Laotian Chicken Laap

I like to try some foods from different country and Winnipeg is the best place for that. You name it! Indian food, Filipino, Vietnamese, Malaysian, Laotian, Thailand, Italian, Mexican, Chinese, Korean, France, Spanish, Portugese, Japanese, Ukrainian, etc...all you'll find it in here! Except Indonesian...so I'm expecting one day there is Indonesian open Indonesian restaurant...it would be awesome! First time went to Laotian restaurant calls the Taste of Laos, I didn't have any clue what I'm going to eat. We asked the waiter and he said the most popular Laotian food is Laap and beef and vegetable stir fry. So we tried both of them. The stir fry is like any other stir fry except they have really tangy taste, I think they put some herbs in it . While the laap is excellent, it tasted really Herby and definitely healthy food. Afterward I really want to make it by myself and started to search around in the internet and found a perfect recipe. So here it is the recipe which I have modified it:

 Ingredients:

2 chicken breast, slice it and bake it in the preheat oven for 30 minutes in 350 degrees F

10 cm lemongrass

2 shallots

3 cloves of garlic

A handful of cilantro

A handful of mint leaves

A handful of sticky rice, toast it and grind it to get sticky rice powder

4 tbs fish sauce

3 red Thai chili peppers, finely chopped

2 tsp black pepper

1 lemon, squeeze it to get lemon juice

Couple of iceberg lettuce

Sticky rice

Direction:

Put baked chicken breast, cilantro, mint leaves, lemongrass, shallots, garlic in a food processor to get finely chopped.

Take it from the food processor, mix altogether with fish sauce, chili peppers, black pepper, lemon juice and mix it thoroughly.

We usually eat it wrapped with iceberg lettuce and complement with sticky rice.

Serving 2 people