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Burmese Tea Leaf Salad - Laphet Thoke

Burmese Tea Leaf Salad - Laphet Thoke is a well-known tea leaf salad you can make at home. It is highly nutritious as it contains a mixture of green vegetables, nuts, and other seeds for perfect flavoring.

Course Salad

Cuisine Asian

Keyword Asian, Burmese Tea Leaf Salad, salad, Tea Leaf

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 10

Total Time 20

Author Muhammad Kashif

Servings People

Calories 148kcal

Ingredients

For Leaf Dressing

2 tbsp loose green tea leaves can be sencha or Dragonwell
1 clove garlic, chopped coarsely
2 cup boiling water
3 tbsp fried garlic oil
½ tsp salt
1 tsp white vinegar (distilled)

For Salad

1 ½ cups roughly chopped cherry tomato
4 cups shredded green cabbage
¼ cup jalapeno or serrano pepper can be seeded or minced
¼ cup chopped and toasted peanuts
¼ cup fried garlic
¼ cup yellow split peas
¼ tsp red pepper
½ cup coarsely chopped fresh cilantro
2 tbsp dried shrimp powder
1 tbsp lime juice
2 tsp fish sauce
1 tbsp canola or garlic oil

Instructions

To prepare leaf dressing, take a bowl and add tea leaves; add water and soak the leaves overnight. This step helps remove the bitterness of the tea leaves, and keeping them overnight will make them soft and tastier.
Ensure picking out twigs and hard stems from the leave. Take a filter, remove the whole leaves, and rinse it properly. Transfer the leaves to the bowl and fill it with water again. Remove the water the next day and wash it again and again with fresh or boiled water to remove all the debris.
Now remove the leaves from the bowl into another bowl and remove all the water absorbed properly. Add garlic and salt into the food processor along with the rinsed tea leaves. Also, add 3 tbsp of oil and vinegar into the processor and grind the whole mixture properly.
Now it’s time to assemble the ingredients into the bowl. Create the bed of cabbage and then add the dressing above the cabbage carefully. Both the cabbage and tea leaf dressing must be at the center.
Add vegetables individually; add piles of tomatoes first, then jalapeno, peanuts, fried garlic, serrano, and other ingredients.
Add oil to these ingredients and sprinkle with the lime juice and fish sauce on top of the recipe. You can also sprinkle the cilantro on top with the shrimp powder, shrimp powder, and red chili pepper. Now take a fork and start mixing the ingredients properly.

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