Yum Tua Puu!

Prepare:

500 g. Shrimps (peeled, de-veined)
250 g. Minced pork
500 g. Wing beans (Cut 0.5cm)
10-15 Fresh red peppers (sliced)
5-10 dried red peppers (Fried)
4 tbsp. cut scallion (0.5cm)
4-5 tbsp. cut coriander (1 cm)
12 tbsp. sliced red onion (or as much as you like)

300 ml Coconut milk -Chao Koh brand, I like
1 tsp. salt
4 tbsp. Chili paste for Tom Yum
Chili oil (Pantainorasingh Brand) – It doesn’t effect much on the taste, just put as much as you like to make the color red.
5 tbsp. Fish sauce
4 lemons
½ cup vegetable oil

Instructions:

Wing Bean!

1. Heat the water in the pot until it is boiling then add 1 tsp. salt. Prepare very cold water.

2. Drop the wing bean in boiling water and quickly remove them to soak in a bowl of cold water. This will help keep the color green after it is cooked.

3. After that, heat the water again. Then cook minced pork (5 minutes) and shrimp (1-2 minutes). Don’t cook shrimp too long, as it usually gets too hard if you do.

4. In a different pot, boil coconut milk until it starts boiling. Then turn off the fire.

5. Fry half of the sliced red onion you have until it turn yellow or a little brown then remove it. You can fry red onion as much as you want if you like to add more.

6. Now, prepare a big bowl to mix everything together. Add wing beans, shrimps, pork, sliced red peppers, scallion, coriander, sliced red onion.

7. After that, add coconut milk, chili paste for Tom Yum, chili oil. It doesn’t affect much of the taste, just put as much as you like to make the color red. Pantainorasingh is the brand I like for many different products they have but I don’t get paid for mentioning their products on my site. (>_<)!

8. Add fish sauce (Actually, I don’t remember how much I add. So, start from 5 tbsp. if the taste is not right, then add more later) The thing is.. I add a big squeeze from the fish sauce bottle and say 2 or 5 tbsp. There is no exact amount though.. so, please add only a few if you don’t feel sure on this.

9. Add lemon juice. and now mix it all up.

After a long~ ~(drag your voice here and make high tone). long time I haven’t cook at home because of my full time job. My husband called it OVERTIME job as I usually work almost 11 hours a day and it is also taking away my days off at the moment.

Last time on my day off, I cooked this food as it is my friend’s favorite recipe. I have never cook this one for my husband yet. It is always the best to show him new food to eat after a long time eating dinner at Sawasdee restaurant that cook food to order. Vern orders Kao Phad, Pad Phak, Pad Si Iw every time. After 1 year we have been eating there, the owner remember us and can guess what Vern wants to eat for just looking into his eyes.

How sad is that. I have no time to cook anymore.

With this food, again takes me 2 hours to prepare.. haha. because I like to cook and clean and read newspaper at the same time.

It is worth waiting that day Vern was in tears.. and I am so happy to cook something for my husband too!

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Sawasdee Ka!

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Here is another post we did at one of our other sites (ThaiPulse.com). It’s Vern’s explanation of Som Tam!

Som Tam: What is it?

If you want to see Joy’s Som Tam recipe in another language click link:

Som Tam in French

Som Tam in German

Som Tam in Spanish

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ยำเห็ดเข็มทองกุ้งสด Yum Hed Khem Thong Goong Sod (Needle Mushroom and Shrimp Dressed with Spicy Sour Salad)

Prepare:

500g. Cooked Needle Mushroom
2 tbsp. minced chili peppers
2 tbsp. lemon juice
2 tbsp. fish sauce
1 tsp. sugar
1 tbsp. sliced pickled garlic
1 handful cut Chinese celery
1/4 cup sliced spring onion (thin and circle shape)
1/4 cup sliced tomatoes
500g. shrimps
3 tbsp. drinking water

 

 

Cooking Instructions: 

1. Clean, peal and de-veined the shrimps and soft boiled in boiling water.

2. In a bowl, add sugar, fish sauce, chili peppers, lemon juice, pickled garlic, water and mix well. Taste it the way you like. You may add more sugar if you like it sweet. However, it’s better to have sour and spicy flavor to lead.

3. When you get the taste you like, add tomatoes, onion, and celery. Mix well. Add more drinking water if you want it juicy.

Here is the trick, keep adding little by little until you get the right taste. After 3-4 recipes of spicy and sour salad, you can do it with out having to measure the amount.

4. Mix mushroom and shrimps on a plate and dress the salad on top. Or you can just throw them into a salad bowl, mix well and then serve.

 

I suggest the second way because it will make all the taste to take place in every bite to eat. Anyway, do you know what is it when I call that mushroom “Needle Mushroom”? It looks like needle to me and I translated it from Thai words. Don’t know what it’s called in English..

