Food Minia

Hor Mok (literally, wrap and hide and “Ta Lay” is from “Ah Han Ta Lay” means seafood) is a steamed curry custard in banana leaves. This dish is a common food in Cambodia , Laos and Thailand , each country’s Hor Mok has some slightly different ingredients but Thai Hor Mok is always with seafood and some kinds of fresh water fish. You can find this dish at Khoa Kheng Shop or and street food vendors to luxury Thai restaurants. The process is pretty straight forward even it has lots of different kinds of ingredients. It is better to use uncooked seafood for this dish so that it will mix and blend into fish and herb purée well. You can use any kind of seafood for examples (the popular ones in Thailand ) are shrimp, mussel and squid. You can either have only one kind of seafood or mix seafood in this dish. In traditional way we use banana leaves for wrapping or making bowls for the size of one serving, but nowadays many chefs use nice little glass or ...

Tod Man Pla or Thai Fish Cakes with red curry favour is a popular and well known dish. You can find this dish at street vendors to fancy restaurants in Bangkok . Original or in Thailand this dish is made from Clown featherback or Clown knifefish which is Southeast Asian fresh water fish. The textures of fish cakes from this kind of fish are tough, firm and resiling so this kind of fish is ideal for making fish cakes and fish balls. Fish balls in Thailand , are original from Chinese cuisine, and are made from king mackerel or mackerel family fish. Some Thai people use mackerel fish the kind that we have in Thai sea for making fish cake as well but it’s not that popular, because people have fixed the idea to the original one. Here we can find fresh king mackerel easily at a market so I use king mackerel for my fish cake recipe. The results from these two kinds of fish - Clown featherback and king mackerel, are very similar. For the curry paste, we use red curry paste for the favour but ...

Chu Chee or Choo Chee is the sound of sizzling in Thai, and because of the amount of curry is small comparing to other kinds of curry so the sound is loud.  The curry paste for this dish has the same ingredients as red curry paste, except it is not as hot as red curry because there are no fresh Thai chillies or Prik Kee Noo in Chu Chee curry paste, but there are only dried big chillies which are mild. If you’d like your Chu Chee dish spicy, you can always add some Prik Kee Noo in your curry paste. Chu Chee Curry is commonly with fish, but you may find some restaurants’ Chu Chee menu with shrimp as well. The curry sauce is supposed to be thicker, saltier and sweeter than ordinary curry as the fish is plain so you need the sauce to give some favours to the fish. Chu Chee dish is pretty common and popular dish in Thailand as you can find this dish from street vendors to luxury restaurants. For 2 - 3 servings  Spiciness: mild Ingredients 1  lb.         ...

Yam Makua Yao or Eggplant Salad is one of healthy and yummy popular “YAM” Thai dishes. Some recipes may have hard boiled eggs in this dish. For people who can not eat pork or don’t like pork then you can just simply change it to be chicken. 3 - 4 Servings. Spiciness: Medium Ingredients 2                         Large egg plants (Chinese Eggplants) 200 g.                  Pork mince 1 tsp                   Soy sauce 2 cloves              Garlic mince Pinch of salt 12                       Shrimp (size 31 -40 or any size) 3                         Shallots, slice thin or ½ cup of red onion 3 tbsp                 Lemongrass, slice very thin 2 tbsp   ...

Recently I broke the bread bin that I had been given as a wedding present over 30 years ago. I won't tell you how many years over 30 it is because I can't believe it myself. The bread bin had served me well, but it was one of those fold top ones that will eventually break and once that happens there is nothing to do but, gulp, throw it away. So I was bread bin less until this fabulous replacement arrived. Well, I must say that I am impressed. It is a solid piece of kit. Some of those bins that look like this one are really lightweight, but this is just heavy enough to make it feel like a good German car. It is quality and because it looks so good it has taken pride of place on my kitchen worktop.   There are only three colours to chose from, flint, shutter blue and clay but strangely enough these three colours are really all that you need. They blend in with the kitchen rather than dominating it, so I am really happy with the colour choices. So while it take pride of place it c...

I love soups. As far as I am concerned, they warm the sould as well as the belly so this is why I am particularly pleased with this broccoli and cauliflower soup as it does both of those things and then some. Now there is an added bonus to this soup and that is .... it is very low calorie. This is wonderful for those days, and we all have them, when you need to cut back and take a little fat off the belly. This soup is a way of filling your belly but not adding inches to it. Let me tell you that you will love this enough to make it any time not just on the days when you want to reduce. Serve with hot buttered toast for a wonderful not skinny treat. I worked out that this soup in total has only about 300 calories so that's just 75 calories per serving. You will need? 400g of broccoli and cauliflower florettes. I tend to buy the ready prepared packs in the supermarket, 1 onion (about 100g) 1 medium carrot 1 stalk of celery 1 knorr stock cube 100ml milk water salt and pepper to taste ...

Chicken Taquitos Mexican food dish  most often consisting of a small rolled-up  tortilla  and some type of  filling ,  including beef, cheese or chicken.  The filled tortilla is  crisp-fried . The dish is often topped with condiments such as sour cream and guacamole.   Corn (maize) tortillas are generally used to make taquitos; when flour tortillas are used, the dish is more commonly known as flautas.  In some areas,  taquito  refers not to the rolled-up tortilla dish, but rather a smaller version of the taco. Ingredients: 1 tablespoon olive oil, more for brushing tortillas 1 cup chopped onion 2 cloves garlic, chopped 1 teaspoon ground cumin 1 teaspoon paprika 1/2 teaspoon sea salt 1/4 cup chopped cilantro 2 cups shredded cooked chicken meat 2 cups low-sodium, gluten-free chicken broth 12 (6-inch) corn tortillas 1 cup crumbled queso fresco or shredded Monterey jack or cheddar Step 1: Preheat oven to 220°C and oil a baking sheet. Hea...