About this dish
An Isan herb curry without coconut milk, fragrant with dill, lemongrass and chillies, usually made with chicken or beef offal.
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Ingredients
🍗400g chicken on the bone, or beef and offal, chopped
🌶️6 dried red chillies, soaked, and 4 fresh chillies
🌿2 stalks lemongrass, 4 shallots, 3 garlic cloves
🌿1 large bunch dill, chopped
🍃Spring onions and holy basil
🌾1 tbsp soaked sticky rice, ground
🐟2 tbsp fish sauce and 1 tbsp pla ra (fermented fish sauce)
Method
Serves 21
Pound the chillies, lemongrass, shallots and garlic into a coarse paste.2
Stir-fry the paste with the meat in a dry pot until fragrant.3
Add 1 litre water and the pla ra and simmer until the meat is tender.4
Stir in the ground rice to thicken slightly.5
Season with fish sauce, add the dill, spring onions and basil, and serve with sticky rice.✓ What Makes it Authentic
Gaeng om is a home-style dish of northeastern Thailand and Laos, thickened with a little ground sticky rice and loaded with fresh dill.
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