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Lalampa

Grilled Sticky Rice & Salmon Cake

Ingredients

Rice

  • 400 g short grain rice/glutinous rice/sticky rice soak in water for 2 H
  • 250 ml water
  • 5 pouches of green tea
  • 1 screw-pine fragrant leaf tied in knot
  • 300 ml canned coconut milk from 400 ml can
  • salt

Spice Paste

  • 1-2 cm ginger skinned
  • 2-4 Asian shallots depending how big your shallots are
  • 4 bird eye chilies
  • 1 tbsp store bought minced garlic
  • 1 lemongrass slice thinly the white part
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • 1/2 tsp salt

Lalampa

  • 1 can salmon drain, 287 g
  • 1 tbsp lime juice
  • 1 to mato cubed
  • 5 stalks basil leaves wash and chop (stalks and leaves)
  • 3 stalks mint leaves wash and chop (use only the leaves)
  • banana leaves for wrapping

Instructions

Rice

  • Drain and rinse rice, steam for 10 mins
  • Meanwhile, bring water to a boil then turn off the heat. Add in tea pouches, let steep for 5 mins, discard
  • Put aside about 50 ml of the tea water
  • Mix in coconut milk with 200 ml of the tea water
  • Drop in fragrant leaf and a pinch or two of salt, bring back to a boil
  • Stir in steamed rice, and steam again for another 30 mins

Spice Paste

  • Using a food processor (or pestle and mortar), blend all ingredients into fine paste (water maybe added, about 50 ml, to smooth the process while blending)

Lalampa

  • On nonstick pan, saute paste without oil until fragrant
  • Add in salmon followed with mint, basil and tomato, stir to combine
  • Pour in the reserved 50 ml tea along with 100 ml coconut milk, cook until liquid thickened and almost all evaporated
  • Wash and dry banana leaves
  • Place steamed rice on it, spoon some salmon as filling, then roll
  • Secure rolled cake with toothpick
  • Turn on your broiler and broil cake until banana leaves browning
  • Serve immediately or at room temperature