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Tomato and Cabbage salad (Sat Tha Ni)

Ingredients

1. 3 or 4 tomatoes
2. 3/4 of small cabbage
3. 1 onion (sliced)
4. 4 or 5 green chillies (Sliced)
5. Salt and chicken stock


How to do?

1. Cut tomatoes into very thin slices.
2. Set aside
3. Shred cabbage very thinly
4. Put tomatoes slices and cabbage slices into a bowl.
5. Add onion slices and green chilles slices
5. Mix all together
6. Add salt and chicken to taste

This salad and chicken curry are perfect match. :)

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Potato cake


Ingredients
 - 5 large potatoes
- 3 tablespoons corn flour powder
- 25 grams chopped meat (chicken or pork or beef)
- 2 medium onions (sliced)
- 6 or 7 green chillies
- 1/4 tbl turmeric powder
- Peanut oil for frying
- A pack of masala
- Salt and chicken stock
How to do?
1. Boil the potatoes until they are cooked and softened.
2. Peel the potatoes and mash.
3, Add salt and corn flour powder
4. Mix well together and set aside.
5. Heat oil (1 tbl) in a saucepan and fry the chopped meat
6.  Add masala powder, turmeric powder, onion slices, sliced green chillies, salt and chicken stock.
7. Keep stirring until it is cooked.
8. Take a lump of mashed potato and form a around 4cm dia ball of potato in your hand.
9. Flatten the potato into a disc and fill a spoon of cooked meat and wrap the potatoe into a flat ball.
10. Garnish the corn flour powder over the balls.
11. Preheat a deep fryer and drop the balls into the hot oil
12. Wait until they turn into golden color.

Potato cakes are ready for you. :)

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Roasted Ray Fish Salad


Ingredients

  1. ½ kg Ray Fish
  2. 10 – 15 green chillies
  3. 1 shallot
  4. 1 big onion (Sliced)
  5. 0.5 inch of ginger
  6. 1 lime (Sliced)
  7. A cup of coriander leaves
How to do?
  1. Roast ray fish in oven
  2. Debone the roasted fish.
  3. Roast green chillies in a flat pan.
  4. Pound green chillies together with shallot and ginger into a coarse paste.
  5. Mix deboned roasted fish and chillies paste.
  6. Squeeze lime slices to add lime juice.
  7. Add salt and chicken stock to taste.
  8. Sprinkle onion slices and coriander leaves.


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Rakhine green chilli paste




Ingredients

  1. 25 to 30 small green chilies
  2. 4 garlic cloves
  3. 1 tablespoon shrimp paste
  4. 1 tablespoon dried shrimp (optional)
  5. Salt and chicken stock

How to do?

  1. Roast green chillies in a pan until its skins are blistered.
  2. Place the roasted chillies into a mortar and pestle.
  3. Add shrimp paste, garlic cloves, dried shrimp paste, salt and chicken stock.
  4. Pound into a coarse paste.


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Bottle Gourd and Glass noodles soup


Ingredients

-          1 bottle gourd
-          1 pack (100 g) glass noodle
-          100 g dried bean curd
-          2 cups of fresh or dried black wood ear mushroom (optional)
(also called "tree ear" or "black fungus")
-          An thin omelette
-          1 cup of baby prawns
-          1 teaspoon of shrimp paste
-          A cup of coriander leaves
-          Salt and chicken stock
How to do?
  1. Peel and Cut the bottle gourd into serving size of pieces
  2. Soak bean curd and glass noodles
  3. Clean baby prawns and remove its shells
  4. Pound baby prawns into coarse paste and set aside
  5. Pour water as you desired into a medium pot
  6. Add baby prawns paste and shrimp paste
  7. Cook it over medium heat and bring a boil
  8. Add salt and chicken stock to taste
  9. Add bottle gourd pieces and soaked dried bean curd and mushrooms
  10. When bottle gourd pieces are cooked well, add glass noodles
  11.  Chop omelette into a small pieces
  12.  Sprinkle chopped omelette and coriander leaves over the soup


Please try it. It is so yummy.

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Green Eggplant with Small Potatoes (Kha Ran Thee nat Ar Lu Chay)


Ingredients

-         10 small green eggplants
-         50 kg small potatoes
-         10 green chillies (sliced)
-         1 tablespoon shrimp paste
-         Salt and chicken stock to taste
-         A cup of coriander leaves
How to do?

  1. Cut each eggplant into four parts.
  2. Cut small potatoes in half
  3. After they are washed, put them into a saucepan.
  4. Add chillies and shrimp paste
  5. Pour 2 cup of water
  6. Cook over a medium heat.
  7. When it starts to boil, add salt and chicken stock.
  8. After most of water has been absorbed, sprinkle coriander leaves.
 

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Shrimp and cucumber soup

 
Ingredients
 
  1. ½ kg medium shrimp
  2. 2 cucumbers
  3. 3 and ½ tablespoons red chilli paste
  4. 1 teaspoon of shrimp paste
  5. ¼ tablespoon of turmeric powder
  6. A cup of fresh basil leaves
  7. Salt and chicken stock
 
How to do?
      
