Thursday, December 11, 2008

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.



(Picture from : http://www.thainewsland.com/?l=th&a=25775)

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.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

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.




(Picture from : http://www.eatingmore.com/daybyday.php?id=103)

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.