Fried Chicken

Name: Fried Chicken (Khoua Kai)
Cuisine: Luang prabang
Ingredients: ground black pepper; chopped coriander leaves; chopped spring onion leaves; salt and fish sauce; 4 Kaffir lime leaves, to be torn apart and washed; pork fat; 1 chicken, washed and gutted and cut into medium size pieces—wash also its gizzard and slice it finely; 1 chicken, washed and gutted and cut into medium size pieces—wash also its gizzard and slice it finely; salt, to be rubbed into the pieces of chicken; salt, to be rubbed into the pieces of chicken; 1 (small) head of garlic—separate and peel the cloves, crush them and chop them finely; 1 (small) head of garlic—separate and peel the cloves, crush them and chop them finely; 1 mature coconut—grate the meat and make three extractions of coconut milk— half a litre of the first and a large soupbowlful (i.e. just over half a litre) of the other two combined; 1 mature coconut—grate the meat and make three extractions of coconut milk— half a litre of the first and a large soupbowlful (i.e. just over half a litre) of the other two combined; ground black pepper, to be rubbed into the pieces of chicken; ground black pepper, to be rubbed into the pieces of chicken; 5 (small) shallots, these two ingredients to be pounded finely together; salt and fish sauce; 3 dried red chilli peppers, soaked in water until soft, these two ingredients to be pounded finely together; 3 dried red chilli peppers, soaked in water until soft, these two ingredients to be pounded finely together

Khoua Kai

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Traditional Recipes of Laos

By Phia Sing

Published 1981

About

Ingredients

1 chicken, washed and gutted and cut into medium size pieces—wash also its gizzard and slice it finely
1 (small) head of garlic—separate and peel the c

Asia
Laos
Side dish
Main course
Gluten-free

Method

After preparing all the ingredients, heat a soupspoonful of pork fat in a wok. Add the pounded ingredients and fry them until they give off a good aroma. Then put in the chicken pieces, mix and stir, add the fish sauce, and keep stirring until a good aroma is again given off. Now ad