The Delicious Cook in Luang Prabang (Part 1)

fish sauce

🥗Healthier: soy sauce

💰Cheaper: salt + vinegar

Soy sauce is lower in calories and suitable for vegetarians.

sticky rice

🥗Healthier: quinoa

💰Cheaper: white rice

Quinoa offers a protein boost while white rice is more accessible.

coconut milk

🥗Healthier: almond milk

💰Cheaper: milk + cornstarch

Almond milk provides a dairy-free alternative with fewer calories.

pork

🥗Healthier: chicken

💰Cheaper: turkey

Chicken is leaner and turkey is often less expensive.

Check into the hotel in Luang Prabang and enjoy the surroundings.

Visit the morning market to see fresh produce, meats, and fish.

Start a cooking class with a chef and sous chef.

Make rice crepes using a mixture of rice flour, cornstarch, and water, pouring a ladle of the mixture into a pan and covering it to steam.

Prepare the filling for the rice crepes by stir-frying vegetables and adding them to the crepes once cooked.

Make chicken larb by mixing minced chicken with ginger, garlic, shallots, and kaffir lime leaves, adding lime juice for flavor.

Rehydrate dried chilies and blend them with onions and garlic to create a chili paste.

Heat coconut milk in a wok, then add the chili paste and cooked minced chicken, seasoning with soy sauce and sugar.

Taste the mixture to adjust flavors before serving.

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