Name: Larb
Yield: A Quick, Albeit Eye-Watering, Supper for 2
Cuisine: Laos
Ingredients: 2 tbsp fish sauce; big handful of fresh coriander (cilantro), chopped; big handful of fresh mint, shredded; ½ sheet of pork skin (optional: cheat and use ready-made artisan pork scratchings); 300 g/10½ oz.minced (ground) pork; 2 garlic cloves, minced; sea salt; ¼ tsp chilli powder; around 2 tbsp cold water; 2–3 spring onions (scallion(s)), minced; ½ tsp dried chilli (red pepper) flakes (or more if you’re up for the challenge); 3 limes, 2 juiced and 1 to garnish; salt; 1–2 tbsp.ground roasted rice (khao kua)*

Preparation info

A Quick, Albeit Eye-Watering, Supper for
2

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Salmagundi

By Sally Butcher

Published 2014

About

One’s best beloved selected something like this on one of our first dates. Why do men do that? Order really hot stuff to impress, I mean. It results at best in an unnaturally glowing complexion, and taken to its extreme can kill all possibility of romance. I’m sure you don’t need me to expound on that any further.

This is, heat notwithstanding, an utterly addictive salad – and as you are making it, you can, of course, make it as hot or as mild as you like (use any meat you like – du