Lahpet thoke

Myanmar (Burma) · Southeast Asia

Tea-leaf salad with fermented leaves, crunchy beans, seeds, tomato, lime, and shredded vegetables.
Lahpet thoke

Lahpet thoke combines pickled tea leaves with crunchy accompaniments. In her account of Burmese cooking, Naomi Duguid describes a mixture with roasted soybeans, peanuts, fried garlic and sesame, often served at the end of a meal.[1]

SBS’s published salad preparation uses tomatoes, dried shrimp floss, crushed peanuts, fried ginger, peanut oil and fish sauce. Its fried mixture combines lima beans and chickpeas with sesame and roasted peanuts. A portion is mixed with the tea leaves and the other ingredients before serving.[2]

References

Sources checked:

  1. In the kitchen: Burmese — Naomi Duguid / SBS
  2. Pickled tea leaf salad (lahpet thoke) — SBS Food / Feast magazine
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