Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Thai Food Menu Today

Pineapple Fried Rice


Details

vegetable oil 1 ½ tbsn.
garlic, chopped 2 cloves
carrot, diced 1/8 c.
onion, diced 1/8 c.
ham, diced 35 g.
raisins 1 tbsn.
sugar 1 tsp.
salt 1/2 tsp.
pineapple, diced 1/4 c.
rice, steamed and cooled 1 c.
spring onion, chopped 1 stalk
ground pepper 1/4 tsp.

Preparation :

1. Stir-fry the chopped garlic until lightly brown. Add carrots and onion until cooked, then add the ham and raisins. Season with sugar and salt.
2. Take a medium - sized pineapple, cut in half length - wise and scoop out the fruit. Dice the fruit and save the outer shell for later.
3. Stir the pineapple and rice into the garlic mixture until well - combined. Add spring onion and pepper.
4. Spoon the fried rice into the pineapple shell and bake in the oven at 150 ?C for approximately 5 minutes.

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Thai Food Menu Today


Pad Thai Kung Sod


Details

Palm Sugar 300 g
Fish Sauce 10
Tamarind Juice 1
Chili Powder 3
Rice Noodle (dry) 50 g
Bean Sprouts 500 g
Tiger Prawns 1 tbsn
Tofu (yellow & hard) 1 tbsn
Chinese Chives ½ c
Pickled white Radish 50 g
Roasted Peanuts 1 tbsn
Dried shrimps 4 tbsn
Eggs 3 tbsn
Shallots 4 tbsn
Cooking Oil ,Water or Stock ½ c

Preparation :
1. Fry garlic with 3 tablespoons cooking oil. Add rice noodle and a little water to soften noodle. Add fish sauce, sugar and tamarind juice to taste. Stir fry quickly to prevent noodle forming clumps. Set aside in wok or remove.
2. Use 3 tablespoons cooking oil to fry prawns, preserved white radish, bean curd and chilli flakes. Fold in noodles and stir fry. Set aside in wok.
3. Use 2 tablespoons cooking oil to fry beaten egg. Spread egg evenly over pan. Fold in noodle mixture. Add half of bean sprout and Chinese flat chives. Transfer to a serving dish.

Note : Add together 3 tablespoons fish sauce,
4 tablespoons sugar and
4 tablespoons tamarind juice.
Heat and simmer until thicken. Sauce can be made in advance in large quantity by increasing ingredients portions. Keep in airtight container.

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Friday, July 10, 2009

Healthy Thai Cooking

This book is all that I hoped for: not only delicious recipes, but a discussion of what Thai cooking is all about and what ingredients are used (defined and described), AND with health-conscious modifications made to traditional recipes.
Highly recommended!