Green bean lawar

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Fire Islands: Recipes from Indonesia

By Eleanor Ford

Published 2019

  • About

Word spread in excited chatters around the Bali morning market that I, a foreigner, was planning to cook lawar. The lady selling bundles of verdant greens in palm leaf packaging, the vendor with plump ginger roots still damp with earth, the butcher chopping meat with her cleaver and the seller who wrapped individual spices to order, each laughed and clucked in delight to hear I was making the Balinese delicacy. Meaning ‘finely chopped’, the mere thought of this aromatic salad of minc