Grilled meat Thai salad (Yam Neua Yang)



Grilled Meat Thai Salad

Most Thai salad or "Yam" are easily cooked. We eat Thai salad with rice. Sometime Yam would be used as food eaten with alchoholic drinks. Here is the cheap and easy meat recipe for your dinner.

½ kg.Sirloin                               
1 cup Sliced onion 
½ cup Chopped spring onion
¼ cup Sliced cucumber                      

1 tbs. Chopped garlic
2 tbs. Crushed bird’s eye chili
1 cup Sliced tomato
¼ cup Fish sauce
3 tbs. Lime juice
Chinese pasley for topping

Grill sirloin to medium rare then sliced. Mix fish sauce, lime juice, and crushed bird's eye chili. Bring sliced sirloin, onion, leek, tomato and cucumber. Mix all the ingredients together.

If you interested in Thai food cooking, you can follow my blog (of cause!) or buy some cook books. The two books in this page are written by Mr. David Thompson, a famous chef that speciallized in Thai cooking. Frankly, I have not read them yet, but you can try them yourself.

P.S.I really interested in the book "Thai street food" by Mr. Thompson because I love street food very much. :)

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- http://variety.teenee.com/foodforbrain/20246.html



Thai steamed egg (Kai toon)

I'm a little bit busy that I almost forgot to post. Just try to figure out what blog can do. This is my first blog you know!

Anyway, here I am with another yummy egg dish. Steam egg is the dish we found in many Asian cuisine, like Japanese and Thai. It’s easy to cook. The taste is mild so you can serve it as a side dish to reduced spicy taste of other dishes. Since the taste is not so spicy, lots of family cooked this yummy egg  dish for their kids.


Thai steamed egg

 2 Eggs                        

2 cups Chicken stock            
½ tbs. Seasoning sauce         .

½ tbs. Soy sauce
Pounded pepper

Crack the egg and whisk with spoon. You should not use a fork or a whisk because they would create too much bubble. Add chicken stock, seasoning sauce and soy sauce, pounded pepper. Pour into steaming utensil. Steam with low temperature until it cooked.   

If you need a yummy smooth texture steam egg, just filter the egg with a sieve before you steam. You can also add some ingredient to make it more palatable, ie. ground pork, or top them before or after you steam it with shrimp, bacon, chili, etc.


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- http://www.bloggang.com/mainblog.php?id=bm2518&month=08-04-2011&group=1&gblog=57

Thai omelet (Kai Jeaw)

This is one of the most basic Thai food along with spicy grond chicken with holy basil. An authentic and easy omelet. Westerner usually eat omelet as a breakfast. In Thai we eat it anytime we hungry- breakfast, lunch, dinner. If you come to Thailand, you can find a lot of Thai street food selling rice with Thai omelets. It’s easy and cheap. Kind of Thai fast food in my point of view. 



Thai Omelet

2 Eggs
½ cup Vegetable Oil                     
1-2 tbs. Fish sauce (or soy sauce) 
   

Crack the eggs, add with a little fish sauce or soy sauce and beat the egg mixture together with a fork or a whisk. Put the oil in to the wok. (You should use iron wok or some deep pan) and set it on the stove. Heat the oil till it’s really hot (Get a thin smoke from the oil). Pour the egg into the wok. Do not scramble it, just wait until it’s cook then turn the egg upside down using the flipper or spade of frying pan. Wait until another side is also cook. Then eat with rice.


You can eat omelet alone or with chili sauce, ie. Sriracha sauce, ketchup, or fish sauce mixed with Thai paprika. Also you can put many ingredients in this authentic Thai recipe to make it tastier. For example I myself prefer omelet with onion and chili. Some of my friend love omelet with ground pork. Some may love omelet with pickle radish and topping with basil. Some mixed omelet with tomato, cheese, chopped spring onion, etc. Just use your immagination. 



If you want a crispy Thai omelet which is a favorite for many Thais, you should use a pot (yeah…a pot) instead of a wok, heat the oil till it really hot, pour the egg at least a foot above the oil through a sieve. It would be a crispy one.  

If you love cooking authentic Thai food like this easy omelet, I would recommend you to buy some ingredients that used a lot in Thai cuisine, like fish sauce, shrimp paste, soy sauce, seasonning souce, etc. In this recipes we use fish sacuce. I don't know which brand is the most popular in others countries, but in Thai the most renowned brand are Tiparos and Squid. You can buy fish sauce from Amazon.com down here. 

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- http://play.kapook.com/