Fried White Mushrooms

Name: Fried White Mushrooms (Pad Hed Khao)
Cuisine: Luang prabang
Ingredients: (meat broth); (2 soupspoonfuls of) pork fat; salt, fish sauce and ground black pepper; chopped coriander; 1 piece of pork, including some fat, the size of a hand—wash it, cut it into oblong pieces and rub them with salt, ground black pepper and crushed garlic; 2 duck’s or hen’s eggs; 6 (small) shallots, peeled and crushed; 3 spring onions—chop the bulbs and the leaves; 1 soupbowlful of young white mushrooms (hed khao)—cut off the bottoms of the stalks and wash them—if they are large tear them into smaller pieces of uniform size

Pad Hed Khao

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Traditional Recipes of Laos

By Phia Sing

Published 1981

About

Ingredients

1 piece of pork, including some fat, the size of a hand—wash it, cut it into oblong pieces and rub them with salt, ground black pepper and crushed garlic
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Asia
Laos
Side dish
Starter
Gluten-free
Southeast Asia

Method

Put a wok on the fire and put the 2 soupspoonfuls of pork fat in it. When the fat is hot, fry the crushed shallots in it. When these give off a good aroma, add the pieces of pork. Continue frying until the liquid is reduced, then sprinkle in some fish sauce. When the pieces of pork