Recipe: Delicious Laap Gai aka Minced Chicken Salad

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Laap Gai aka Minced Chicken Salad. Laab Gai or spicy Thai chicken salad from the kitchen of Baan Klang Nam. This wonderful family operated restaurant is located at the end of Rawai Beach Rd. Thai Minced Chicken Salad is: Savory (from fish sauce and shallots).

Laap Gai aka Minced Chicken Salad Cook chicken with a little water. In a bowl combine chicken, fish sauce, palm sugar, lime juice, ground roasted rice, green onions, coriander leaves, shallots, ground dried chillies and mint leaves. Salads of Laos and Thailand tend not to focus on leafy greens but rather use meat, seafood, fruit and herbs as their main ingredients. You can cook Laap Gai aka Minced Chicken Salad using 11 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Laap Gai aka Minced Chicken Salad

  1. It's 1 lb of Chicken Breast with Skin.
  2. You need 1 bunch of Cilantro.
  3. Prepare 1 bunch of Green Onions.
  4. You need 1 stick of Lemongrass.
  5. Prepare 3 of Kaffir Leaves.
  6. You need 10 of as needed Thai Peppers.
  7. It's 3 of Limes.
  8. You need 1 tsp of Crushed Red Chilli Pepper.
  9. It's 3 tbsp of Roasted Rice.
  10. Prepare 3 tbsp of Fish Sauce.
  11. Prepare 1 of as needed Salt.

Place the cold chicken meat into a large food processor and mince the chicken thighs by pulsing the machine until the meat is ground quite fine. Laab Gai is a Thai minced chicken salad flavored with lime, fish sauce, herbs, and onion. Due to inconsistencies in translation, Laab is often also spelled as Larb, Lahb, Larp, or Laap. She Simmers does a great job explaining the reasons for the inconsistencies and the basics of Laab Gai.

Laap Gai aka Minced Chicken Salad step by step

  1. Chop green onions, cilantro, and Thai chillies.
  2. Thinly slice kaffir leaves and halve limes.
  3. Preheat wok on medium high heat.
  4. Remove chicken skin and season with salt.
  5. Mince chicken breast thoroughly.
  6. Add minced chicken to preheated wok.
  7. Cook chicken breast until there is no more pink.
  8. Drain meat and add to a large mixing bowl.
  9. Pan fry chicken skin in skillet over medium heat until golden brown.
  10. Chop chicken skin and add over minced chicken.
  11. Sprinkle rice powder and crushed red chili pepper over minced chicken and mix.
  12. Add juiced lime and fish sauce over minced chicken and mix.
  13. Add green onions, cilantro, lemongrass and Thai peppers and mix.

Thai/Laos style mince pork salad recipe Larb! Sometimes it spells Larb, Laab, Laap. But only thing that they have common is, they are DELICIOUS! Today I'm going to share Lao's mince pork salad recipe (It's also common in Thai cuisine as well)! It spells so many different ways, Larb, Laab, Laap… This Larb Gai chicken salad recipe is classic Thai, with mint marrying beautifully with the chicken.