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(This recipe would probably be the most authentic recipe for chicken laap documented. It's more historical than workable but if the ingredients are available it makes a superb dish. This really is the true laap and everything else is a good compromise.. With this outline you can make the true Fish laap and the true Duck Laap. )



Ingredients:

  • 1 free-range chicken, plucked, washed and gutted; take the meat from the breasts and legs and chop it finely; take the skin, the liver and the gizzard, wash them, tie them together with thread and cook them by boiling them in broth, then slice them thinly
  • 5 round eggplants, cooked by putting them in the charcoal fire until their skins are burned
  • 3 (small) heads garlic, seared over a charcoal fire
  • 2 (small) shallots, seared over a charcoal fire
  • 3 dried chilli peppers, grilled until brittle
  • 2 slices of galingale
  • (The above five ingredients to be pounded together - we call the result kheuang lap, meaning ingredients for the lap)
  • 1 rice-bowl (1/4 pint) of "or padek"
  • 1 medium-sized bowl of broth to which fish sauce has not been added an appropriate quantity of ground khao khoua (uncooked sticky rice, toasted in a hot dry pan, then pounded very thoroughly) a young banana flower, sliced
  • 3 (small) heads of garlic, chopped and fried until golden-brown and giving off a good aroma
  • 3 Kaffir lime leaves, chopped spring onion leaves, chopped coriander leaves, salt


Method:

  1. Mix the minced chicken with the kheuang lap.
  2. Add salt and the or padek, and mix some more.
  3. When the mixture has a sufficiently strong taste of padek, add the broth and stir.
  4. Then add the khao khoua and the sliced banana flower.
  5. Add also the sliced chicken skin (etcetera) and the fried garlic. Taste and check the saltiness.
  6. Arrange the ingredients on a platter.
  7. Garnish with chopped spring onion leaves, chopped coriander leaves and the Kaffir lime leaves, also chopped.
  8. Serve with Keng Som (any kind of sour soup) and a variety of fresh (raw) vegetables.