Thai Isaan Food Recipe: Ho Mok Gai Sai

Thai Isaan Food Recipe: Ho Mok Gai Sai No Mai

(Chicken and Bamboo Wrapped with Banana Leaves)

Ho Mok Gai Sai No Mai
(Chicken and Bamboo Wrapped with Banana Leaves)

Prepare:

1 cup chicken or fish
5 red onions
4 tbsp. lemongrass cut finely
5 red chili peppers (as many as you like)
4 galingales
1 cup basil (mang luk)
1/2 cup fermented fish juice
2 tbsp. fish sauce
2 cups bamboo
1 and 1/2 cup green leaves juice
3 tbsp. uncooked sticky rice
4 big pieces of banana leaves (12×7 inches)
1 cup mushroom
tooth pick (the clean one! please!

Cooking Instructions:

1. Ground onions, lemongrass, galingale, and red chili peppers together to make paste.

2. Scrape bamboo with fork. In the pot, mix chicken with the paste from above.

3. Then add shredded bamboo, mushroom, green leave juice, fermented fish juice, fish sauce and
basil. (see the pictures)

4. Turn up the side which has lighter color. Put two leaves together and turn the each soft edges to a different way.

5. Next, add stuff on the leaves and wrap it. (see how to wrap on my cooking video)

6. Stick the leaves together with toothpick.

7. Steam for 20 minutes.

This food is Thai Isaan’s favorite one. I’m so happy my husband loves it. Even when he doesn’t like the food, he ate it all and didn’t complain. He’s so cute.

Thai Food Recipe: Pad No Mai Sai Pla

Thai Food Recipe: Pad No Mai Sai Pla Muek (Spicy Bamboo and Squid Stir-Fried)

Pad No Mai Sai Pla Muek (Spicy Bamboo and Squid Stir-Fried)

Prepare:

1 cup cooked squid
2 cup sliced bamboo
2 tbsp. sliced kaffie lime leaves
1/2 cup sweet basil
1 tbsp. pad ped paste
1 tbsp. soy sauce
1/2 tbsp. fish sauce
1 tbsp. oyster sauce
1 tbsp. olive oil
1/2 cup water
1 tbsp. minced garlic

Cooking Instruction:

1. I have padped paste from last time i cook the food called Ho Mok Talay.

The paste is made by grounding 2 lemongrass (sliced), 2 pieces galangal (cut finely), 2 red onions, 1 clove garlic, 2 tsp. shrimp paste, 1 tsp. kiffir lime skin (sliced), and 5 dried red chili peppers together

2. Heat the pan and put olive oil. Fry the garlic until it smells good and then add paste. Stir fry about 20 seconds.

3. Put squid and bamboo. Add fish sauce, soy sauce, oyster sauce and 2 tbsp. of water.

4. Mix everything well. Add sweet basil. Mix it again and then turn off the fire.

5. Serve with hot jasmine rice.

Gang Som Naw Mai Dong (Spicy Bamboo Soup)

Gang Som Naw Mai Dong
(Spicy Bamboo Soup)

แกงส้มหน่อไม้ดอง
Kang Som No Mai Dong
(Spicy Bamboo Soup)

Prepare:

5 Peppers
6 red onions (sliced)
3 lemongrass stalks (finely cut)
3 scallions (cut short, about 1″)
1 tsp. salt
6 tbsp. fish sauce
1 pound chicken breast (cut thick)
1.5 pound pickled bamboo shoots
1/2 cup basil
2 cups water

See Gang Som Thai Food Video >

1. Make paste by mixing peppers, cut lemongrass, red onion and chop it in the blender.

2. Put 2 cups of water in the pot, and use high heat. Then add the paste from step 1 along with 1 tsp. of salt.

3. Wait until the water has boiled, then put chicken breast, pickled bamboo shoots, and 6 tbsp. of fish sauce.

4. Cook for 8-10 minutes with high heat.

5. Turn off the fire, add scallion and basil.

6. Serve over Jasmine rice. Your rice is important, there are many varieties. Usually if you buy expensive Jasmine rice in the Asian market you’ll get the better rice.

This is another of my husband’s favorite recipes. It is a spicy and sour soup that is served over rice. The smell of the pickled bamboo and the lemongrass and basil altogether is almost overwhelming. It’s incredibly delicious and a Thai favorite.

If you have suggestions for what you’d like us to cook, please write… trythaifood@gmail.com.

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Thai Isaan Food Recipe: Ho Mok Gai Sai