Pineapple curry

This is authentic Thai dish. I haven't had it for years.You can hardly find this dish in resturant. I'm not quite sure why. It'd be because it's not popular. Nowadays seem like most of people' diet have changed. The nutritious meal are replaced with fast food and junk food.

I made this dish today and it took me back to my childhood. My grandmother used to always make it. I love the juiciness and sweetness from pineapple and I'd like to share it with you.

Pineapple curry

Serves : 2

Ingredients

1/2 pineapple, cut into small cubes and 4 times washed

100g pork belly, thick sliced

2 tbsp red curry paste

300ml coconut milk

4 kaffir lime leaves, thinly sliced

2 tbsp fish sauce

2 tbsp sugar

Method

1. Put 1/4 coconut milk and red curry paste in a pan on medium heat. Keep stirring the curry paste with coconut milk for 2 mins until bubbling.

2. Put pork belly and keep stirring until cooked.

3. Put pineapple in.

4. Pour the rest of coconut milk in and stir well. Leave it to simmer for 7-10 mins or until pineapple softened.

5. Seasoning with sugar and fish sauce then put sliced kaffir lime leaf last. Mix well.

6. Serve hot with rice.

Enjoy xx

แกงสับปะรด

New potato soup

There's nothing good like having a bowl of hot soup in a cold day. This soup base on basic soup ingredients but I cook it my own way.It's so lovely and creamy.  I hope you try this recipe.

New potato soup

Serves: 2

Ingredients

500g new potato, diced

1 carrot, diced

1 onion, diced

2 cloves garlic, finely chopped

4 cups, chicken or vegetable stock

few sprigs of parsley, finely chopped

2 rashes bacon, crispy fried

4 tbsp cream fresh

1 tbsp butter

3 tbsp plain flour

1 tsp ground nutmeg

salt and pepper to taste

Method

1. Saute the onion in a pan with butter when soft put in carrot

and potato.

2. Pour vegetable stock in and leave it to simmer 1 hour to soften the vegs and reduce the stock.

3. After 1 hour simmering put in plain flour and cream fresh stir well.

 

4. Put chopped parsley.

5. Sprinkle crispy bacon on top before serve.

Enjoy xx

ซุปมันฝรั่ง

Papaya salad ( carrot version )

I don't have green papaya so I use carrot instead. It's tasty too. This dish is one of famous dishes for girls in Thailand. Some eat it on their diet because it's light and no matter how much you eat it. It'll never make you fat. It's so simple and quick to make.

                

Papaya salad ( carrot version )    

                        

Serves: 1

Ingredients

                 

1 carrot, shredded

10 cherry tomatoes, cut half

3 chillies or more if desired

1 clove garlic

2 tbsp dried shrimp

1 tbsp fish sauce

1 tbsp sugar

1/2 lime or lemon juice

1 tbsp toasted peanut

and you'll need pestle and mortar. Basically we use the different type of pestle and mortar which is lighter than this one. Pestle is made of wood and mortar is more bigger too so if anybody use the same granite one as mine there is no need to heavily pound, otherwise you might turn salad to some kind of mess.

Method

1. Crush chillies and garlic with pestle and mortar.

2. Put in sugar, fish sauce, lemon juice and toasted peanut. Gently crush the peanut with other ingredients.

 

3. Put shredded carrot, cherry tomato, dried shrimp and gently pound.

4. Serve with lettuce or cabbage.

Enjoy xx

ส้มตำแครอท

coconut milk sticky rice with egg pudding (Kao neaw-sunk kaya)

This is one of my favorite dessert. It's sticky rice in coconut milk with egg pudding Thai style. It's so sweet and creamy. We called this dessert "Kao neaw-sunk kaya" in Thai.

coconut milk sticky rice with egg pudding (Kao neaw-sunk kaya)

Serves: 2

Ingredients for coconut milk sticky rice

1/4 cup sticky rice, soaked over night

1/2 cup coconut milk

4 tbsp sugar

pinch of salt

Ingredients for egg pudding

2 eggs

1/3 cup sugar

2/3 coconut milk

1 tsp food colour, yellow

Method

1. Steam sticky rice with steamer for 30 mins.

2. Meanwhile, crack the eggs into a bowl. Put in sugar and colour. Using hand mixer to beat the eggs.

3. Pour coconut milk into the egg mixture and mix for 1 more minute.

4. Once sticky rice is cooked take it off the heat and steam the egg mixture in steamer for 20-25 mins.

when sticky rice cooked. It should look something like this. Clear and shiny.

5. Mix coconut milk with sugar and pinch of salt. Heat it up in the microwave for 2 mins to dissolve the sugar and salt.

6. Put in sticky rice and gently mix them together.

7. Serve egg pudding on top of the coconut milk sticky rice. Serve at room temperature.

Enjoy xx

ข้าวเหนียวสังขยา

Baked spinach with cheese

Baked spinach with cheese

Serves: 1

Ingredients

500g spinach

1 onion, diced

grated cheeses, ( parmesan, cheddar, mozzarella )

2 rashes bacon, diced

1 tbsp butter

salt

pepper

Ingredients for bechamel sauce

1/3 cup plain flour

100g butter

3/4 cup milk

pinch of salt

pinch of ground nutmeg

Method

1. Pre-heat  the oven 170C.

2. Cook spinach in boiling water for 3 mins.

3. Meanwhile, cook bacon in another pan till crispy brown.

4. Once spinach is cooked rinse water off and squeeze the excess of water.

5. Making bechamel sauce. Melt the butter on low heat then put in plain flour and keep stirring. Pour milk in a little bit by little bit and season with pinch of salt and pinch of ground nutmeg. Keep mixing till the sauce becomes smooth.

6. Saute diced onion with butter on medium heat  and sprinkle a little bit of salt on onion.

7. Put in bacon, spinach, bechamel sauce and season them with pepper and salt. Mix well.

8. Put the mixed ingredients in baking dish and sprinkle parmesan, cheddar and mozzarella cheese on top.

9. Bake at 170C for 10 mins or until cheese is golden and bubbly.

10. Serve hot.

Enjoy xx

ผักโขมอบชีส