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Larb moo – Thai spicy pork mince in lettuce leaf

A very simple and tasty dish – perfect on its own or with some rice.

  • larb moo with lettuce leaves

This dish has a very distinctive flavour in the combination of lime juice, fish sauce and palm sugar. Try it and you’ll see. It’s very moreish and you will be fighting over the last lettuce leaf to scoop up every fiery morsel.

The chilli is optional to be honest, make it as spicy or not as you like.

Have everything prepared before you start cooking the pork mince as it really doesn’t take long at all. This is definitely one of those dishes where it calls for a little fat in your pork mince if you can get it, I’m talking about choosing 10/20% fat rather than 2% fat pork mince. 500g should be comfortable for feeding two, you’ll wonder why you didn’t make more once you start…

Use the lettuce leaves as boats and spoon over that juicy pork.

See full receipe

Happy eating!!

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Pad thai

A quick, easy dinner. Also very versatile and you can use any meat you want, here I used chicken thighs that I had in the fridge. You can even use prawns instead or as well. The key is the flavouring to pad thai.

This is the type of rice sticks that I used, there are a variety of these available at Asian supermarkets of different thickness. You’ll see that I am using the Vietnamese rice noodles here which is fine for pad thai. All you have to do is soak the noodles in hot water for about 10 minutes then they’re ready to be used whether for frying or in soup (as in Pho).

To make sure your noodles will be fried in high heat later, cook your chopped meat in the same wok you will be using later. Remove from wok and set aside.

Make sure you have all your ingredients ready to hand before you move onto the next step.

In a hot wok, heat a tablespoon of oil, fry the shallots/onions until softened. Add preserved radish (if using) and beansprouts and fry for a couple of minutes. Add your cooked chicken and softened noodles. Add the sauce mix (see recipe) then mix into the noodle mix quickly.

Serve with chopped coriander, peanuts and a slice of lime.

See recipe

Happy eating!