Thai Food Recipe: Basil Shrimp! (Gapow Goong)
Basil Shrimps (Gapow Goong)
Gapow Goong
กะเพรากุ้ง
Prepare:
1 cup big shrimps (peeled, clean and de-veined)
1 handful basil
1 handful sliced spring onion
2 tbsp. minced chili peppers (Ground them if you really want to get real taste)
2 tbsp. minced garlic
3 tbsp. vegetable oil
2 tbsp. oyster sauce
1 tbsp. fish sauce
1 tsp. soy sauce
1/2 tsp. sugar
Some small amount of water
2 small drops black and sweet soy bean sauce
Cooking Instructions:
1. Soft boiled the shrimps. Ah! forgot to tell you the leave the tails on the shrimps, I think it looks better on the food (Doesn’t mean it will taste better, haha)
2. Here is what I do to make it real quick and short time for sneezing.
In a small cup, mix oyster sauce, black and sweet soybean sauce, sugar, fish sauce and water (5 tbsp.).
3. Next, heat the pan with medium and add vegetable oil. Wait until it gets warm and add minced garlic and chili peppers.
4. Cover your nose. 
don’t sneeze into the food.
5. Add spring onion, shrimps, basil and the sauce we already mix from number 2.
6. Stir-fry and count 1-2-3 then turn of the fire.
Mostly at Thai restaurant use only 3 tbsp. basil, however, at home my brother added 1 big cup of basil and make this recipe real sweet. He learnt to cook before me and loved to make crazy recipes for us.
One rule I have learned at home is just add whatever you want.
Phad Cha Talay (Spicy Seafood Stir Fry)
Spicy Seafood Stir-Fry in Thai, Phad Cha! Talay
Phad Cha! Talay
Spicy Seafood Stir-Fry
ผัดฉ่าทะเล
Prepare:
1/4 cup sea mussel
1/4 cup cooked cockle (throw away the shell)
1/2 cup cut squid (score the squid and soft boiled)
1/4 cup shrimp (peeled, de-veined, soft boiled)
5 pieces snapper (cut to bite size and boil)
2 bunches pepper corn
1 tbsp. minced chili pepper
1 tbsp. minced garlic
2 tbsp. sliced galingale
2 tbsp. chili paste for Tom Yum
1 tbsp. cut yellow or red sweet pepper
1 group scallion (cut 1 inch)
1/2 cup basil
1/2 tbsp. sugar
1 tbsp. oyster sauce
2 tbsp. fish sauce
2 tbsp. vegetable oil
Cooking Instructions:
1. Heat the pan start on low flame and add vegetable oil. Wait until it’s hot then fry minced garlic.
2. When the garlic smell aromatic, increase the flame. Add chili pepper, galingale, pepper corn, followed by squids, shrimp, snapper, cockles and sea mussel.
3. Mix well. Now, add fish sauce, oyster sauce, sugar, chili paste for Tom Yum.
4. Quick stir and then add sweet pepper, scallion and basil. Turn off the fire.
ผัดฉ่าทะเล is what I always order at the restaurant. With this recipe, I really like squid so I add a lot.
You can always add more or cut out the ones you don’t like.
Thai Food Recipe: Lemon Garlic Shrimp Dipping Sauce (Nam Prig Gapi)
Lemon Garlic Shrimp Paste (Dipping Sauce) in Thai, Nam Prig Gapi
Lemon Garlic Shrimp Paste Dipping Sauce
น้ำพริกกะปิ
Prepare:
1 tbsp. shrimp paste
3 tbsp. fish sauce
3 tbsp. lemon juice
2 tbsp. small eggplant
1 tbsp. garlic
1 tbsp. red chili pepper
1 tbsp. palm sugar
Cooking Instructions:
1. In a wide pan, add a little vegetable oil and shortly fry the shrimp paste until it smells aromatic. Remove and rest it in a bowl.
2. In a mortar, ground chili pepper and garlic together.
3. Add shrimp paste, sugar, lemon juice and fish sauce.
4. Add small eggplant and use the pestle crush it lightly.
5. Dress it with whole red chili pepper and coriander leave. Serve with fresh vegetable, for example, cucumber, string bean, eggplant, soft boiled cabbage.
Southern style, they serve this dipping sauce with a basketful of fresh vegetable when you order Kao Raad Gang (Different kind of food as you like on top of the rice).
We finish all the vegetable and the sauce was all gone. This sauce is also good with omelet and fried mackerel.
Thai Food Recipe: Undercover Squids! (Pla Muk Suam Goong)
Undercover Squids in Thai, Pla Muk Suam Goong
Undercover Squids
Pla Muk Suam Goong
ปลาหมึกสวมกุ้ง
Prepare:
500 g. fresh squid (clean and cut to 1 ½ inch)
500 g. shrimp (peel, de-veined, and crush)
1 carrot (cut to 1 inch pieces)
1/2 cup green pea
1/2 cup baby corn (cut to 1 inch pieces)
1 tsp. pepper
1/2 tsp. salt
2 tbsp. tapioca flour
2 cup vegetable oil
2 tbsp. oyster sauce
Cooking Instructions:
1. Mix crushed shrimp meat with pepper and salt. Knead it until it gets soft.
2. After that, put the shrimp into the squid that we prepared.
3. Drop the squid into a bowl of tapioca flour. Make it round shape and deep fry in vegetable oil of medium heat.
4. When the squid turn gold and crunchy, remove from the pan and leave it drain.
5. During that time, heat the pan and add 1 tbsp. of vegetable oil. When the pan is hot, add carrot, green pea, baby corn and 2 tbsp. oyster sauce. Quick stir and remove into the plate.
Prepare the sauce:
2 tbsp. minced pork
2 tbsp. minced onion
1 tbsp minced coriander root
2 tbsp. ketchup
2 tbsp. oyster sauce
6. After you finished with the vegetable, in the same pan add 1 tbsp. vegetable oil.
7. When the pan is hot, add minced pork, onion, coriander root and stir fry for 4 minutes.
8. Next, add ketchup and oyster sauce. Mix well.
9. Place deep fried squid on a plate and dress the sauce on top. Don’t forget to serve stir fried vegetable on a side.
hehe… I have just came out with this name undercover squids for this recipe and think that it is a really cool name and maybe it will make some children, who are tired of the same food they have everyday, get excited.
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