Laab Nuea (Ground Beef Salad)

Directions

Combine the ground beef with the lime juice, fish sauce, galangal powder and shallots.

Heat a skillet and cook the ground beef mixture on medium-high heat for 5 minutes or until the beef is cooked.

Remove the skillet from the heat and add the chopped green onion and cilantro and the ground roasted rice.

Mix thoroughly so that everything is well combined.

Remove to a serving plate, spoon the ground pepper on the side of the plate if desired, and garnish with the mint leaves.

Serve with an accompaniment of raw vegetables, such as long string beans or snake beans, sliced cabbage, green leaf lettuce/Chinese lettuce, basil leaves, and swamp cabbage or spinach.