Minced beef with kachin "shalap" leaves recipe

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  • Cuisine: Burmese

Ingredients

700g of Rump, round or topside steak
1 bunch shalap leaves
3 tsp coriander seeds
10 dried chillies
2 ½ tsp pepper corn (Sechwan pepper)
1 tsp salt
1 tbsp ginger, chopped
3 -4 cloves of garlic, sliced
2 tablespoon chopped coriander
4-6 saw leaf (thorny coriander)
6 tbsp olive oil
1-2 lemon grass
5 fresh chillies (medium hot to taste)
150g of chopped mixed herbs – spearmint, False mint Cilantro, Basil
1 Fresh lemon/ lime
Salt and ground pepper to taste
Rice wine
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Preparation

Slice the shalap leaves finely. In a mortar and pestle, place the pepper seeds, coriander seeds, dried chilli and salt and begin to pound.  Add the ginger, garlic, chopped saw leaf and fresh coriander and continue to pound until it begins to look like paste.

Chop the beef into very small pieces and place in a deep saucepan.  Add chopped Shalap leaves and the paste.  Add olive oil and 1 small glass of rice wine and mix together thoroughly.  

Cover with lid and cook until it becomes a bit dry (Stir often during cooking). Serve while hot.

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Comments (4)

   
11 Oct 2009 05:26 AEST
Kingston
hello John ... As it shows in the video you chop up the herbs and ad them to the mince.. with rice wine... If you don't have rice wine use dry white wine.. I made this for lunch today and its awesome!
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11 Oct 2009 12:55 AEST
John
The recipe lists chopped mixed herbs, lemon grass, fresh chillies and lemon/lime, but doesn't specify what to do with them. They don't seem to included in the video clip either ! Perhaps I am missing something obvious, but the recipe appears incomplete.
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09 Oct 2009 09:20 AEST
Sue
Anyone know the latin name of this plant or where I can get a plant or seeds.Thanks
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09 Oct 2009 11:54 AEST
Tom Tom
Redhill
Shalap
Does anybody know another name for "Shalap"? Scientific or other common names.
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