Monday, June 25, 2012

Tom Yam Soup (Shrimp Galangal Soup)

For 4 persons
Ingredients:
8-12 shrimp peeled with tail
8 dl vegetable stock
200 grams of mushrooms
2 stalks lemon grass
A galangal root (2 cm)
4 tablespoons juice from lemon green
3 tablespoons fish sauce (nam plaa)
Thai chilies (optional)
2-3 Kaffir Lime leaves (kaffir lime)
cilantro fresh for decoration

Preparation: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 10 minutes
Waiting: 0 min
Total time: 20 minutes
Difficulty: Easy

How to make "Tom Yam Soup":
  1. Wash and dry the mushrooms (if necessary, cut a toe) and cut into pieces.
  2. Remove the first layer of the lemongrass. Keep the white and tender. Remove the hard bottom. Crush it by hitting it with your hand so that it develops its flavors well. Then split in two and cut finely using a sharp knife at an angle. The pieces will separate more and give more flavor to the soup.
  3. Wash Galanga root under cold water, trim the ends and peel by scraping summarily with a knife. Cut thin slices. Galangal has a piquant taste (like pepper), it's your dose depending on your spice tolerance. Same for Thai peppers: Cut in half and remove seeds (be careful, do it with gloves to avoid inconvenience).
  4. Remove the hard part of the Kaffir Lime leaf (midrib) with a small knife. Roll the leaves together and chop finely.
  5. Heat the broth in large saucepan. Add mushrooms, lemongrass, galanga, chilli and chopped leaves of Kaffir Lime. Add shrimp and cook 3 minutes. Season with fish sauce and lemon juice. Taste and adjust seasoning if necessary. Serve in soup plates and sprinkle some lint cilantro for garnish.

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Chicken Rice Noodles

For 4 persons
Ingredients:
400 g fillet or thighs of chicken bone
200 g noodles rice
1 cm root ginger fresh
1 clove of garlic
1 stalk fresh lemongrass
3 tablespoons fish sauce
3 tablespoons soy sauce
1 tablespoon sugar red
2 tablespoons neutral oil
few leaves of coriander
a rod spring onion

Preparation: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 10 minutes
Rest: 60 min
Total time: 90 minutes
Difficulty: Easy

How to make "Chicken Rice Noodles":
  1. Chop finely lemongrass, garlic and ginger. Crush all in a mortar with fish sauce, soy sauce, sugar red
  2. Pour the marinade over the chicken, cut into cubes, mix, let stand 1 hour.
  3. Pour boiling lightly salted water over rice noodles. Soak to soften it (only minutes. Drain, season with 1 tablespoon oil.
  4. Heat the remaining oil in a wok until it almost smoking, cook the chicken pieces with marinade over high heat, stir it constantly.
  5. When the chicken is cooked, add rice noodles, cilantro/coriander and chopped onions and saute again 1 minute. Serve hot.

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Chicken Coconut Milk

For 3 people
Ingredients:
2 large slices of chicken
1 onion
500 ml of milk coconut
a small piece of fresh ginger
curry
sambal chili paste (oelek)
almonds
oil
salt , pepper

Preparation: 30 minutes
Cooking time: 0 minutes
Waiting: 0 min
Total time: 30 minutes
Difficulty: Easy

How to make "Chicken Coconut Milk":
  1. Cut the scallops into small pieces and brown in a tablespoon of oil, set aside.
  2. Cut the onion into strips, peel and cut the ginger into very fine pieces. Sauté with a little oil, a teaspoon of curry and a small teaspoon chili paste (amount varies according to personal taste).
  3. Add the cooked chicken pieces. Pour half the coconut milk, let it reduce for 5 minutes, then add salt and pepper.
  4. Add remaining coconut milk and cook another 5 minutes to a consistency a little creamy, adjust seasoning.
  5. Add the almonds at the end cooking.

Monday, June 18, 2012

Easy Thai Soup

For 4 persons
Ingredients:
1 carrot and 1 leek , cut into thin strips
2 cloves of garlic
1 teaspoon of ginger grated fresh or frozen
80 ml ​​of broth made ​​with a cube and a half of broth chicken dehydrated
1 carton of 200 ml of milk coconut
soy sauce
Lemon Green
curry paste (green or red preferably) peanut oil

Preparation: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 10 minutes
Waiting: 0 min
Total time: 20 minutes
Difficulty: Easy

How to make "Easy Thai Soup":
In a wok , heat a tablespoon of peanut oil and saute, stir it constantly, then add garlic and ginger (beware of projections if they come directly from the freezer). When browned, add the fresh or frozen vegetables, stir again, add a knob of green curry paste or red cover broth hot, and cook covered 3-4 minutes with a julienne frozen, 10 to 15 minutes. Put the wok a tray of ravioli of Dauphine (cut plates still frozen ravioli, it's easier). When the ravioli are brought to the surface, add the coconut milk Briquette, heat a few seconds, then put a line of lime juice and soy sauce.

Saturday, June 16, 2012

Thai Spicy Angus Beef

For 2 persons
Ingredients:
200 g fillet of beef (Angus)
2 cloves garlic, peeled, germ removed and finely chopped, toasted in a little oil
For the marinade:
2 tablespoons soy sauce (not too salty)
1 tablespoon fish sauce
1 tbsp sunflower oil
2 small hot red Thai peppers, seeded, finely chopped
White pepper
Vegetable stock
1 bunch of fresh Thai basil

Preparation: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 10 minutes
Rest: 60 min
Total time: 85 minutes
Difficulty: Easy

How to make "Thai Spicy Angus Beef":
The meat should be cooked really quickly to keep all its finesse and tenderness. Therefore make it very thin slices, using a sharp knife. If necessary, put the meat in the freezer for 20 minutes to ease cutting. In a bowl, combine marinade ingredients. Add meat and mix well. To fry, add in a little oil around thirty basil leaves (the leaves should become transparent) then drain on paper towels. Add to meat preparation. Let it marinate about 1 hour. Heat a little oil in a skillet, put the meat quickly and moisten with a little broth with vegetables (some cl, no more). Let simmer 1-2 minutes and it's ready! Add at the last moment even basil, finely chopped fresh this time! Serve immediately.

