Or Lam

Name: Or Lam
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 1 h 5 min
Cuisine: Laotian
Ingredients: 400g beef or pork, cubed; 200g eggplant, cubed; 100g wood ear mushrooms; 2 stalks lemongrass, bruised; 3 cloves garlic, minced; 3 long red chillies; 2 tbsp fish sauce; dill large bunch

Laotian wood ear mushroom and buffalo skin stew with sakhan (litsea) bark — a rich, aromatic braise from Luang Prabang.

Total time

65 min

Prep

15 min

Cook

50 min

Difficulty

medium

Cuisine

Laotian

Ingredients

400gbeef or pork, cubed

200geggplant, cubed

100gwood ear mushrooms

2 stalkslemongrass, bruised

3 clovesgarlic, minced

3long red chillies

2 tbspfish sauce

dilllarge bunch

Instructions

Brown meat in oil. Add garlic and lemongrass.

Add mushrooms, eggplant and chilli.

Cover with 500ml water. Simmer 45 minutes.

Season with fish sauce.

Stir in dill. Serve with sticky rice.