Lam-peuak-dorng

Name (Thai)

ลำเผือกดอง

Name (English)

Fermented taro leaf stalk

Local name

Kaan-peuak-dorng

Product

Vegetable

Ingredients

Young taro leaf stalk: Colocasia esculenta (Peuak). Salt and rice wash water.

Fermentation

5 days.

Storage life

15 days.

Microorganisms

該当なし

Not available

Properties

Light purple semi-solid, having a sour and salty taste.

Method

1. Peel the young taro leaf stalks to remove the outer skin and cut into short portions 2.5-3" long. 2. Add the salt (about 2.5% by weight of the taro stalks), and knead the taro stalks until soft. 3. Pack the mixed ingredients in an earthen jar and, rice wash water, and leave to ferment at room temperature for 5 days. 4. When the product is mature it can be kept as such, but for eating, rice wash water is added.

Production

At home level.

Consumption

1. Eat with Nam-prik 2. As a main ingredient in cooking spicy soup.