Authentic thai 'larb gai' spicy salad

So all we travellers have been to the land of thailand rich in wonders of all sorts you know what i mean smells that will be with you for a thousand years yes its not the arabian nights but just as sensual and exotic a country to savour in every way Graham Greene wrote of vietnam as an exotic and heady place where you could lose yourself in the heat and smells bet he thought of thailand as very similar.

This salad makes a green or a western salad run away and hide in shame

400grams fine minced chicken meat

fish sauce sugar lime juice roasted chilli powder (balance taste salty sweet sour and hot when mixed in with the chicken)

cook mince in non stick pan with a tablespoon of water to help it not stick stir stir and break up mince till cooked if there is liquid left after cooking drain it 

let cool say 50 minutes

put one tablespoon of jasmine rice into very small non stick pan and roast gently till light brown watching and swishing pan about ...ground in a small morter n pestle very lightly it still must be whole just broken (this is important) 

then add fish sauce sugar lime juice roasted chilli powder 

so 1 teaspoon of all and taste then add remember salty sweet sour and hot

balance these and you are budda! well you are not going to get as fat as him eating this!

add chopped shallots spring onions mint leaves and the roasted rice

serve slighty chilled with a bed of salad and singa beer!

thai heaven