Pork Larb Lettuce Wrap - cooking recipe

Ingredients

Filling:
1 T Veg oil
4 garlic cloves finely minced
1 t sugar
1/2# ground pork
1 t fish sauce
salt & pepper
1 T toasted long grain rice
Dipping Suace
2 T fresh lime juice
2 T fish sauce
1 T sugar
2 thinly sliced Thai Chiles
1 T water
Serve:
1 thinly sliced Thai Chile
1/4 thinly sliced red onon
1/4 c each torn thai basil, genoa basil, mint
Boston lettuce leaves

Preparation

Filling:
in a skillet, heat veg oil. add garlic; cook over moderately low heat, stirring a few times until golden brown (+/- 1 minute).
Add sugar, cook for 20 seconds
Add pork and cook over moderately high heat until no pink.
Add fish sauce, season w salt & pepper

Toast Rice:
med skillet over moderate heat, shake pan until browned +/- 3 min, cool, grind to a powder

Dipping Sauce:
combine all ingredients, stir until sugar dissolves

Serve:
off heat, add \"Serve\" ingredients to filling, sprinkle with ground rice

spoon filling into lettuce leaves, add desired dipping sauce and eat like a taco