Saturday, May 31, 2008

Spicy Thai Beef with Fresh Garlic Salad ยำเนื้อย่างกระเทียมสด

This Thai Recipe serve 2

Thai Food Ingredients

1/2 lbs beef tenderloin
1 tablespoon dark soy sauce
Thai Food Seasoning Sauce Ingredients
3 small red or green chilies (slivered)
4 garlic clove (finely chopped)
2 teaspoon lime juice
2 tablespoons fish sauce
1 1/2 teaspoons sugar
1 tablespoon clean water

Thai Food Directions

marinade steak with dark soy sauce and leave about 1 hour
Grill steak until medium done and slice about 1/5 inch long
Prepare dressing: Combine all seasoning sauce ingredients in a jar or bowl; mix well. Set aside.
Combine salad mixture, steak and dressing with sliced tomatoes and sliced cucumber.

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Thai sticky rice recipe ข้าวเหนียว




็Make stick rice at home is very easy, we don't need special equipment at all.
Just follow this direction

Method: Rinse rice 2-3 times, until water runs clear. Place rinsed rice in a bowl and fill with cool water so the water is approximately 2-3 inches above the rice . Let the rice stand in water for about 2 hours. Drain the rice, place it in a strainer. Put 6-8 cups of water in big pot and bring to a boil. Then place a strainer on a pot. Be sure the bottom of the bamboo steamer does not touch the boiling water. Steam the rice or 45 minutes (or until tender).

Friday, April 4, 2008

Pad See-Ew Mama ม่า มาผัดซีอิ๊ว





(Thai Stir-Fried Soy Sauce Instant Noodle with Mix Vegetable, Chicken, and Eggs)

This Thai recipe serves 2
Ingredients
1. 1 bunch of broccoli (any others vegetable of your preference), stemmed, plucked, and washed (To prepare, remove bottom inch of stems where it tends to get woody. Cut in 2-inch sections, keeping flowers and leaves.)

2. 2 packages of instant noodle

3. small chicken breasts or any other meat of your preference

4. 2 eggs

5. 5 cloves garlic, minced

6. oyster sauce, to taste

7. hoisin sauce, to taste


Thai Cooking Instructions

Boil instant noodle until solf but not too solf
Turn wok or saute pan to high heat. Beat three eggs and to wok, swirling wok so the eggs cook in a thin layer. When fully cooked, set aside.

Add a little bit of sesame oil to the wok, stir-fry garlic and chicken. When chicken is near done, add both oyster and hoisin sauces. I did a 2/3 oyster sauce, 1/3 hoisin sauce ratio. Be a little generous with the sauce because it'll have to coat the noodles and broccoli later.

When chicken and sauce is thoroughly mixed, add noodles and make sure sauce is evenly coated.

Add broccoli and mix again thoroughly.

Add the cooked eggs that had been set aside and mix again. You want to do this last so the eggs don't get mushy and overcooked, and the moisture from the broccoli doesn't make them soggy.

The noodle and chicken will have absorbed the savoriness of the oyster sauce and the sweetness of the hoisin sauce and the Thai broccoli gives a nice crunch. Can you see the smoke curls coming off a freshly sauted batch?

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Thai Chicken Green Curry (Gaeng Kiao Wan Gai แกงเขียวหวานไก่)


Cooking Thai food


This Thai recipe serve 2

Ingredients

1 cup chicken

1 cup coconut thick cream

3 cups coconut milk

3 coriander roots1 tsp. pepper

2 cloves garlic4 tbsp. fish sauce

1/3 cup crisp eggplant

1/3 cup sweet basil

4 red chili peppers (cut diagonally)

1/2 cup sliced diagonally galingale

Paste Ingredients

25 green chili peppers (more or less as you prefer)

1 tbsp. coriander seed

1 tbsp. cumin powder

10 dried peppers

3 red onions5 cloves garlic

2 tsp. minced galangal

1 tsp. salt

1 tbsp. shrimp paste

1 tbsp. sliced lemongrass

1 tsp. sliced kaffir lime skin

1 tbsp. minced galingale (peel off the skin first)

Thai Cooking Instructions

1. Ground all the paste ingredients together and finely. To skip this step you can get instant green curry paste from the store. It's up to you.
However, it is different between fresh paste and packed paste. :)
2. Ground coriander roots, dried peppers and garlic. Then mix it with the chicken.
3. Boil 1 cup of coconut cream with low heat until it's boiling. Add paste and keep stirring until it smells nice.
4. Then, put chicken and add the rest of coconut milk. Cook for 15 minutes. Don't stir.
5. After that, add fish balls, cooked chicken's blood, eggplant, sliced galingale, sweet basil and red chili peppers.
6. Turn of the fire.

