WHAT IS LAO SUKIYAKI?

Lao food has various traditional noodle soup dishes, but Lao sukiyaki doesn’t get enough love. It is a dish that combines a delicious peanut based sauce with bone broth and typically has seafood and other meats in it. This is the only Lao noodle dish that uses glass noodles.

If you are familiar with the word “sukiyaki", it is often associated with Japanese sukiyaki but these are very different dishes. The Japanese sukiyaki uses a soy sauce based broth to cook its proteins and vegetables.

MAKING THE BROTH

The bone broth can be made with your preferred protein. This recipe uses frozen beef bones and cook it in boiling water for ten minutes to get rid of the scum and blood. Strain the water out and rinse the bones in clean water and then cook it in new boiling water with the aromatics and seasonings for one hour. The longer you cook it the better it will get. You can also cook it in a pressure cooker for 30 minutes to save time.

MAKING THE SAUCE

Making an incredible sauce will give you a delicious dish! Make sure to dry saute the sesame seeds until you can smell the aroma. You want to also dry saute the dried small shrimp. A strong food processor will help blend all the ingredients until it becomes a thick creamy peanut butter sauce. In a separate pan, saute the garlic and shallots with oil and then add the coconut milk. The final sauce step is to add the peanut butter sauce, red bean curd, seasonings and mix well.