Friday, June 11, 2010

Miang Kham

Very delicious recipe that has directly come from then Kitchen of Thai just enjoy a different taste to make your day special, so just go for this mouth watering recipe to make you feel delighted.

Miang Kham

All you need :

For Filling:

* 3/4 cup grated coconut

* 6 tablespoons roasted peanuts

* 6 tablespoons of shallots,peeled and cut into small cubes

* 4-5 Thai chilli peppers that are cut into small slivers

* 6 tablespoons small dried shrimps

* 4 oz fresh ginger, peeled and cut into small cubes

* 2 small limes unpeeled


For Sauce:

* 2 fresh galangal, should be cut into slivers and roasted until fragrant

* 1 tablespoon shrimp paste roasted until fragrant

* 2 oz shallots, peeled and coarsely cut

* 1/4 cup grated coconut, roasted in a low-heat oven until lightly brown

* 4 small dried shrimps

* 1.5 teaspoons fresh ginger, sliced

* salt for seasoning

* 8 oz palm sugar

* 2 tablespoons table sugar


How to make:

* This is not a point, it is a subtitle. There is no need for a bullet here.

* Take a mortar pound together the shallots and galangal until fine .

* Then add Add roasted shrimp paste, coconut, ginger and dried shrimp, and continue pounding make it smooth

* How remove the mixture and keep mit in a bowl with 1.5 cups of water, then boil.

* On medium heat along with palm sugar and table sugar, make the heat simmer and let the mixture be of one cup.

* Add salt and remove from heat and shift it into bowl.

* To wrap use lettuce or spinach leaves .



Serving: Roast the coconut in a low-heat oven until lightly brown. Spoon the roasted coconut into a serving plate. In separate small bowls, arrange each filling ingredient listed above. With a fresh wrapping leaf in hand, fold it once across the bottom then sideways to form a pocket. Place about 1 teaspoon roasted coconut in the leaf together with a small amount of each filling to create a bite-sized quantity. Spoon the sauce on top, pop in your mouth and enjoy!

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

BBQ Chicken Salad, Thai-American Style

A recipe directly from Thai-American" section, as the salad is very nutritious for health, a wonderful taste that is going to fill your mouth with a new spice and taste, so if you wanna make your day very special then just try : BBQ Chicken Salad, Thai-American Style.

BBQ Chicken Salad
All you need:
1.) 1 can of coconut milk
2.) 1 tablespoon of lime juice
3.) 1 tablespoon of curry powder
4.) 1 broiler of fryer chicken
5.) 3 clove of garlic, minced
6.) 1 tablespoon of fish sauce
7.) 1/4 cup of cilantro leaves, chopped
8.) 12 red lettuce leaves, rinsed
9.) 1 large red bell pepper, seeded and sliced
10.) 1 recipe Sweet and Sour Cilantro Dressing,
11.) 1/3 cup of finely chopped peanuts
12.) 1 medium head of lettuce, shredded
13.) 1/2 cup mint leaves, torn


How to make:
1. Start with rinsing chicken,pat dry. then cut it into two halves ,take a large bowl whisk curry powder into coconut milk.In lime juice blend it with garlic, brown sugar,fish sauce and cilantro ,then add chicken turning to coat in marinade.

2. Then cover it and refrigerate it for four hours, now on oven now on oven broiler put the chicken make sure skin side down.

3. About 10 min, turn it after,Cook until juices run clear around 30 min, cut the cool chicken into strips.

4. Now to dress it you need to prepare and arrange lettuce leaves on 6 plates, then add and combine strands of lettuce, along with bell paper and mint, then make portion onto lettuce leaves, on the top scatter chicken, then sprinkle peanuts and serve it.

Friday, June 4, 2010

Thai Style Rissoto

This recipe has directly come from Thai kitchen to make your day, very tasty and delicious recipe well this recipe is very fast to cook and good to eat, a very simple vegetarian style dish, so try this very yummy and mouth watering recipe if you have got bored of you daily stuff cooking, so for change try this Thai Style Rissoto to have an ultimate delight.

Thai Style Rissoto
All you need:

* one tablespoon of chopped shallots
* two cups of Thai jasmine rice
* one tablespoon of sliced garlic
* one tablespoon of ground ginger
* two tablespoons of Thai chile peppers, sliced


Then a quantity of chicken stock equal to the volume of water that is specified by the rice cooker that is needed to cook two cups of rice.

How to make:

* Put the rice in the cooker, then stir it after that fry rest of the ingredients leave the stock.
* Add all the ingredients in cooker and cook them.
* After a particular cooking time the dish would be ready.
* To give yellow colour to rice you can add a pinch of turmeric powder and saffron.

Enjoy!

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Thai Ice Cream w/Basil Seeds and Chocolate-Ginger Ganache

Well the summers are on the height and when it comes to ice-cream then the mouth starts watering automatically, In Thailand ice cream is served very frequently, a wonderful recipe of ice cream using coconut, to give it an interesting texture it adds sweet basil seeds along with subtle fruit flavour, a wonderful desert to give you perfect delight .So try this.

