Posted on 03 February 2007. Tags: bla ra recipe, bla rah, isaan cooking, isaan food, isaan recipe, plara recipe, thai cuisine, thai isaan food, thai sauce
Thai Isaan Sauce: Jaew Plara
(Minced Fermented Fish Mixed in the Sauce)
Thai Isaan Sauce: Jaew Plara (Minced Fermented Fish Mixed in the Sauce)
Prepare:
5 red chili peppers
5 red onions
3 cloves garlic
1/2 cup cooked fermented fish
2 tbsp. fermented fish juice
1/4 tsp. sugar
1 cup fish meat (throw away the bone)
1 tbsp. lemon juice
eggplant
pumpkin tree shoot
cabbage
papaya
string bean
bamboo shoot
Cooking Instructions:
1. Roast or grill red chili peppers, onions and garlic in a hot pan until it smells aromatic.
2. Then, ground all of the together. Add fish, minced fermented fish, plara juice, sugar, lemon juice and fermented fish juice.
3. Put vegetables in boiling water until it is cooked. For green leave vegetables, we drop it in boiling water and take it out right the way. Then, immediatly soak it in a bowl of cold water. That will keep the same green color. Bamboo, eggplants and papaya usually take 3-5 minutes.
4. Serve the sauce with all kind of vegetables. 
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Posted on 12 January 2007. Tags: isaan cooking, isaan food, isaan recipe, isaan soup, isaan style cooking, thai pork, thai pork soup, thai soup
(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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