FREE Thai Food E-Books! No purchase required…
Sawasdee Ka!
I just finished writing a new page here at the blog… in the upper left hand side you can see it - “FREE Thai Food E-Books!”.
We decided to just give away both of our e-books for free since we’ll be able to have more people see them and enjoy them!
If you don’t know what an e-book is, it’s simply a Word file with photos and nice formatting converted into an Adobe PDF format that you can read on your computer, PDA, phone, or maybe even your watch. It makes the files easy to read on electronic readers too - you may have heard about Microsoft’s and Amazon’s new readers. They are e-book readers designed specially for reading e-books.
If you want to get both e-books here are the links below…
Joy’s Thai Food Recipe E-book, 99 pages, fully illustrated, fully FREE!
Joy’s Top 20 Thai Desserts E-book, 38 pages, fully illustrated, also - fully FREE!
Thai Food Recipe: Stir Fried Shrimp with Leguminosae (Goong Phad Cha Om)
กุ้งผัดชะอม Goong Phad Cha-Om (Stir fry shrimps with Leguminosae)
Prepare:
1 cup Leguminosae
1 cup big shrimps (peeled, de-veined and soft boiled)
2 tbsp. minced garlic
2 tbsp. minced chili peppers
2 tbsp. oyster sauce
1 tsp. sugar
1 tsp. fermented soybean (you may add more if you like, just careful some bands are so salty)
1 tbsp. vegetable oil
Cooking Instructions:
1. Heat the pan, add vegetable oil and wait until it’s hot.
2. Add minced garlic and chili peppers. Stir fry until it has aromatic smell or until you sneeze. 
3. Add Leguminosae, oyster sauce, fermented soybean, sugar and quick stir.
4. Next, add shrimps. Mix well and then turn off the fire.
5. Serve with jasmine rice.
I love Leguminosae. I don’t know if this is the correct word for this type of vegetable or not. So, I put a link to my previous post where I have its picture.
I had an omelet with it and found a new recipe on internet so I want to share with everyone.
Thai Food Recipe: ปลาราดพริก Bpla Raad Prik (Deep fried fish with 3 flavors sauce)
ปลาราดพริก Bpla Raad Prik (Deep fried fish with 3 flavors sauce)
ปลาราดพริก
Bpla Raad Prik
(Deep fried fish with 3 flavors sauce)
Prepare:
1 tilapia (or any kind of fish you like)
4 tbsp. sliced red onion
2 tbsp. roughly cut garlic
3 tbsp. cut chili pepper (more or less as you like)
4 big size chili peppers
(remove the seeds and ground finely, this pepper will help with color)
3 coriander roots
2 tbsp. palm sugar
3 tbsp. fish sauce
4 tbsp. concentrated tamarind juice
1 tbsp. tapioca flour
2 cups vegetable oil
Cooking Instructions:
1. Scrape the scales off, cut the stomach and remove the inside part, make stripe the whole fish and clean again. Wipe the fish with kitchen towels.
2. Heat the pan, use high volume. Add vegetable oil. Wait until the oil is very hot and then lower it to medium. Deep fried whole fish in vegetable oil until it is crunchy.
3. Remove from the pan when it’s cooked.
4. Next, in a small bowl we will make the sweet and sour sauce. Mix concentrated tamarind juice, palm sugar, fish sauce all together. Taste the sauce and make it 3 flavors (sour, sweet, salty). Mix tapioca flour with 1 tbsp. water then add into the sauce.
5. Boil the sauce on low heat until it get thick. Remove from the stove.
6. After that, in a small pan, add 2 tbsp. vegetable oil. When it’s hot add onion, chili peppers and coriander roots. Stir-fry for 30 seconds.
7. Then, add the sauce from step 4 and mix well. Turn off the fire.
8. Place lettuce on a big plate. When the fried fish cool off, put it on the lettuce. Arrange sliced tomatoes and cucumbers on a side and dress 3 flavors sauce on top of the fish. Serve with jasmine rice.
This recipe is very easy. I got one fresh Tilapia from Tesco Lotus and have them fried it for me (free) :p It was only 16 Baht!!! I’m so excited to get it that cheap. Haha Anyway one fish was enough for me because my husband doesn’t like anything fried.
In Thailand, we fry the fish so crunchy that we will be able to eat the bone and head. I don’t eat the head but some people do.
Thai Dessert: กล้วยแขก Gluay Kaek (Deep fried banana with shredded coconut and sesame)
กล้วยแขก Gluay Kaek (Deep fried banana with shredded coconut and sesame)
กล้วยแขก
Gluay Kaek
(Deep fried banana with shredded coconut and sesame)
Prepare:
10 banana (peeled and cut)
Choose the one that is not too ripe
10 pieces potatoes
10 pieces taro
2 cups rice flour
2 cups wheat flour
1 tsp. salt
3 tbsp. sugar
1 cup shredded coconut
2 tbsp. roasted sesame
2 glasses water
2 cups vegetable oil
2 cups limestone water
Cooking Instructions:
1. Mix 2 type of flour, salt and sugar altogether in a big bowl.
2. Add shredded coconut and sesame.
3. Soak cut banana, potato and taro into the limestone water. This way will help make the banana, taro and potato get not too soft when you fry them.
4. Heat the pan and add vegetable oil.
5. Dip the banana into mixed flour and then deep fried in hot vegetable oil.
6. Wait until it turns gold then remove from the pan. Do the same to potato and taro.