I’d better not embarrass myself calling it in a wrong way like in my cooking video. (If you have seen that one)

:’(

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ยำหอยดอง Yum Hoi Dong (Preserved Sea Mussel Salad)

Prepare:

1 cup preserved sea mussel
3 tbsp. sliced red onion
2 tbsp. ginger (cut thin and long)
1 tbsp. scallion (cut short)
1 tbsp. sliced coriander
2 tbsp. sliced chili peppers (sliced or add whole peppers up to you)
3 tbsp. sliced lemongrass

 

Cooking Instructions:

 1. Throw everything in a big bowl and mix well.

:p haha very easy. Any of you who do not get used to eating preserved food, pickled typed, I do not suggest this recipe

You should have a strong stomach like me!

Joy’s Strong Stomach = Big stomach with no muscle but fat + can eat anything!

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ยำไข่เค็ม Yum Kai Kem (Salted Eggs with Spicy and Sour Salad)

Prepare:

6 salted eggs (cook in boiling water for 7 minutes)
1 handful thin sliced spring onion
1 handful cut Chinese celery
2 tbsp. sliced red chili pepper
2 handful thin sliced lemongrass
2 tbsp. pickled garlic
1 tbsp. juice from pickle garlic
2 tomatoes cut bite size
1 cup sliced cabbage
3 tbsp. fish sauce
1 tbsp. sugar
3 lemons

Cooking Instructions: 

1. Cut the boiled salted eggs in half.

2. In a big bowl, add red chili pepper, fish sauce, sugar, squeeze the juice from 3 lemons, juice from pickle garlic, lemongrass, pickled garlic and 1/4 cup water. Keep adding fish sauce, lemon juice and sugar until you get the real taste of spicy and sour salad. 

Some people ground fresh garlic and red chili pepper first to get the red color, I didn’t.

3. After you get it at the taste you like, place sliced cabbage on the big plate, then salted eggs come after. You may choose Salted Red Yolk from my previous recipe: Salted Red Egg Yolks >>> 

4. Throw together tomatoes, onion and celery. Next, pour sauce from step 2 and serve with boiled plain rice.

Last week, my colleague got went back home in Chaiya, Surat Thani where it is famous for salted eggs. Her family owns a business selling salted eggs in the area by Suam Mohk, meditation center. When she came back to work, we all got 1 small box of salted duck eggs with OTOP logo. (This OTOP logo means “One Tumbon One Product”- good quality).

I promised to her and the girl working at the shop next door that I will cook ยำไข่เค็ม (Yum Kai Kem) for them if we share all ingredients cost. They gave me 10 Baht each so I got 30 Baht total. That’s enough for this recipe as we already had 6 salted eggs from my friends. I finished it with big praise for myself by myself! haha  

I was so sad that day I didn’t have the camera with me and I don’t know when will be the next time until I cook again.

 

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Bamboo Salad ซุปหน่อไม้

Bamboo Salad
ซุปหน่อไม้
Soup No Mai

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)
http://trythaifood.thaipulse.com/2007/01/thai-isaan-food-recipe-ho-mok-gai-sai.html

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.

 

 

The juice in this recipe should be a little thick and should not be too much.

Top with roasted sesame and mints. Serve with sticky rice and eat under the big tree by the rice fields.

Hehe can you imagine that picture?? That’s what we do… ;P

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Crispy Mandarin Duck in Isaan Sour and Spicy Salad, Laab Bped Tod Grob

Laab Bped Tod Grob
(Crispy Mandarin Duck in Isaan Sour and Spicy Salad)
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Prepare:

1 mandarin duck (1kg.)
5 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup sliced red onion
1/2 cup sliced lemon grass
1/2 cup kaffir lime leaves
1 tbsp. chili powder
3 tbsp. lemon juice
2 tbsp. fish sauce
3 tbsp. fried or roast peanut
7 dry chili peppers (fried)
1/4 tsp. sugar
4 tbsp. roasted uncooked rice (ground finely)
Any vegetables you like

Cooking Instructions:

1. Clean the duck very well. Cut the meat part that attached to its skin. Boil it in boiling water cut it a bite size and rest them drain in a filter.

2. Heat the pan on medium flame. Fry red onions, lemongrass and kaffir lime leaves, one after each one. When they get crunchy, remove from the pan and leave it drain in the filter.

3. Next, in the same pan, fry the boiled mandarin duck. When it turns gold and crunchy, remove and leave it drain.

4. Now, in a big bowl, add chili powder, lemon juice, fish sauce and mix well. Add fried red onion, lemongrass, kaffir lime leave, peanut, fried dry chili peppers and roasted uncooked rice.

Making it taste more or less sour and spicy are up to you. Balance the taste with sugar. Arrange fried mandarin duck on the plate and dress the spicy and sour salad on top.

Put fresh vegetables on a side, any kind that you like. I would love to have cucumber, long string bean, cabbage, winged bean for sure, and eggplants. Laab Bped Tod Grob is one of my favorite recipes from Sisaket. You can either grill the duck or fry before you mix with Isaan spicy and sour salad.

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