Deer Prepared as A Salad

Name: Deer Prepared as A Salad (Sa Soy Sin Fahn)
Cuisine: Luang prabang
Ingredients: 500 grams meat from the hind legs of a fahn (a small deer) excluding the tendons, sliced into pieces 2 cm by 3 cm, salted, drenched with the juice of 10 limes and mixed thoroughly therein; 3 stalks lemon grass, these six ingredients to be chopped finely; 2 (small) heads garlic, these six ingredients to be chopped finely; 5 (small) shallots, these six ingredients to be chopped finely; 2 dried chilli peppers, these six ingredients to be chopped finely; galingale (2 or 3 slices), these six ingredients to be chopped finely; chopped spring onion leaves; chopped coriander leaves; 1 piece of the deer’s spleen, these four ingredients to be boiled until well done, then sliced thinly; tripe from the deer—the thick part, scraped, these four ingredients to be boiled until well done, then sliced thinly; 1 small piece of the deer’s liver, these four ingredients to be boiled until well done, then sliced thinly; half the deer’s heart, these four ingredients to be boiled until well done, then sliced thinly; 1 rice-bowl (½ pint) of padek; (salt); 3 Kaffir lime leaves, these six ingredients to be chopped finely

Sa Soy Sin Fahn

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Traditional Recipes of Laos

By Phia Sing

Published 1981

About

Ingredients

500 grams meat from the hind legs of a fahn (a small deer) excluding the tendons, sliced into pieces 2 cm by 3

Asia
Laos
Side dish
Starter
Southeast Asia
Spicy
Gluten-free

Method

First of all mix the meat in the lime juice and squeeze out as much liquid as possible. Put this liquid in a small pot, cook it (for a very short time) and leave it to cool. (As it cools, it will separate into a clear part and a thick part.)

Put the chopped ingredients in a small bowl. Add to and mix with these the sliced meat, the padek and salt. When all this i