A Less Elaborate Yam (mixed dish)

Name: A Less Elaborate Yam (mixed dish) (Yam Noi)
Cuisine: Luang prabang
Ingredients: salt and fish sauce; salt and fish sauce; 1 duck’s egg, made into an omelette and thinly sliced; 1 duck’s egg, made into an omelette and thinly sliced; 3 round eggplants, the flesh only, all thinly sliced; 1 coriander plant, stems and leaves only, finely chopped; 1 coriander plant, stems and leaves only, finely chopped; 5 shoots of mint, finely chopped; 1 tablespoon of roasted sesame seeds or peanuts, pounded; 1 tablespoon of roasted sesame seeds or peanuts, pounded; 1 (small) head garlic, placed in a charcoal fire until cooked, then peeled and pounded to become the kheuang tam; 2 (small) shallots, placed in a charcoal fire until cooked, then peeled and pounded to become the kheuang tam; 1 cucumber, the flesh only, all thinly sliced; half a Chinese cabbage, all thinly sliced; 5 tender young shoots of phak hong (water spinach), blanched and cut into pieces; 4 yard-long beans, blanched and cut into pieces; 1 hen’s egg, made into an omelette and sliced thinly; 1 hen’s egg, made into an omelette and sliced thinly; 1 piece of three-layer pork, cooked and sliced thinly; 1 piece of pork, cooked and shredded; 1 piece of fish, cooked and shredded

Yam Noi

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Traditional Recipes of Laos

By Phia Sing

Published 1981

About

Ingredients

1 piece of fish, cooked and shredded
1 piece of pork, cooked and shredded
1

Asia
Laos
Main course
Side dish
Starter
Southeast Asia
Soup
Gluten-free

Method

After preparing the above ingredients, put all the vegetables together in a large bowl, except for the mint and coriander. Sprinkle on some salt, and squeeze them while mixing them thoroughly together.

Mix the pounded ingredients (kheuang tam) with some broth. Add the shredded fish and pork, and the sliced three-layer pork, and a sprinkling of fish sauce. Taste,