So here is a recipe for cooked Lap.
Ingredients:
-- 2 whole skinless chicken breasts, finely minced
-- 5 round eggplants, broiled until blackened
-- 3 small heads of garlic and 2 shallots, broiled in their skins till browned
-- 3 dried chilies, broiled till brittle
-- 2 slices galangal
-- ¼ pint "or padek" or "nam pa" (Lao fish sauce)
-- 1 cup chicken broth
-- 3 small heads of garlic, peeled, chopped and fried till gold then drained on paper
-- 3 Kaffir lime leaves
-- 1 cup chopped scallions and cilantro
-- 1 cup of dry rice, toasted in a hot dry pan, then blended to a fine powder.
Directions:
-- Dry fry the chicken in a hot pan till opaque. Then pound with the next four ingredients together until well incorporated and crumbly.
-- Add the rice powder, the fish sauce, enough chicken broth to loosen the mass, then add the fried garlic.
-- Pile in the center of a platter and surround with the scallions, the cilantro, Kaffir lime leaves and lettuce leaves.
-- Place a spoonful onto the center of a lettuce leaf, roll up and eat, with a chili sauce dip if desired. Source: http://www.upi.com/Consumer_Health_Daily/Reports/2007/05/03/eat_to_live_ill_have_the_ant_egg_soup/