1 people · Easy · 10 min · ₭ Cheap

Menu for lunch today is Tum Mak Thoua (Long green beans spicy salad). The crunchy of green beans and taste of lime, sugar, and Padek makes perfect dish.

Ingredients

• 3 long green bean, wash and cut about 3cm long
• 5 fresh red chili, more or less
• 1 clove of garlic
• ½ teaspoon of shrimp paste (kapi)
• 1 teaspoon of MSG, optional
• 2 teaspoons of palm sugar, or white sugar is fine
• 1 tablespoon of Lao fermented fish sauce (padek), taste first, and you can add later if needed
• ½ teaspoon of fish sauce
• ½ lime
• 5 cherry tomatoes, cut half

Preparation

Step 1. Use a mortar and pestle to pound chili, garlic, shrimp paste, MSG and sugar.

Step 2. Add long green beans and pound it roughly.

Step 3. Then add cherries tomato, squeezed lime juice, fermented fish sauce (padek) and fish sauce, and gently pound all together. Taste it and rectify as you like. Serve with crispy fried pork skin. Zap :)

Tip: you can always add more or less of chili, sugar, or fish sauce.