7 delicious ways to cook with Vietnamese Pepper - La Lot: Quick-n-Fun exotic recipes

🍴 7 delicious ways to cook with Vietnamese Pepper - La Lot: Quick-n-Fun exotic recipes

Piper sarmentosum, also known as Vietnamese Pepper, La Lot, or Wild Betel, is an easy and delicious edible plant to grow. In warm climates, it quickly forms a lush patch of heart-shaped leaves outdoors; in colder areas, grow it in a pot and bring it inside for winter. You can even keep it year-round on a bright windowsill as part of your indoor herb garden.

⭐️ 1. Grilled Beef or Pork La Lot Rolls - Bo La Lot

Mix ground beef or pork with garlic, shallot, lemongrass, fish sauce, a little sugar, and black pepper. Spoon onto La Lot leaves, roll tightly, and grill or pan-sear until browned and fragrant. Serve with rice, or make a noodle bowl with rice vermicelli, cucumber, herbs, peanuts, and dipping sauce.

⭐️ 2. La Lot Egg Omelet

Slice a handful of La Lot leaves and mix with beaten eggs, shallot, black pepper, and a splash of fish sauce. Cook in an oiled skillet until golden on both sides. Add ground pork for a heartier version and serve with jasmine rice.

⭐️ 3. Garlic Shrimp with La Lot

Saute garlic in a little oil, add peeled shrimp, and season with fish sauce, black pepper, and a pinch of sugar. When almost cooked, toss in sliced La Lot and stir-fry just until wilted. Finish with lime and serve over rice.

⭐️ 4. Coconut Chicken & La Lot Curry

Brown bite-size chicken with garlic, ginger, and lemongrass, then add coconut milk and mild curry seasoning. Simmer until tender. Tear in several La Lot leaves during the last few minutes and serve with rice or noodles.

⭐️ 5. Thai Miang Kham Leaf Bites

Top fresh La Lot leaves with toasted coconut, peanuts, diced lime, shallot, ginger, chili, and sweet-savory sauce. Fold each leaf around the filling and eat in one bite - sweet, salty, sour, spicy, crunchy, and herbal all at once.

⭐️ 6. La Lot Chicken Soup

Simmer chicken broth with ginger, garlic, mushrooms, and small pieces of chicken. Season with fish sauce and black pepper. Add torn La Lot leaves just before serving and cook another minute or two to release their wonderful aroma.

⭐️ 7. Crispy La Lot Fritters

Make a light batter with flour, cornstarch, cold water, and salt. Dip whole La Lot leaves and fry until crisp and golden. Serve with sweet chili or lime-fish-sauce dip, or sandwich seasoned pork or shrimp between two leaves for a heartier version.

🏡 Growing tips

Harvest regularly and the plant keeps producing fresh leaves. For especially large, green, juicy and flavorful growth, feed with Sunshine Robusta fertilizer, an excellent choice for organic gardens, herbs, and edibles.

And there are plenty of reasons to keep it growing! La Lot leaves have a mild peppery flavor when fresh and become wonderfully aromatic when cooked. Use them as an herb, seasoning, salad green, or edible wrapper. They're famous in Vietnamese Bo La Lot and are also used in Thai Miang Kham. Just walk outside, pick a handful of leaves, and try one of these delicious recipes.

💡 Despite the common English name "Wild Betel," lá lốt is not the same plant as true betel (Piper betle).
Piper sarmentosum has a gentler, pleasantly peppery flavor and is widely eaten as a culinary leaf in Southeast Asia.

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📚 Learn more:

Piper sarmentosum - Vietnamese pepper - in Plant Encyclopedia
10-minute recipe Bo La Lot with a leaf you’ve never cooked before!
Lalot beef wraps: Quick-n-Fun exotic recipes
Vietnamese Pepper - Lalot food wraps BBQ recipe
How to grow your own Pepper plants. Five most valuable Pipers
How to to get Pepper leaves large and green
9 tropical vegetables to grow indoors, or how to have garden-fresh produce all year
19 delicious authentic Katuk dishes: quick-n-fun exotic recipes

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