Rice with curried chicken

Here is the food from the south part of Thailand. In fact, It is the Muslim food. It's very good for health and delicious.



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Ingredients :

• Chicken
  
• Rice
• Red Onion
• Butter
• Tasteless Condensed Milk
• Fresh Water
• Vegetable Oil

Ingredients for the curry powder :

• Curry Powder
• Turmeric Powder (ผงขมิ้น)
  
• Coriander Ground (ลูกผักชีป่น)
  
• Cumin Seeds Ground
• Salt
• Sugar
• Cinnamon Pure Ground (อบเชยป่น)
• Cardamom (กระวาน)

Ingredients for Sauce :

• Spring Onion (ต้นหอม)
  
• Coriander (ผักชี)
  
• Goat Pepper (พรกชี้ฟ้า)
  
• Vinegar (น้ำส้มสายชู)
• Ginger
• Salt
• Sugar
• Fresh Water
  

How to cook :

• Clean the chicken and pick by the fork.
• Mix the Ingredient for Curry Powder together. Divide it to two parts.
• Take the first part to pickle the chicken for an hour.
• Slice the red onion and divide it to two parts and fry the first part.
  
• Fry the second part of red onion with the butter. When the red onion become the yellow one, put the chicken into the pan.
  
• Fry the chicken to the medium rare.
• Take the chicken of the pan and leave it.
• Put the second part of the curry powder into the pan and fry it until it is fragrance. Then put the rice which is wash by water.
• Put the rice that is fried into the rice cooker.
• Also put the chicken to the rice cooker and fill a little water.
• Done when the rice is cooked.

How to cook the sauce :

• Boiled A little of water.
• Put salt and sugar into the pot and stir it until it is melt.
• Take it out of fire and put it the vinegar.
• Put all of the ingredients of sauce into the blender and blend it.
  

Green Curry - แกงเขียวหวาน

The next food is very suitable food with rice, especially thai jasmine rice. It's very hot and spicy but it's full with herb. And you can reduce the chilli. That food is Green Curry or "Gaeng Kĭeow Wăan" in thai word.




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Ingredients:

1. Pork (เนื้อหมู) : Can be changed to be meat or fish.
2. Coconut Milk (กะทิ)
3. The component of chilli that made for Green Curry - In thai call "Prik Gaeng": Maybe you can buy in thai or indian store
4. Vegetable Oil.
5. Eggplant (มะเขื่อยาว): Slice for 2 Inch.
6. Fish Sauce
7. Coconut palm sugar or brown sugar
8. Kaffir Lime (ใบมะกรูด) : Tear the middle branch off.
9. Goat pepper (พริกชี้ฟ้า).
10. Sweet Basil (โหระพา)

How to cook :

1. Boil Pork with Coconut milk and water until the pork is cooked
2. Stir-fry the Prik Gaeng with vegetable oil until you get sweat smelling.
3. Pour the coconut milk and stir it until it blend.
4. Put the component of Prik Gaeng to the pot of pork and boil it.
5. put the eggplant in the pot.
6. Flavour with fish sauce and brown sugar.
7. Put the Goat Pepper and Sweet Basil in the pot.

Done.

P.S. : Thai Jasmine Rice is recomended but you can eat with the noodle too.

Ladna - ราดหน้า

The Next food that I want to present is Ladna. It is a type of noodle.


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One of the great advantages of thai food, especially thai noodle is : You can also get protien cabohidrate vitamin in the same time when you eat it.

Ingredients:

1. Pork
2. Chinese vegetable (คะน้า)
3. fresh Water
4. Boar Bone Soup Stock (น้ำต้มกระดูกหมู)
5. Thai pepper
6. Garlic
7. Soybean Sauce (ซีอิ๊ว)
8. Vegetable oil
9. Soybean
10. Salt
11. Tapioca (แป้งมัน)
12. noodle
    

How to Cook :

1. Ferment the pork by mixing soybean sauce, tapioca, thai pepper and a little vegetable oil together.
2. Put the Slice pork into the composition and mix it.
3. Leave it for an half of hour.
4. fry the noodle with oil and soybean sauce until the noodle is coat with the soybean sauce and leave it.
5. Mix the Tapioca with water. leave it
   
6. Stir-fry the soybean and garlic in the oil.
7. Put Chinese vegetable in the pan and stir it then put a few cup of the water.
8. When it boil, put the composition of pork.
9. When the water is boil again, drop the composition of tapioca into the pan until you feel it is glutinous. While you drop the composition of tapioca, you should stir it all the time.
10. Put the noodle on the plate and then put the composition onto it.

P.S.: noodle can be replaced by rice.
Pork can be replaced by any meat you like.
Carrots can be used.

Som Tum - ส้มตำ

Next thai food is Som Tum or Someone call Papaya Pok Pok.

Ingredients :

1. Papaya : the fresh and green
2. Lime
3. Tomato : the small one
4. Fish Sauce
5. A non-dried ripe tamarind (มะขามเปียก)
6. Guinea-pepper (พริกขี้หนู)
7. Garlic
8. Fermented fish sauce (น้ำปลาร้า)
9. Vigna (ถั่วฝักยาว)
10. A morning glory (ผักบุ้ง)

How to cook :

1. Peel the skin of papaya and chop it into the strings.
2. Pound the garlic ,guinea-pepper and the papaya string in the mortar
3. Flavour by Lime juice, Fermented fish sauce, A non-dried ripe tamarind and fish sauce.
4. Put the half cut of tomato and vigna and pound it

P.S. : Mix everything in the mortar and pound not to much.

: Papaya can be replaced by carrots.

: increase or decrease the ingredients as the taste you like.

Thai Food : Tom Yum Kung

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The first thai food which is very pround to present is Tom Yum Kung.

The ingredients is:

1. Shrimp (กุ้ง)
2. Straw Mushroom (เห็ดฟาง) : half cut (หั่นครึ่ง)
3. Galingale (ข่า) : Slice into thin (หั่นบาง)
4. Kaffir Lime (ใบมะกรูด) : tear (ฉีก)
5. Lemon Grass (ตะไคร้) : Slice in two inches (หั่นเป็นท่อน)
6. Guinea-pepper (พริกขี้หนู) : little Pound (ทุบ)
7. Coriander (ผักชี).
8. Chicken Bone Soup Stock (น้ำต้มโครงไก่)
9. Fish Sauce (น้ำปลา)
10. Lime Juice

How to cook:

1. Pick out the shrimp hull and rinse it. (แกะเปลือกกุ้งแล้วล้าง)
2. Rinse the straw mushroom. (ล้างเหดฟาง)
3. Boil the Soup Stock.
4. Put the lemon grass, Galingale and shrimp in the pot and wait until it is boil.
5. Then put the straw mushroom, Kaffir Lime and fish sauce in the pot.
6. Pour to the bowl and put Guinea-pepper and lime juice to flavour.
7. Dress by Coriander.

Eat with cooked rice.

Thai Jasmine rice is recommended. It is best for Thai Food.

P.S. Kung is thai word mean Shrimp. So you can replace it with chicken, fish or meat you like.

Thai Food

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Thailand is the one of most beautiful and interesting country to visit. Visitor can find the various culture in Thailand. Each culture has its own style and very charming. One of the very interesting thing is food. There are many kinds of thai food which is seperated by the region.

Thai food has its own advantages and very charming. Most of thai food is hot and spicy. So the consumer should be careful if they want to try. But its taste is very good for health and it can help you to relax. The ingredient that is very good for health and used in thai food is Herb. So Thai food is good for health.

This article will show how to cook thai food.