Ingredients
- Ingredients for Rice Paper Flower
- even number of Valcom rice paper
- 1 tbsp cooled cooked rice, divided into 2 separate bowls
- natural food colouring, can use one or two
- Oil to deep fry the rice paper
- Ingredients for Thai Pork Laab Salad
- 1 tbsp raw glutinous rice
- 400g pork mince
- ¼ cup finely sliced red shallots
- ¼ cup roughly chopped coriander
- ½ cup mint leaves
- 1 cucumber, finely diced
- Lettuce or any other vegetables and extra herbs, to serve
- Dressing:
- 3 tbsp fish sauce
- 2 tsp grated palm sugar or brown sugar
- 2 tsp chilli flakes (or to taste)
- 2 tbsp lime juice
Method
- How to make the Rice Paper Flowers?
- Mix cooked rice with a dash of natural food colouring. Set aside. You can use one colour or two colours or as many colours as you wish.
- Prepare 2 rice paper. Cut one to resemble the big flower. And cut the second rice paper to resemble the smaller flower.
- Stick a bit of coloured cooked rice on the big flower rice paper and put the small cut of rice paper flower piece on top to stick together. Top with another small piece of coloured cooked rice.
- Fry them and drain the oil really well. Set aside. You can eat as is as snack, sprinkle with salt first or as the 'plate/spoon' for our Thai Laab salad later on.
- For the salad dressing, mix all ingredients and set aside until ready to serve.
- Toast the glutinous rice in a dry frying pan over high heat until golden brown. Remove from heat and use a mortar and pestle or a spice grinder to grind rice to a fine powder.
- Cook mince pork in a non-stick frying pan until just cooked. Remove from heat and transfer the pork to a large bowl. While the pork is warm, add the shallots in and toss. Add dressing and the toasted rice powder, and cucumber and mix again to combine. Taste and adjust the seasoning with more chilli powder, fish sauce and/or lime juice if needed.
- When you’re happy with the flavour, add the coriander and mint leaves and mix well. Serve the salad warm with lettuce or any other vegetables, and extra herb. Or put the laab salad onto the prepared rice paper flower, and enjoy the combination of crunch texture and the freshness of the salad.
Product used in recipe
- Squid Brand - Fish Sauce
- Valcom - Rice Paper
