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Pork larb

Pork larb

Serves 4

Cooking Time Prep time 10 mins, cook 5 mins



125 ml (½ cup)   chicken stock
1 kg   minced pork
1 tbsp   toasted ground sticky rice (see note)
2   kaffir lime leaves, thinly sliced
60 ml (¼ cup)   fish sauce, or to taste
1 tbsp   white sugar, or to taste
4   small dried red chillies, coarsely crushed
4   red shallots, thinly sliced
2   limes, juice only
1   Lebanese cucumber, halved and thinly sliced lengthways
6   snake beans, thinly sliced diagonally
100 gm   savoy cabbage, thinly sliced
1 cup (loosely packed) each   Thai basil, spearmint and coriander leaves
To serve:   Green chillies and lime cheeks


1 Heat stock in a large frying pan, add pork and ground rice and cook, stirring continuously for 3 minutes or until pork is just cooked. Add lime leaves, fish sauce and sugar to taste and cook for 2 minutes. Remove from heat, adjust seasoning with fish sauce, lime juice, sugar and dried chilli. Serve with vegetables, herbs, green chillies and lime cheeks to the side.

Note Ground sticky rice is used as a binding agent and is available from Asian grocery stores.

RECIPE Adelaide Lucas PHOTOGRAPHY Teny Aghamalian STYLING Elodie Rambaud


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