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Pork Larb Lettuce Wrap - healthy and delicious Thai ground pork lettuce wraps with a savory, sweet and mildly spicy dipping sauce. So good!

Pork Larb Lettuce Wrap - healthy and delicious Thai ground pork lettuce wraps with a savory, sweet and mildly spicy dipping sauce. So good | rasamalaysia.com

Easy and delicious Thai pork larb Lettuce Wrap.

Originally published in 2012, updated with new photos.

Healthy and delicious Thai ground pork lettuce wraps with a savory, sweet and mildly spicy dipping sauce.

Larb is a healthy ground meat salad popular in the northern parts of Thailand as well as in Laos.

I believe larb originated from Laos, but this Pork Larb Lettuce Wrap recipe is adapted from a recent issue of Food & Wine magazine. Larb is usually served with raw vegetables and makes a perfect filling for lettuce wraps.

Laos minced pork larb wrapped in lettuce leave.

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I came from Malaysia, the cross-road of Southeast Asia so the regional cuisines are my favorite food in the whole world.

This pork larb lettuce wrap fits my bill; its savory filling, the fresh and crispy lettuce, plus the perfectly balanced dipping sauce that is savory, sweet, spicy, and sour at the same time.

Healthy Asian minced pork recipe wrapped in lettuce leaves ready to serve.

To assemble, take a little bit of the ground pork filling and fill the middle of the lettuce leave. Add the dipping sauce on top of the meat, wrap and enjoy.

If you like some extra heat, you may add Thai chilies in your lettuce wraps but I think most people will find it too spicy. Enjoy!

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    Pork Larb Lettuce Wrap Recipe

    Servings 4 people
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    Pork Larb Lettuce Wrap - healthy and delicious Thai ground pork lettuce wraps with a savory, sweet and mildly spicy dipping sauce. So good!

    Calories 230 kcal
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    Ingredients

    • Ingredients:

    Dipping Sauce:

    • 2 tablespoons fish sauce
    • 2 tablespoons lime juice
    • 1 1/2 tablespoons sugar
    • 2 Thai chilies with seeds, thinly sliced, optional
    • 1 tablespoon water

    Filling:

    • 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
    • 4 cloves garlic, thinly sliced
    • 1 teaspoon sugar
    • 1/2 pound ground pork
    • 1 teaspoon fish sauce
    • 1/2 teaspoon soy sauce
    • Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste

    Garnish:

    • 1/4 cup torn basil, mint and cilantro leaves
    • 1 Thai chili with seeds, thinly sliced, (optional)
    • 1 butterhead or iceberg lettuce
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    Directions

    1. 1
      Combine all the ingredients for the Dipping Sauce and whisk to blend. Set aside or refrigerate until use.
    2. 2
      For the Filling, heat up the oil in a skillet over medium heat. Add in the garlic and cook until golden brown. Add the sugar and cook for 20 seconds.
    3. 3
      Mix in the pork and cook over moderate high heat. Break the meat finely and cook thoroughly until no pink, about 4 minutes. Add in the fish sauce and soy sauce, stir to mix. Add in salt and pepper to taste. Turn off heat, transfer to a bowl and set aside.
    4. 4
      To assemble, take a tablespoon or two (depending on the size of the leave) of the ground pork filling and fill the middle of the lettuce leave. Add the dipping sauce on top of the meat, wrap and enjoy. If you like some extra heat, you may add the Thai chilies in your lettuce wraps, which is optional.

    Recipe Notes

    You can choose to substitute with ground beef or chicken.

    Nutrition Facts
    Pork Larb Lettuce Wrap Recipe
    Amount Per Serving
    Calories 230 Calories from Fat 144
    % Daily Value*
    Fat 16g25%
    Saturated Fat 7g44%
    Cholesterol 41mg14%
    Sodium 904mg39%
    Potassium 406mg12%
    Carbohydrates 11g4%
    Fiber 1g4%
    Sugar 8g9%
    Protein 12g24%
    Vitamin A 1750IU35%
    Vitamin C 53.9mg65%
    Calcium 37mg4%
    Iron 1.5mg8%
    * Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
    Course: Side Dish
    Cuisine: Asian
    Keyword: Pork Larb Lettuce Wrap
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    1. Gary

      Reply

      Don’t cook the meats in oil. That’s not true laab. Cook them in plain water. You’ll get a totally different texture suited for salad. And use palm sugar. Toasted rice powder, too!

    3. Yggy

      Reply

      By the way, I live in a rural area so finding some items like Thai peppers is difficult. I used Japanese peppers often used in Mexican cuisine. This seems to be fine.

    4. Yggy

      Reply

      This dish rocks! I considered skipping the dipping sauce but that’s crazy talk. It ALL works well TOGETHER. I don’t like mint in my food but it’s awesome here. My hubby ate it like a caveman. I doubled everything to make it dinner. Must add to list of awesome dishes!

    6. Chith

      Reply

      This is larb in a Malaysian way? As said, larb is a Lao famous food. When we talk about Lao food or Lao people, we need tot alk about “padek” (fermented fish), which is an ingreedient that cannot be missed in Lao larb. I dont remember putting sugar (and this much!)in larp.

      • Rasa Malaysia

        Reply

        Chith, this larb recipe is adapted from a food magazine. I have never had lao larb, so if you can share the really authentic recipe, I’d appreciate it.

        • Rob

          Reply

          The food magazine is wrong. This is more like san choy bau than Larb. Larb has a definite sour taste to it, and is quite spicy. If you threw the dipping sauce into the larb, you’d be much closer to the real thing. But still nowhere close to the authentic Laos or Isan versions. Do some research instead of relying on a food magazine.

    7. Bite and Sip via Facebook

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      Not even 30 minutes, it takes less time. Absolutely delicious! I make this quite often and everyone loves it

    8. karipedas

      Reply

      The one most important ingredient missing from your larb recipes is roasted rice powder. Nonetheless, I am sure it still tasted great as all your recipes are. You can either make your own rice powder by dry roasting glutinous rice (or called sweet rice in US) and then grinding it to a fine powder, or just buy it ready roasted and ground from any Vietnamese or Thai grocery store. Also try roasted duck larb or fish larb — the latter is excellent. I have been kitchen-testing tofu and tempe larb for my vegetarian friends –w ill let you know once I perfected these! I ALWAYS enjoyed your terrific blog. So proud of you as another fellow Malaysian! Ciao…

      • Rasa Malaysia

        Reply

        The roasted rice powder is in the recipe, listed as long grain rice, but method says to make it into roasted rice powder. ;)

    10. Anna

      Reply

      Hi – I’ve only had beef or chicken larb since I don’t eat pork. I assume the recipe is the same, just swap out the meat. Can you recommend a brand of fish sauce? There are so many type of fish sauce out there its hard to figure out which is the right type for this kind of salad. Thanks.

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