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A taste of Thai food
to spice up your palate LIGHT, aromatic and great to look at the Thai cuisine is fast becoming popular in our country. With most of the special ingredients available easily at departmental stores whipping up a Thai surprise is not that difficult anymore. This week we have brought some easy to prepare recipies to lend a Thai touch to your party menu. Oriental meatball soup Ingredients: For the soup Chicken stock 800 ml Lemon juice 1tbsp Lemon grass 1 stalk (chopped) Chillies (green) 3(chopped) Red chilli 1 Spring onions 2 (choppe) Fish sauce 1 tsp Salt and pepper to
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Mince (pork) (250 gm) Spring onions 3 chopped Garlic paste 1 tsp Green chillies 2 chopped Eggs 2 Bread crumbs ½ cup Salt and pepper Method: Mix all the ingredients required for making the meatballs and blend well. Divide into lemon-sized balls. Put the chicken stock, spring onions, fish sauce, chopped green chillies, salt and pepper in a pan and bring to a boil. Lower the flame and put meat falls in the simmering stock. Simmer till done and till the stock thickens slightly. Add the rest of the ingredients and bring to a boil. Serve hot. Spicy veg soup Ingredients: Vegetable stock 600 ml Lemon grass 80 g Macroot leaves 40 gm Mushrooms 80 gm (boiled) Green chillies 2 (sliced) Red curry paste 20 gm Lime juice 80 ml Coriander leaves 2-3 sprigs Method: Put vegetable stock in a pan and add lemon grass, macroot leaves and green chillies and bring to a boil. Add salt, red curry paste and mushrooms. Let it simmer for some time. Before serving add lime juice and garnish with coriander leaves. Warm salad in sauce Ingredients: Soy sauce 2 tbsp Dry sherry 1 tbsp Red chilli 1 (deseeded and chopped) Garlic 2 cloves (crushed) Curd 500 gm Onions 2 sliced Red pepper 1 (julienned) Green pepper 1 Baby corn 100 gm Egg noodles 125 gm (boiled) Spring onion 2 chopped Coriander leaves Vegetable oil 1 tbsp For the sauce: Vegetable stock ½ cup Lime juice 3 tbsp Soy sauce 3 tbsp Peanut butter ½ cup Garlic 2-3 cloves (chopped) Red chilli 1 Method: Mix soy sauce, sherry, chilli and garlic and add cubed bean curd in it. Toss till the marinade is well coated. Keep aside for 30 minutes. Drain. To make sauce:-Blend garlic, peanut butter, lime juice, soy sauce and red chilli in a blender. Slowly add vegetable stock while blending. Heat oil in a wok add onions and red and green peppers and stir fry for 4-5 minutes. Add baby corn and stir for some more time. Remove from the wok. Stir fry bean curd for a couple of minutes. Add the onion mixture and add noodles. Stir fry some more. Add the sauce and stir till all ingredients are well coated. Serve after garnishing with spring onion and coriander leaves. Lamb with bamboo shoots Ingredients: Mutton chops 4 Bamboo shoots 2 (medium sized) Ginger garlic paste 1 tbsp Oil 2 tbsp Soy sauce 1 tbsp Spring onions 8 (chopped) Chilli paste (sambal oelek) 1 tsp Five spice powder 1 tsp Rice noodles 250 gm White wine ¼ cup Mutton stock 1 cup Peanuts (crushed) 3 tbsp Salt and pepper to taste Method: Heat 1 tbsp oil in a wok add chops and cook for 3-4 minutes on each side till brown. Transfer these to a large sauce pan. Stir-fry 3/4 of spring onions and ginger garlic paste for 2 minutes. Add these to the sauce pan having chops. Add stock, soy sauce, sambal oelek, wine and five spice powder. Bring to a boil and reduce heat and simmer for 45 minutes to 1 hour or until mutton is cooked. Remove chops and shred meat. Drain cooking liquid and discard solids. Stir fry remaining spring onions in the wok for 2 minutes. Add shredded meat. Drain and slice the bamboo shoots and add to the meat. Stir fry for some time. Cook noodles, drain and spoon meat mixture over there and serve hot garnished with crushed peanuts. Phad Thai Kai Ingredients:
Rice noodles 800 gm Vegetable oil 3 tbsp Bean curd (fried) 200 gm Fish sauce 120 ml Sugar 120 gm Onions 2 (chopped) Lime juice 120 ml Moong sprouts 120 cm Peanut powder 1 tbsp Chilli powder 40 gm Eggs 8 Salt and pepper to taste Method: Heat oil in a wok. Add chopped onions and saute. Add fried bean curd and saute. Add rice noodles, fish sauce, sugar, lime juice, chilli powder and toss. Add sprouts and spring onions, and stir till well combined. Add peanut powder. Beat the eggs. Add salt and pepper to
taste. Grease a non-stick pan and pour in one fourth of the beaten egg.
Prepare a flat omelette and wrap one fourth of noodles in it. Make three
more packets with remaining ingredients. Serve hot. |