Or lam
Laos · Southeast Asia
- Short description
- This stew is herbal and gently peppery, thickened with vegetables and sticky rice rather than cream.
- Ingredients
- Meat, eggplant, mushrooms, yard-long beans, greens, dill, lemongrass, chile, pepperwood, sticky rice, fermented fish sauce, and garlic.
- Cultural note
- It is associated with upland cooking where forest herbs and pepperwood shape the flavor more than heavy spice.
- Common misconception
- The woody pepper is a cooking ingredient, not a garnish; it gives the stew its distinctive aroma and tingle.
image credit
- creator:
- Jpatokal
- source:
- Wikimedia Commons
- license:
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- modified:
- Copied from Wikimedia Commons 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
- license:
- OpenAI API generated audio
- modified:
- AI-generated voice audio.