Appetizing Thai Style Steamed Fish 开胃泰式蒸鱼

A wholesome hearty meal  ~  Appetizing  Spicy, sweet and sour steamed fish in fragrant spicy sauce with  a touch of Thailand essence.

Recipe adapted from Famous Chef Amy Beh with some amendments.

Ingredients 

1 slice of grouper fish  石斑鱼  (2cm thick, about 250 gms)
1 stalk of  lemongrass, smashed.

Seasoning A
some salt
some pepper

Spicy Sauce

2 tbsp  Fish sauce
2 tbsp Asam jawa juice
2 tabsp Lime juice
3-4 shallots, chopped finely
1 tbsp finely chopped lemon grass
3 chilli padi, chopped
1 tbsp chopped coriander leaves and stalks
sugar to taste

Method

Lightly season fish with seasoning (A).  Place fish and lemon grass on a plate.
Steam over high heat for 8-10 minutes or until cooked.
3.  Throw away excess water from the fish
Combine fragrant sauce (B) in a bowl.  Pour sauce over the fish and serve immediately.

Sashimi Salmon Salad (Thai Style) 泰式三文鱼沙拉

 

A very appetizing dish to start with a meal

 Cut Salmon into small cubes

Thai Spicy Pandan Chicken 泰式香兰鸡

Pandan leaves wrap with chicken is a popular dish at most Thai Restaurant.
The wrapping of the chicken meat with the pandan leaves can be fun, once you get the momentum of the trick.

Thai Mango Glutinous Rice Desserts ( Khao Niaow Mamuang) 泰式芒果糯米甜点

Mangoes season is here again. you can see lots of mangoes selling at wet markets and hypermarkets. It is time to prepare dishes with mangoes. Mango desserts, pudding, ice cream cakes, pies and so on and on....

Every holiday trip to Hatyai, Thailand, my family will never miss this Thai delights at the stall in the market place. I was told by my friend who takes the trouble to 'ta pau (pack) 20 packets back to Malaysia. This is really crazy leh.

Very Tempting leh! Don't be shy! Please help yourself!

Ingredients

6 mangoes 0r more (peeled and sliced)

A

600 gm glutinous rice (washed and soaked overnight, drained)

200 ml coconut milk from 1/2 coconut

120gm sugar (or brown sugar)

1/2 tsp salt

4 -5 pcs screw pine leaves (pandan leaves) - knotted

coconut cream (Mixed)

1 coconut squeezed 250 ml thick coconut milk

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp cornflour mix with little bit of water for thickening

Method

1. Put all ingredients A into a steaming tray and steam over high heat till cooked and dry about 30 to 40 minutes. Fluff up with a fork or a pair of chopsticks
2. Coconut Cream - put the mix ingredients into a small pot and heat up the cream over low heat. Stirring all the time. Pour into a sauce boat.
3. Press glutinous rice into a jelly mould and knock out. Put into dessert bowl or plate
4. Arrange mango slices on top. sprinkle coconut cream all over and garnish with toasted sesame seeds or mug nuts. Serve.

Happy Trying Again!

Thai Spicy Mango Salad (Yum Mar Mour)

Thai Spicy Mango Salad is call Yum Mar Mour in Thai, in Malaysia we called it Mango Kerabu.
A very refreshing, appetizing and popular dish in most asian countries. It is easy and simple to prepare. One of the parents from my daughter's school, who is also a PIPG member gave us some mangoes from her own garden.

Normally green unripe mangoes should be used for this salad. I just used whatever I have in hand to prepare this salad. I dont know the name of this type of mangoes but I love the bright yellow color of the mangoes fresh. My family love this salad, the dish snap up in no time! Hehe...

Here is my version of Yum Mar Mour

Ingredients

2 unripe green mangoes (the Unripe Mangoes that I have are in yellowish color ) I love the color.
1 small carrot (shredded)
1 big onion (shredded)
1 Japanese cucumber (shredded)
2 0r 3 tbsp of toasted peanuts (coarsely pounded)
some coriander leaves

Dressing

Lime juice from 4 to 5 limes (the amount of lime juice depends on your liking)
1 tabsp of brown sugar
2 tabsp of fish sauce
3 to 4 chilli padi - cut in small pieces (or you may use red chili if you prefer not too hot)
1 dash of sesame oil
Some toasted sesame seed ( Optional)

Method

1. Skinned and shredded the mangoes.
2. Mix all the ingredient together and chilled in the fridge till serving time.
3. Mix all the ingredients for dressing together. Adjust the taste to your liking by adding or minus the amount on sugar, lime juice and fish sauce.
4. Take out the mixed vegetables from the fridge mix in the dressing.
5. Top with toasted peanuts and coriander leaves and serve.