Green Bean Salad with Chicken (Lawar Ayam)
The basic ingredients for lawar are: traditional Balinese herbs such as kunyit, shrimp paste, salt and ground pepper, galangal and other roots, grated coconut, green beans, boiled young jack fruit and occasionally, sing kong leaves, all chopped up and blended together.
Balinese Lawar
It distinguishes the type lawar meat – chicken, duck, beef, pork, turtle, or even dragonfly. Although it is considered a delicacy ceremony on time, happy turtle lawar is becoming less common. Dragonfly lawar is very unusual because it takes so much time and money because you use so many dragonflies to fill you up! Most raw lawar has mixed with blood, but not all Balinese as these and many prefer their lawar vegetarian.
You’ll know when it’s lawar time from the early morning chatter of knives on Chopping boards. It’s always the men who make lawar, seated in a circle at sunrise, chopping, chatting, and Mashing, between sipping strong coffee and sweet toking on clove cigarettes.
INGREDIENTS:
3 cups blanched long bean cut in ½ cm slices
½ cups grated coconut, roasted
6 clove garlic, peeled, sliced and fried
6 – 8 shallots, peeled, sliced and fried
2 large red chilies, seeded and cut in fine strips
4 – 6 bird’s-eye chilies, finely sliced
3 tsp fried chili
2 tbsp chicken spice paste
Fried shallots to garnish
DRESSING:
250g boneless chicken, minced
2tbsp chicken spice paste
1tsp freshly squeezed limejuice
1tsp salt
½tsp black peppercorns, crushed
Banana leaf cut in 30 cm (12 in) square
HOW TO MAKE:
Combine beans, coconut, garlic, shallots, chilies all spice paste and chicken in a large bowl and mix well.
To prepare the dressing, combine with mince chicken 2 tbsp of chicken spice paste and mix well. Place minced chicken in the longitudinal center of banana leaf and roll up very tight. Place banana leaf roll on roll of aluminum foil and quite tight. Turn sides simultaneously in opposite directions to tighten the roll. Steam-roll for 20 minutes. Remove aluminum foil and banana leaves, breaking with fork to its original form minced.
Combine mince chicken with bean mixture; season to taste with salt and pepper lime juice. Garnish with crispy fried shallots.
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