1.    Devein and wash shrimps
2.    Peel cucumber and cut into serving-size pieces
3.    Place shrimps and cucumber slices in to a medium pot.
4.    Add Chilli paste and shrimp paste.
5.    And , add turmeric powder
6.    Add water as you desired
7.    Cook it over medium heat.
8.    When it gets boiled, add salt and chicken stock to taste.
9.    Add basil leaves.

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Fish head soup


Ingredients

- 1 Fish head (I used catfish head)
- 3 tablespoons of red chilli paste
- 2.5 tablespoons of peanut oil
- 1 shallot
- 5 cloves of garlic
- 1 inch piece of ginger
- ¼ tablespoon of turmeric powder
- 2 or 3 stalks of fresh lemongrass (Sliced)
- 2 lemons (Sliced)
- ¼ tablespoon of shrimp paste
- Salt and chicken stock
- A cup of coriander leaves or basil leaves


How to do?

  1. Clean and wash fish head
  2. Pound shallot, garlic and ginger together.
  3. Heat oil in a pot over low heat.
  4. Add chilli paste, turmeric powder, shallot, ginger, garlic paste and shrimp paste and sauté.
  5. Add fish head and pour water as you desired.
  6. Add sliced lemongrass and bring to a boil.
  7. Add squeezed lemon juice
  8. Add salt and chicken stock and adjust the taste.
  9. Sprinkle with coriander leaves or basil leaves.

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Squid Salad (Ra Gra Thoat)

Ingredients

  1. ½ kg squid
  2. 12 green chillies
  3. 1 shallot
  4. ½ inch piece of ginger
  5. 1 teaspoon of black pepper
  6. 1 lime (sliced)
  7. A cup of coriander leaves
  8. Salt and chicken stock

How to do?
 
  1. Pour some water into a pot and add 1/2 teaspoon salt.
  2. Heat to boiling over high heat               
  3. Clean squid and rinse them under cold running water.
  4. Add them to boiling water
  5. Cook until tender
  6. When they are cooked very well, drain water and let it be cool.
  7. After that, slice squid into rings or cut into serving-size pieces and set aside
  8. Roast green chillies in a pan until its skins are blistered.
  9. Pound roasted chillies, ginger, shallot and pepper together into a coarse paste.
  10. Mix squid slices and coarse paste in a big bowl.
  11. Add salt and chicken stock to taste
  12. Squeeze lime slices as you desire
  13. Sprinkle coriander leaves

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Thin rice noodle with fish soup (Rakhine Mone Ti)

I. Soup Base
Ingredients
- 1 kg yellow pike-conger Fish
- 2 pieces of ginger (1.5 inches for each)
- 3 tablespoons shrimp paste
- 15 garlic cloves
- 3/4 tablespoon black pepper
- 2.5 inches of galangal
- Salt and chicken stock to taste.

How to do
  1. Boil fish with ginger (1 piece) till it is cooked.
  2. Debone the fish and squeeze out the water by mashing.
  3. Take only water and set aside fish (it will be used for fish garnish)
  4. Strain the liquid in which fish has been boiled.
  5. Add shrimp paste into liquid and boil until it smells good.
  6. After that, cool until solids settle.
  7. Then, Take only the clear liquid.
  8. Add some more water as you desired into the clear liquid.
  9. Add blended of ginger, garlic cloves and pepper.
  10. Add roughly pounded galangal.
  11. Bring a boil
  12. Add Salt and chicken stock to taste

II. Thin Rice Noodle
Ingredient
-         1 kg thin rice noodle
How to do?
-         Soak noodle in water for 15 min
-         After that, boil it until it is soften.
-         Drain water and cool it with a splash of cold water.
-         Set aside for soup



III. Side Dishes
     
1.    1 onion (sliced)      
a.    Fried or fresh onion slices
2.    1 lime (sliced) or tamarind juice
3.    A cup of coriander leaves





4.    Fish garnish
a.    Add ½ teaspoon oil and ½ teaspoon turmeric powder into a fish that was set aside.
b.    Cook over low heat and stir until grainy.
5.    10 green chillies or 10 red dry chillies
a.    Blend the chillies
b.    For green chillies, cook them with fish
c.    For red dried chillies, sauté them.

6.    Roasted pork fat (optional)
7.    Sliced fish cake (optional)






8.    Crispy pea fritter  (optional)







How to serve?

1.    Place noodle into a bowl

2.    Pour soup base.

3.    Add onion, coriander leave, chillies

4.    Add sliced fish cake or roasted pork fat or fritter (If you wish)

5.    Adjust the taste with lime or tamarind juice and salt.

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Baked Saba Fish Salad

Ingredient

  1. 1 Saba fish
  2. 9 to 10 green chillies
  3. 1 shallot
  4. 2 inches of ginger
  5. 1 lemon
  6. A cup of coriander leaves
  7. Salt and chicken stock
How to do?
 
  1. Wash the fish and bake it directly on oven rack.
  2. Wait until it is cooked well.
  3. Remove the baked fish from oven
  4. Skin and debone the baked fish.
  5. Pound green chillies, shallot and ginger into a coarse paste.
  6. Add fish and chillies paste into a bowl.
  7. Add lemon juice by squeezing the slices.
  8. Mix well.
  9. Add salt and chicken to taste.
  10. Sprinkle over coriander leaves.
Baked saba fish salad is ready. J

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