Láab Moó (Ground Pork with Seasonings and Rice)

Cook the ground pork, chicken, or beef in a pan over medium heat. Be careful not to brown it – you are cooking it thoroughly and slowly in the half a cup of water, until fully cooked.

Transfer all the ingredients of the pan into a mixing bowl, add the chopped scallions, Thai peppers, red pepper flakes, and lime juice. Mix all of these ingredients together and allow the flavors to blend before serving the dish.

Place the Láab onto a bed of cooked white rice and enjoy.

* Surely, things can be substituted, but my recommendation is that you do not substitute the scallions in this dish. Regular onions, red onions, green onions, etc. just don’t cut it and give a taste altogether different than the classic Láab dish that uses scallions. Also, although any hot pepper can be substituted, I caution people from the West in using Thai peppers, especially Thai Bird’s eye peppers which I grow and use (sparingly) in this dish. Be careful – they are extremely hot and can ruin a dish if too many are used.