Pig’s Trotter with Cabbage

Name: Pig’s Trotter with Cabbage (Teen Moo Om Kalampi)
Cuisine: Luang prabang
Ingredients: 1 head of cabbage, quartered and washed; 3 sprigs of coriander, washed and tied together; 3 straight-bulbed spring onions, washed and tied into a loose knot; 1 handful of peeled garlic (cloves); 1 large onion, sliced vertically; 1 handful of peeled shallots; 1 pig’s trotter—singe it over a flame, then scrape off all the hair, remove the nails and wash it; (1) Chinese radish, cut into four sections and washed; salt, fish sauce and ground black pepper; chopped coriander leaves; chopped spring onion leaves

Teen Moo Om Kalampi

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Traditional Recipes of Laos

By Phia Sing

Published 1981

About

Ingredients

1 pig’s trotter—singe it over a flame, then scrape off all the hair, remove the nails and wash it
1 handful of peeled shallots

Asia
Laos
Starter
Side dish
Gluten-free
Southeast Asia

Method

Put some water in a pot and put the pot on the fire, adding salt and the various ‘head vegetables’ (presumably meaning the shallots, garlic, cabbage and Chinese radish). When the water comes to the boil, put in the trotter and a sprinkling of fish sauce as well as the spring onions and onion. Leave it to go on boiling until the trotter is well cooked and tender. Then take it ou