Sting-Ray Grilled in a Banana-Leaf Packet

Name: Sting-Ray Grilled in a Banana-Leaf Packet (Mok Pa Fa Lai)
Cuisine: Luang prabang
Ingredients: salt and fish sauce; 2 very small green chilli peppers, chopped and ground together; 2 stalks lemon grass, chopped and ground together; spring onion leaves, chopped; 5 (small) shallots, chopped and ground together; 10 leaves of sweet basil

Mok Pa Fa Lai

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Traditional Recipes of Laos

By Phia Sing

Published 1981

About

(The species of sting-ray which inhabits the Mekong belongs to the genus DASYATIS and is. It is well-known at Luang Prabang, and it is not surprising that the recipe book of Phia Sing contained a recipe for it, even though sting-rays are usually sea fish.)

Ingredients

1 piece of sting-ray about the size of a man’s hand, taken from the underside, cleaned of mucus and cut up into suitable small pieces
2 stalks lemon grass, chopped and grou

Asia
Laos
Starter
Side dish
Fish course
Pescatarian
Gluten-free
Spicy
Southeast Asia

Method

Put the prepared pieces of fish into a big bowl, add the pounded mixture, mix well and add salt and fish sauce to taste. Add also the sweet basil leaves and some of the chopped spring onion leaves. Mix well together.

Wrap the whole mixture in pieces of banana leaf in a crested shape (see