Spicy Chicken Soup (Gang Pa Gai

Prepare:

500 g. Chicken meat stick with its bone
1/2 cup cut pumpkin
1/2 cup sliced galingale (long shape)
1/4 cup basil or sweet basil
2 groups young pepper corn
1 tbsp. sliced sweet pepper
1/4 cup Solanum torvum
5 pieces kaffir lime leaves
1/2 cup cut wing bean
1/2 cup cut eggplant
3 tbsp. fish sauce
1 tsp. sugar

Paste: 

15 whole guinea-peppers
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tbsp. sliced lemongrass
1 tsp. minced galangal
1 tbsp. roughly cut galingale
3 tbsp. cut red onion
1 tsp. basil flower
1 tsp. shrimp paste
Ground all of paste in gradients together

Cooking Instructions:

1. Add 3 cups of water or stock in the pot and turn on the fire. Use medium heat to boil it. Add paste and then wait until it is boiling.

2. Add chicken. I looked up on my dictionary it’s call this type of chicken domestic flows. The chicken meat is quite rough and more difficult to chew.

If you can’t find this type please don’t worry. Just add whatever you have, beef or pork will be fine.

3. Cook the meat for 10 minutes.

4. Add pumpkin and cook for 10 more minutes.

5. Now, add wing bean, eggplant, fish sauce, sugar, pepper corn, galingale, sweet pepper, and basil.

6. Keep adding fish sauce until it tastes perfect. I can’t tell you the right amount because you may like it more or less salty.

7. Serve with hot jasmine rice or rice noodle

Thai Food Recipe: Bamboo Salad!

Prepare:

2 cups boiled and scraped Bamboo
1 cup Bai Ya Nang (Look at my post here to see what kind of green leaves I use)

1 tbsp. fish sauce
1 tsp. salt
2 tbsp. Pla rah (fermented fish sauce)
1 tbsp. roasted sesame (then ground it finely, blow out the burnt dust)
2 tbsp. Khao Bue-ah (soaked uncooked rice)
1 tsp. dried chili pepper powder
2 tbsp. mints
2 tbsp. Sliced red onion
1 tbsp. chili peppers (ground)
2 tbsp. Sliced coriander
2 tbsp. Sliced scallion
1 tbsp. Sliced parsley

Cooking Instructions: 

 

1. Boil the bamboo and scraped it with fork. Cut it short about 10cm.

2. Finely ground Khao Bue-ah with Bai Ya nang. Add 1 cup of water and squeeze until you get green juice.

3. Wash scraped bamboo again with clean water and place into the pot.

4. Add green juice, salt, pla rah juice and chili pepper. Boil it with medium heat until it’s boiling.

5. After that, turn off the fire and wait until it’s cool off.

6. Next, add coriander, scallion, parsley, sliced red onion and dried chili peppers. Mix well.

Categorized | baked, fish, lemongrass, sauce, sour and spicy

Pla Raad Sauce Dtakrai
(Baked Whole Fish Dressed with Lemongrass Sauce)

Prepare:

1 whole fish (meduim size of any kind)
1/2 cup sliced lemongrass
20 red chili peppers (more or less as you prefer)
5 Thai white peppers
3 coriander roots (sliced)
5 cloves garlic
1/2 tsp. salt
2 tsp. fish sauce
1 tbsp. oyster sauce
2 tsp. lemon juice
1/4 cup stock
1 tbsp. olive oil

Cooking Instructions:

1. Clean the fish. Wipe the fish with paper towels.

2. Ground coriander roots, 2 cloves garlic, Thai white pepper, and salt altogether.

3. Spread it all over the fish. Leave the fish in refrigerator for 15 minutes.

4. Bake the fish at 350F for about 15 minutes.

5. Ground red chili peppers, lemongrass and 3 cloves garlic together.

6. Heat the pan and put olive oil. When the pan is hot, add paste from number 5 then stir-fry until it smells aromatic.

7. Add stock, fish sauce, oyster sauce. Mix well.

8. Now, dress the sauce over the baked fish. Serve with jasmine rice.

After you clean the fish very well, why is the fishy smell still there? I suggest that you should spread lemon juice all over the fish.Then, the fishy smell will go away.