Name: Hot, sweet, salty and sour wraps
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Thai
Ingredients: 4 cm piece fresh galangal or root ginger, peeled and finely chopped; handful of lightly toasted peanuts; 2 limes, finely chopped (skin on); a few tiny hot chillies (optional); 4 tbsp finely chopped palm sugar or muscovado sugar; 3 tsp shrimp paste; ¼ fresh coconut, flesh shaved into small shreds and pan-toasted; 20 cha phlu, betel or regular lettuce leaves; small handful of dried shrimp; 5 cm piece fresh root ginger, peeled, finely chopped; 2 tbsp fish sauce; 3 tbsp toasted crushed peanuts; 4 small shallots, chopped; 3 cloves garlic

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Food and Travels

By Alastair Hendy

Published 2004

About

Leaf wraps, mien kum, are sold by hawkers in their components, neatly poly-bagged in kit form, for home assembly. Wedges of fresh mango are also sold bagged with a similar hot peanut sauce. Pre-shredded and toasted coconut can be had from Thai food stores. It’s table-assembly food. DIY stuff. So platter up all the ingredients, then get piling, saucing and folding.