Larb Gai

Thai

Larb Gai

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Larb Gai is Thai home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

30 min Medium Gluten free Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves
4

The quantities follow this count.

How to cook it

  1. Toast the 2 tbsp raw jasmine rice in a dry skillet until deep golden, then grind it to a coarse powder.

  2. Cook the ground chicken in a skillet with a splash of water over medium-high heat, breaking it up until cooked through, about 7 minutes.

  3. Take the pan off the heat and stir in the toasted rice powder, fish sauce, lime juice, chili flakes, and brown sugar.

  4. Fold in the sliced shallots, scallions, mint, and cilantro while the chicken is still warm.

  5. Taste and adjust with more lime or fish sauce for a bright, salty, sour balance.

  6. Serve with butter lettuce leaves for wrapping and a bowl of jasmine rice.

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Serve it with

A Thai dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Larb Gai, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Larb Gai carries fish. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Larb Gai
Allergen In this dish Cook this instead
Peanuts No
Tree nuts No
Dairy No
Gluten No
Shellfish No
Eggs No
Soy No
Fish Yes Jok Moo (Rice Congee with Pork Meatballs)
Sesame No
Coconut No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories
480 kcal
Protein
34 g
Carbs
47 g
Fat
17 g
Fiber
1 g
Sugar
2 g
Sodium
780 mg
Saturated fat
5 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Larb Gai takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.

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