Crispy rice salad with herbs, onion, and crunchy garnish on a plain plate.

Nam khao

Laos · Southeast Asia

Short description
This rice salad is crunchy, tangy, herbal, and usually wrapped in lettuce or eaten with fresh greens.
Ingredients
Crispy rice, fermented pork sausage, coconut, red curry paste, egg, scallions, cilantro, mint, peanuts, lime, fish sauce, chile, and lettuce.
Cultural note
It is often served as a shared appetizer or party dish, with diners scooping the crispy rice mixture into leaves.
Common misconception
It is not plain fried rice; the rice is fried into crisp pieces and then broken into a dressed salad.
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image credit

Nam khao tod | crispy rice salad

creator:
T.Tseng
source:
Flickr
license:
CC BY 2.0
modified:
Copied from Flickr and center-cropped/resized/re-encoded for Gochizu; no other edits.

audio credit

voice:
marin (gpt-4o-mini-tts)
source:
OpenAI API Text to Speech
modified:
AI-generated voice audio.