Rakhine food recipes

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

Ingredients

1. Clean and remove any hair on head by singeing or plucking.
2. Cut into 4 pieces and wash them.
3. Place the pieces of head into a large pot.
4. Pour the water to cover the pieces of head.
5. Grind together garlic cloves and 1 piece of ginger into a coarse paste.
6. Add sweet sauce , garlic coarse paste, salt and chicken stock into the pot.
7. Heat the pot over medium heat and wait until pig’s head is cooked well.                (Approximately, it takes about one hour.)
8. Roast the green chillies in a pan until the raw smell is gone.
9. Pound roasted green chillies, one onion and 1 piece of ginger into a coarse paste using a mortar and pestle.
10. Peel cucumber and slice in half lengthwise and cut into thin slices.
11. When the pig’s head is cooked well, chop them into the small pieces.
12. Put them into a big bowl and add the chilli paste, cucumber slices, salt, chicken stock.
13. Squeeze the slices of lime.
14. Mix them together and adjust the taste.
15. Cut the onion into slices.
16. Sprinkle onion slices over the salad.

Ingredients

1. 3 packs of glass noodles
2. 3 eggs
3. 4 medium potatoes
4. 5 or 6 teaspoons roasted chickpea powder
5. a lump of tamarind (Soak in water)
6. 6 teaspoons chilli paste
7. 1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder
8. 1/4 teaspoon shrimp paste
9. Onions slices (Approximately 2 medium onions)
10. A cup of coriander leaves

Ingredients