5/31/2008

ข้าวหมูแดง (Red BBQ Pork)

Kao Moo Dang (Jasmine Rice with Red and Sweet Pork)

Prepare:
1 cup (500g) pork with some fat stick to the meat
2.4 oz Thai BBQ red pork seasoning 2 tbsp. sesame oil
1 tbsp. honey
1 tbsp. cut garlic
1 tbsp. Shaoxing cooking wine (or Chingiang vinegar Brand)
5 scallions (cut short)
1 cucumber (sliced)
1/4 cup coriander
3 boiled eggs

Red sauce:
4 tbsp. light soy sauce
1 cup pork broth
4 tbsp. brown sugar
1 tbsp. ketchup
1 tbsp. sesame oil
1/2 cup roasted white sesame
1/4 cup tapioca flour mixed with water



Cooking Instructions:
1. Clean the pork very well and mix it with Thai BBQ red pork seasoning, garlic, honey, sesame oil and Shaoxing cooking wine. Mix well and leave it in refrigerator for 45 minutes.
2. Take the pork out. Grill it with medium heat. Dress the juice (from the same bowl) all over the pork while you are cooking it. When it's cooked, make sure you don't make it too dry. The pork meat should be soft and juicy.
3. Now, peel off the egg's shell and clean with water. Use string to cut the egg into 4 pieces.
4. After that, we will make the red sauce to go with the pork.
5. Boil pork broth until it is boiling.
6. Add light soy sauce, brown sugar, ketchup. Mix it together.
7. Pour tapioca flour, which is already dissolved in water, in the pot. Stir until the sauce gets thick. Turn off the fire and then add roasted sesame.

Slice the pork into a big but thin piece. Place the pork and coriander leaves on top of jasmine rice. Put boiled egg, scallion and sliced cucumber on a side. Dress it with red sauce. Black and sweet soy sauce mix with vinegar and pickled chili pepper is your other choice.

You can eat the red sweet pork with soup noodle, yellow noodle and chop sooey.


--maama, trythaifood.

5/05/2008

ไข่เยี่ยวม้ากระเพรากรอบ ( Preserved egg with crispy basil Stir Fry )


Preserved Egg and Basil Stir Fry ( Kai Jeow Maa Pad Gapow Grob )

Prepare:

4 preserved eggs (cut in four pieces)
1 cup basil
2 tbsp. minced garlic
3 tbsp. red and green chili pepper (minced)
1 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup minced pork
2 tbsp. fish sauce
1/2 tsp. black and sweet soy sauce
1 tsp. sugar
2 tbsp. oyster sauce

Cooking instructions:

1. Heat the pan and add vegetable oil. When you prepare the chili pepper, it depends on how spicy you want your food to be. Crush the chili pepper finely of you really it strong and taste real good. If you can’t stand that much spiciness, I suggest that you should only cut the chili pepper into pieces and use just 1 or 2 pepper.

2. When the pan is hot, then you can fry the preserved eggs. About 1 minute, it will be crunchy enough. Rest it in the plate and paper towel to absorb the oil.

3. Next, fry the basil leaves until it is crunchy and rest it on the paper towel as well.

4. In a different pan, (or the same pan but remove the used oil), add 3 tbsp. vegetable oil. Use medium heat and wait until it’s hot.

5. Add minced garlic and minced chili peppers. Fry until it smells nice, or until you sneeze.

6. Add minced pork, fish sauce, black and sweet soy sauce, sugar, oyster sauce and cook for 3 minutes.

7. Lastly, throw fried preserved eggs and half of fried basil into the pan and quick stir. Turn off the fire.

8. Dress the food with the rest of fried basil. Serve with Thai jasmine rice.

สูตรจาก Guzzie T-Time , trythaifood.