilantro, hot mint, regular mint in the large bowl.
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Top with peanuts.
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Serve with other fresh vegetables, dry chilli and Lettuce.
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Preserving Naem Khao Recipe.
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Naem Khao can be kept in your refrigerator for 4 days.
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It can then be served chilled.
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It should not be frozen.
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Serving Naem Khao.
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Nam Khao is generally served using lettuce leaves and a variety of different perilla, basil, mint and herbs like hot mint.
On the side: Steamed vegetables
A side we added to round out the meal. It is not part of the original recipe.
How to make it (10 min)
- Steam or microwave the frozen vegetables as the bag says. Season with salt and a little butter.
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Join the waitlistRecipe from TheMealDB, adapted from the original. Steps rewritten in our own words. Times are estimates.