‘Sour’ Poached Eggs

Name: ‘Sour’ Poached Eggs (Khai Tom Na Som)
Cuisine: Luang prabang
Ingredients: (1 soupspoonful pork fat); 6 hen’s eggs; 1 (small) bowl of meat broth; 1 small can of tomato paste; salt, fish sauce and ground black pepper; salt, fish sauce and ground black pepper; 3 straight-bulbed spring onions—cut off the roots and the leaves, crush the bulbs and chop them finely; 3 straight-bulbed spring onions—cut off the roots and the leaves, crush the bulbs and chop them finely; (if you had a large onion, it would be better)*; chopped coriander leaves; salt, fish sauce and ground black pepper; (ground dried red chilli pepper)

Khai Tom Na Som

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Traditional Recipes of Laos

By Phia Sing

Published 1981

About

Ingredients

6 hen’s eggs
(1 soupspoonful pork fat)
3 straight-bulbed spring onions

Asia
Laos
Side dish
Starter
Gluten-free
Southeast Asia

Method

Boil some water in a pot. Crack one of the eggs, open it and slip the egg into the boiling water without letting the yolk break. When it is cooked use a perforated ladle to take it out. Put it on a plate. Repeat until all the eggs are cooked.

Heat 1 soupspoonful of pork fat