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(Isaan Style Pork Soup) Gaeng Om Moo

Gather:

5 peppers
5 red onions (lightly pounded)
3 garlic
1/2 cup lemongrass cut finely
1 and 1/2 cup pork
1 cup pumpkin (cut small)
3 eggplants (cut 4 each)
1 cup parsley
1 group scallion
1/2 cup basil
1 tsp. salt
2 tbsp. fish sauce
4 tbsp fermented fish juice (Blarah)
2 tbsp. roasted uncooked rice
2 cup water

Cooking Instructions:

1. Pound the peppers, lemongrass and garlic together. Mix with red onion when finished.

2. Boil 2 cups of water. then put the paste from number 1 in boiling water.

3. Add salt, pork, pumpkin and cook for 10 minutes.

4. Put eggplant, fish sauce, Blarah, and cook for another 2 minutes.

5. Now, add parsley, scallion, basil, and roasted uncooked rice then turn off the fire.

Delicious! Enjoy…

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Thai Isaan Food Recipe: Pae Sa Isaan
(Steamed Whole Fish with Sauce)

Prepare:

1 whole fish of any kind
3 pieces ginger
1 tbsp. soybean sauce
2 tbsp. pickled garlic
1/2 cup sugar
2 tbsp. minced garlic
3 red chili peppers
2 tbsp. lemon juice or vinegar
1 cup crushed roasted peanut
2 lemongrass (cut 2 inches)
5 kaffir lime leaves
2 coriander roots
1 tbsp. fish sauce
1 cup water

Cooking Instructions:

1. Clean and scale the fish very well. Put soybean sauce, sliced ginger, lemongrass and kaffir lime leaves.

2. Steam with max heat for about 30 minutes.

3. While the fish is being cooked. We’ll make the sauce. Firstly, ground coriander roots, chili peppers and garlic and then put in boiling water.

4. Add sugar, fish sauce, lemon juice or tamarind juice, and crushed roasted peanut.

5. Dress the sauce with coriander leaves.

6. Serve with coriander, mint, sweet basil, lettuce, Thai vermiceli, cabbage or and vegetable you like.

When you eat put fish on a big vegetable leaf. Add all kinds of vegetable but a little of each one. Then put sauce on the top and now open your mouth wide!!

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Som Tam (Spicy Papaya Salad), a Thai Favorite

Som Tam comes from the northeastern “Isaan” region of Thailand which is near the border of Laos. Residents eat this meal daily for lunch or dinner. It is usually accompanied by “Gai Yang” – barbequed chicken or pork and some condiments: cucumber, lettuce, and green beans. Som Tam Thai has peanuts, and dried baby shrimp. Som Tam is very delicious and my favorite Thai food! My husband has also grown to like it – he says it’s addictive.
Som Tam Recipe

Prepare:

2 cups coarsely graded unripe Papaya
1/2 cup diced tomatoes
1-4 small red or green chilis
(in Isaan we often use 10 or more!)
2 garlic cloves
1 long squirt of fish sauce
1 lemon/lime (minao in Thai)
1/4 cup yardlong beans (green beans) if you wish
Dash of salt, sugar to preference (1 tsp)

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Instructions

1. Combine chili peppers, garlic, tomatoes, salt, sugar, with mortar and pestle. The sound of pounding the ingredients makes a bpok bpok noise. Some people call som tam, “Bpok Bpok”! Some parents in Thailand name their kid Bpok!

2. Squirt in some fish oil and squeeze the lemon juice into the mix. Add the papaya in small groups to make sure it mixes well.

When mixed thoroughly serve in a bowl. Rice is always served with this – the som tam is eaten with rice to take the spice out of it a bit, and just because Thai people eat LOTS of rice! Sticky rice (steamed rice) is the preferred rice in Isaan, but you can use boiled white Jasmine rice.

This video is of a night market close to Teung C. Muang park in Ubon Ratchathani in the northeast of Thailand (Isaan region). This woman is my favorite som tam maker. You can see her squeezing the “minao” (lemon/lime) and adding the papaya to the mortar and pestle. She makes HUNDREDS of these dishes everyday! > Som Tam Woman Video

Click here to watch how to make Som Tam video

ENJOY!

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Gang Som Naw Mai Dong
(Spicy Bamboo Soup)

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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.

We will try to bring you a Thai Food Recipe and Cooking article everyday! Make sure you view some of the videos too! At some point we’ll put all the videos – in better quality of course, on a CD-ROM and offer them for sale.

Ok, Merry Christmas!

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