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Mok Nor Mai (ໝົກໜໍ່ໄມ້) – Bamboo Shoots in Banana Leaf
Mok Nor Mai comes from Laos, where bamboo shoots lie on every market stall in the rainy season. You mix the cooked shoots with eggs, dill, lemongrass and padaek and steam them in banana leaves. The egg sets into a soft cake while the shoots keep their bite. Dill and padaek make the dish unmistakably Lao. You eat it as a side with sticky rice, grilled meat or a chili dip.
Mok Nor Mai (ໝົກໜໍ່ໄມ້) – Bamboo Shoots in Banana Leaf
Laura Chen
4
25 minutes
30 minutes
90
Lao
Side dish
Mok Nor Mai is a Lao packet of bamboo shoots, egg, dill and lemongrass that you steam in banana leaf. The eggs bind the filling into a soft cake. Unlike Mok Gai and Mok Pa, there is no meat and no fish, and only the padaek adds salty depth.
Ingredients
- 400 g cooked bamboo shoots (jar, can or vacuum pack), drained and cut into fine strips
- 2 stalks lemongrass, pale part only, finely chopped
- 2 shallots, roughly chopped
- 2 garlic cloves
- 2 red chilies
- 3 eggs
- 1 tbsp padaek (Lao fermented fish sauce with pieces of fish)
- 1 tbsp fish sauce
- 1 tsp sugar
- 2 makrut lime leaves (aromatic leaves of the makrut lime), cut into fine strips
- 20 g dill, roughly chopped
- 3 scallions, cut into rings
- 4 banana leaves, each about 30 x 30 cm
- 8 toothpicks
Instructions
- Make the banana leaves pliable: pass them briefly over a gas flame or dip them in hot water for 10 seconds.
- Blanch the bamboo strips in boiling water for 5 minutes, drain and squeeze out well in a cloth.
- Pound the lemongrass, shallots, garlic and chilies in a mortar for 3 minutes into a coarse paste.
- Whisk the eggs with the padaek, fish sauce and sugar. Stir in the paste, bamboo, makrut lime leaves, dill and scallions.
- Divide the mixture among the four leaves, fold them into packets and fasten them with toothpicks.
- Steam the packets over boiling water for 25 minutes, until the egg is set. Pierce one to test: no liquid egg should run out.
- Let the packets rest for 5 minutes and eat them warm or lukewarm with sticky rice.
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