Thai cooking Tip!
To make the curry real green, add 1/4 cup sweet basil while you ground the paste.

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Thai Satay and Spicy Peanut sauce

Cooking Thai food

Thai Satay of course is originally an Indonesian/Malay dish, but it has been in Southern Thailand for a very long time. This is a Thai version. You can of course also make the same recipe with chunks of beef or pork.

This Thai recipe serve 2

Ingredients
1 teaspoon coriander seed
1 teaspoon cumin seed1 tablespoon chopped garlic
1 tablespoon fresh grated ginger1 pound chicken breasts, skinned, boned, and cut into bite sized pieces.
2 tablespoons fish sauce
1 tablespoon curry powerpinch turmeric powderas only a colorant, so very little!8 tablespoons coconut milk
3 tablespoons plam sugar

Thai Cooking Instructions
The chicken is beaten flat, using the flat of the blade of a heavy cleaver or using a meat tenderizing mallet. You can also use a rolling pin.The coriander and cumin are toasted and then crushed in a mortar and pestleThe ingredients are then combined to form a marinade, and the chicken is marinated overnight. The pieces of chicken are then threaded on the 10” satay sticks, loosely folding them in half and piercing through the folded meat to forma loose gather.The completed sticks are then grilled, broiled or barbequed on fairly high heat (they taste best done over charcoal, as they absorb the smoke). Turn them regularly and brush them liberally with the remaining marinade.Cooking should take between 5 and 10 minutes depending on the heat of your cooker.

SpicyPeanut Sauce

Ingredients
4 ounces of roasted (unsalted) peanuts
3-4 cloves garlic, chopped1 ounce chopped onion
1-2 tablespoon red or massaman curry paste
1 teaspoon fish sauce
8 tablespoons coconut milk
4-6 teaspoons lime juice
2-3 teaspoons palm sugar

Thai Cooking Instructions
First grind or crush the peanuts to a fairly fine powder. Then combine them with the remaining ingredients(except the lime juice), to form a smooth sauce. If the sauce is too thick, you can thin it with a little chicken stock. Now add the lime juice, tasting as you progress to check the balance of flavors is correct.

Note use red curry with beef or pork satay, massaman (as above) with chicken.

cucumber sauce

Ingredients
4 tablespoons white vinegar
1 teaspoon sugar
2-3 tablespoons cucumber, very coarsely chopped or sliced
2 shallots (or any variety of purple onion) chopped
3-4 Thai chilies peppers, thinly sliced.

Thai Cooking Instructions
Combine the ingredients, and leave to stand overnight.

Friday, August 31, 2007

Spicy Thai Chicken Salad





This Thai recipe serve 2


Ingredients:

1/2 lb ground chicken
1/4 cup chicken stock

2 Small shallots, sliced thin

1/4 Cup lemongrass , sliced thin

1/3 Cup mint leaves


Seasoning Sauce Ingredient
2 Tablespoons crushed, roasted rice

1 Teaspoon ground chili pepper

3 Tablespoons lime juice

2 Tablespoons fish sauce

1/2 Teaspoon sugar


Cooking Directions:

2. Pour chicken stock in the bowl over the medium heat untill boiling, add lemongrass,ground chicken untill cooked.Lift from the heat

3. Add shallots and mint leaves
4.Add all seasoning ingredient and mix well.

5. Serve with sticky rice and fresh vegetables.

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Thai Spicy Beef Salad or Larb Beef (Neu-ah Nam Tok เนื้อน้ำตก)








This Thai recipe serve 2



Ingredients


3/4 lb Top sirloin beef
1/4 cup chicken stock


2 Small shallots, sliced thin


1/4 Cup lemongrass, sliced thin


1/3 Cup mint leaves



Seasoning Sauce Ingredient
2 Tablespoons crushed, roasted rice


1 Teaspoon ground chili pepper


3 Tablespoons lime juice


2 Tablespoons fish sauce


1/2 Teaspoon sugar



Cooking Directions


1. Grill the beef until medium rare (or as desired). Slice into thin pieces


2. Pour chicken stock in the bowl over the medium heat untill boiling, add grilled beef untill cooked.Lift from the heat shallots and lemongrass.


3. Add shallots, lemongrass and mint leaves
4.Add all seasoning ingredient and mix well.


5. Serve with sticky rice and fresh vegetables.