Thai Ice Cream
All you need:
1 1/4 cups of heavy cream
3/4 cup of sugar
2 3/4 cups of coconut milk
2 large eggs
1/2 tablespoon of sweet basil seeds

How to make:
Take a saucepan add cream, sugar and coconut and boil, then remove from heat and let it cool down. Take another bowl beat eggs well, add and beat coconut mixture to eggs, then ladle a bit of coconut milk in a bowl, as this milk should
not be hot other wise it will cook the eggs. Keep adding coconut milk gradually, until every thing gets mixed, let it be cool properly and chill it in the fridge. Take a small loaf pan pour the cold mixture, then cover it with cling wrap and remove any air . About two hours freeze it, then beat the mixture in a food processor and make it smooth, put back into the pan, then separately, add 1/2 tablespoon sweet basil seeds to 1/2 cup water. Stir and let the seeds expand, then gently fold the basil seeds in to an ice cream and stir well. Now place cling wrap back over the pan, make it air tight and freeze.

Thai Ice Cream
Chocolate-ginger ganache:

All you need:
8 ounces of semisweet chocolate, chopped
1 teaspoon of ginger powder
One 13 of can coconut milk
1/3 cup of palm sugar

Procedure
Mix ginger powder, coconut milk and palm sugar in a saucepan. On a medium heat bring to simmer, stir untill palm sugar dissolves, remove it from heat , then add chocolate and whisk, till the mixture becomes smooth and melts, it will make 2 1/2 cups.
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Now spoon the ice cream into a dish, the add Thai fragrant cookies, wonderful smoky aroma really ties this dessert together, then Drizzle warm ganache on cookies and ice cream. Yummy Enjoy!

Monday, May 31, 2010

Cotton Fish with Green Mango Salad, Pla Dook Foo

An excellent and mouth watering recipe named : Cotton Fish with GreenMango Salad, Pla Dook Foo, that is prepared with freshwater fish in a unique way, in this tempting recipe the fish puffs up like a cotton so if you are a fish eater this recipe is going to tempt you really,for excellent results use catfish . To make it all you need:

Oil for frying
Sliced shallots
1 freshwater fish of medium sized
Roasted peanuts
2 tablespoons of sugar
3 tablespoons of lime juice
2 tablespoons fish sauce
Shredded green sour mango
Sliced fresh Thai chile peppers

Procedure:

Start cooking the fish on a barbeque,take out the head and tail along with the bones, . Vigorously pound the fish in a mortar and pound it properly, Then take a skillet put the pounded fish and hot oil, after two minutes , keep it on a dish add some peanuts . Then top it up with a mixture of shredded green mango,fish sauce ,
sliced shallot,lime juice and fish sauce . Enjoy!

Friday, May 28, 2010

Fried Fish with chili sauce

If you are in a mood to have fish, and want to have some different
flavour then here a recipe that has directly come from Thai kitchen to
make you day, in this recipe Plaa Raad Prik it is a whole fish, this
dish usually be eaten as larger meal. If you want to have a new
flavour you can add curry or soup , it is a home style recipe, the
taste is so different so try this very yummy Fried Fish with chili
sauce
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Fried Fish with chili sauce

All you need is:

1-2 cups of vegetable oil for deep frying
1/2 cup of garlic cloves
1 teaspoon of salt
1 whole red grouper 1-1.5lbs (.6-.7kg)
1/2 cup of tamarind paste (1/4 cup tamarind pulp + 1/4 cup hot water, squeezed)
2 tablespoons of fish sauce
A few sprigs of coriander
1/4 cup palm sugar
1/2 cup of small thai chilies

How to make:

Start with smashing the garlic cloves, other wise you can use
thin-skinned Thai garlic, skins needed to be removed,add chillies and
smash.
Make tamarind paste, add tamarind in hot water and squish it with your
fingers to make paste, then strain it.
Now remove the scales and clean the guts of fish, wash it and dry,
add salt now make 3- deep slices on the both sides of fish.
Now deep fry it on medium heat make it brown, keep it aside, then
remove out the oil from wok but you can use it to prepare sauce
Take a pan Add 1/2 cup of the used oil, now fry chillies and garlic
make it fragrant on medium heat.
Keep stirring to prevent from burning,make sure the garlic should not be brown.
When the fragrance starts coming add tamarind water, fish sauce and
palm sugar, make it boil up to 1-2 min.
Add sauce and garnish the fish with a few sprigs of coriander..
Enjoy!

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Thai Spicy Ground Chicken and Toasted Rice, "Larb Gai"

Very yummy and delicious and mouth watering recipe from the Thai kitche, very quick to make and often extremely spicy, it can be combined with lime juice and mint leaves to have an exotic flavour, and really this recipe has got its place in menus in America as "chicken salad Thai style, it is a kind of salad, rather chicken It can also be made with pork and beef, you can also add beanthread noodles, so to get a different taste try Thai Spicy Ground Chicken and Toasted Rice, "Larb Gai".

LArb Gai

All you need :
2 tablespoons of sliced shallot
1/4 cup of chopped mint leaves
1 lb ground chicken
2 tablespoons finely chopped spring onion
2 tablespoons of ground Thai chile
3 tablespoons of roasted rice powder
2-3 tablespoons of fish sauce
3 tablespoons of lime juice

You can add cabbage, parsley,green beans,sliced radish,coriander leaves and cucumber to garnish Ground the chicken, cook it in a pan using 2 tablespoons lime juice. Heat should be moderate, stir. Now transfer it to medium bowl, then add rest of the ingredients and mix properly. Now add fish sauce. It is needed to served with fresh vegetables and freshly-steamed sticky rice. You can also use chicken giblets and add it like other ingredients. Enjoy!