Thai Pork Ribs

For 4 persons
Ingredients:
8 ribs of pork very thin
4 cloves of garlic
3 tablespoons of sugar
3 tablespoons of soy sauce
sprigs of mint fresh
4 tablespoons oil for frying

Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 5 minutes
Rest: 60 min
Total time: 70 minutes
Difficulty: Easy

How to make "Thai Pork Ribs":
  1. Degrease meat. Chop the garlic finely. 
  2. Prepare the marinade: Combine soy sauce, sugar and garlic in a bowl. Add pork ribs and coat well with marinade. Book for 1 hour. 
  3. Heat oil in skillet. Gently shake the meat and to fry 2 minutes on each side.

Friday, June 15, 2012

Red Curry Fish Ball

For 4 persons
Ingredients:
600 g white fish fillets, fresh or frozen
2 tablespoons Thai red curry paste
2 cloves of garlic
1 tablespoon cornstarch
2 tablespoons soy sauce
1 bunch cilantro
2 tablespoons fish sauce
1 tablespoon sugar
2 tablespoons of juice from lemon green
1 onion (or green onions) chopped
40 cl of milk coconut

Preparation: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 10 minutes
Rest: 30 min
Total time: 60 minutes
Difficulty: Easy

How to make "Red curry fish ball":
  1. Place the fish fillets in a blender with garlic, cilantro, soy sauce and cornstarch. 
  2. Prepare balls of 2 cm in diameter. Then put it in refrigerator for 1/2 hours to firm it. 
  3. Heat a teaspoon of oil in a wok or saucepan and fry the curry paste until fragrant. Gradually add the coconut milk, stirring constantly. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat. 
  4. Cook the dumplings in this mixture for 5 minutes over low heat. 
  5. Add lemon juice, sugar, fish sauce and green onion. Cook 2 minutes. 
  6. Sprinkle with coriander leaves and serve with jasmine rice (or other fragrant rice).

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Satay Ayam

For 4 persons
Ingredients:
800 g chicken
1 large clove garlic, minced
3 tablespoons of ginger chopped
10 cl of soy sauce
15 cl of milk coconut
3 tablespoons honey
6 tablespoons butter of peanuts
1 tablespoon curry
1 teaspoon cumin
1 teaspoon of turmeric
1 teaspoon of lemon grass skewers
For the decoration: peanuts , chopped

Preparation: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 10 minutes
Rest: 240 min
Total time: 270 minutes
Difficulty: Easy

Step by step to make "Satay Ayam":
  1. Soak the skewers (if it wooden) for 5 minutes. Cut chicken into small pieces. 
  2. In a bowl, combine all ingredients for sauce and add chicken. Let it marinate for at least 4 hours. 
  3. Pin the chicken pieces onto skewers and place on oven rack. Cook for 2 minutes remaining sauce in the microwave and mix if there are pieces. Add a little coconut milk if necessary. 
  4. Preheat the oven (180 ° C) if possible by combining heat and grill. Cook for 5 minutes, turn the skewers and cook for 3 minutes. 
  5. Serve the skewers with the sauce and peanuts.

Shrimp With Ginger and Lime

For 4 persons
Ingredients:
600g fresh shrimp medium
20g of fresh ginger (cut into thin sticks)
2 tablespoons of oil olive
4 tablespoons juice from lemon green
1 tablespoon soy sauce
fresh chopped cilantro
freshly grounded pepper

Preparation: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 3 minutes
Rest: 120 min
Total time: 133 minutes
Difficulty: Easy

Step by step to make "Shrimp With Ginger and Lime":
  1. Wash the shrimp and dry it. 
  2. Mix 2 tablespoons of lemon juice and olive oil in a bowl. 
  3. Add ginger and soy sauce to the bowl. Mix gently and soak the shrimp to in the mixture. 
  4. Wait 2 hours and then drain the shrimp. 
  5. Saute shrimp in skillet over high heat for 2 minutes. 
  6. Add the pepper and marinade and remaining lemon juice. Bring to a boil and cook for 30 seconds. 
  7. Sprinkle with chopped cilantro just before serving.

Friday, June 1, 2012

Pork Soup with Chinese Cabbage


For 4 persons
Ingredients:
4 fillets of pork
400 g of cabbage Chinese
A tomato
1 onion
2 cloves of garlic
of coriander powder
1 bouquet garni
2 tablespoons peanut oil
2 tablespoons soy sauce
1 pinch of chilli powder
salt , pepper

Preparation: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 40 minutes
Waiting: 0 min
Total time: 50 minutes
Difficulty: Easy

How to make "Pork Soup with Chinese Cabbage":
  1. Peel and chop onions and garlic. Heat a little oil in a pan and fry the onions and garlic. Add the bouquet garni and the tenderloins. Cook for 2 minutes. Remove the fillets and add 1.5 liters of water, let simmer 20 minutes. Filter while the broth obtained.
  2. Clean the cabbage, wash it and chop it finely. Peel the tomatoes and remove seeds and cut into the flesh into cubes.
  3. Pour the broth filtered in a saucepan and bring it to boil, add the cabbage and cook for about 15 minutes. Cut the pork into strips and add to soup. Let them poach for 3 minutes. Add at the last moment the soy sauce and pepper. 
  4. Divide into bowls and sprinkle with cilantro.