27 September 2011
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Egg Sausage
One commenter on my previous entry about making sausage expressed surprise about sausage being a part of Thai cuisine. Sure enough, Thais like stuffed intestines just as much as about everyone else! After posting the entry, though, I learned from a friend about a unique Thai sausage used as an ingredient in a clear soup. The sausage is called “look rok”.
It is made by filling sausage casings (intestines) with uncooked, well-beaten chicken eggs. Then you boil the sausage until the egg firms up. The sausage is then sliced and, if you want to be decorative, the cut ends are scored into quarters. The pieces are added to a clear broth that has minced pork and whole shrimp added to it. Looks quite pretty, doesn’t it? Seems like a lot of work, though, for just one ingredient in the dish.
Comments (14)
I’d like to try some of that! Not sure they have it here in L.A.
I love SE Asian sausages. Very good flavor, imo. I’ve never seen this before though, it’s interesting and pretty for sure.
Hmmm I’ve never tried that. What is the dish called?
woah interesting. I wonder how the texture is?! Looks quite yellow for egg no?
Never tried. I will put it in my order the next time I go out to eat.
Looks good… if only I didn’t know about the casings! Hah!
Looks good. I’ll have to try making some.
I’d say worth the effort. Very pretty, indeed.
Just egg? I think I’d forego the trouble and just make scrambled eggs. hehe. It is pretty… Are you going to give it a try?
huh… interesting. seems much easier to make than an actual sausage, but more time consuming than just scrambling eggs as val pointed out!
Always liked the sausage…what is the one from Laos called…very strong garlic in that one!
@Gentemann - Are you thinking of sai grog?
@kunhuo42 - @murisopsis - Yeah, if you are going to poach or boil or scramble an egg, why stuff it in an intestine first?
@Inciteful - The good news is that these days you can buy it in the store, albeit in an artifical casing, not an intestine.
@Toro69 - Let me know how that works out.
@ZSA_MD - Um, I would suppose you could use non-pork casings, too
@Fatcat723 - Yeah, let’s see if you can find that locally! =D
@yang1815 - Lots of healthy things for chicken to eat here.
@I_love_Burma - the soup is called “gaeng joot look rok”, literally “bland soup with look rok”.
@arenadi - It certainly isn’t the most common type of sausage out there. I wonder what would happen if you made a sausage of boiled egg and ground meat, kind of like those Scotch Eggs?
@CurryPuffy - Head to Thai town and see what you can find.
Oh that’s so interesting. At first I thought it was some type of tofu. What is the texture like?
I just have to say it ‘I love Asian sausages too ;]’