Green Apple Sour and Spicy Salad

Same idea as green papaya salad just change the main ingredient from green papaya to green apple :) It is very light and nice especially for the full summer like now. 

Ingredients :

1 green apple

2 small carrots (grated)

1 tbs dried salted prawn

3-4 cherry tomatoes

Salad dressing ;- salt, chili powder, syrup, lemon juice and honey

Cut an apple and tomatoes into small pieces, grate carrots and put everything in a salad bowl included dried salted prawn. Season with salad dressing, mix it well together and it ready to serve!

Spicy Pickled Bamboo Soup with Fish

Since I came here in Italy (2 years ago) For some reasons I never made this dish at all :( even it is the one of my favorite. Why??? I can't find any answer :D  but finally I did yeah yeah! The dish is really E-San style ... we don't use coconut milk as much as the central (I think not at all) The taste is similar to Tom Yum, the sour is not from lime juice but from the pickled bamboo shoot. 

Ingredients :
150 g. fish (any kind you like)
200 g. pickled bamboo shoot
500 ml. fish broth
lemon basil
fish sauce
sugar
Paste (the ingredients for the paste is in below)

I use the one in the plastic bag

Paste

5 cloves of garlic

2 shallots

5-10 dried chilies (depend on how spicy you like)

3 sliced Galangal

Ground everything in a mortar or food processor 

Clean the pickled bamboo shoot with water 2-3 times

These are the lemon basil, it is the one of many Thai basils we have

if you see it close you will see lot of white hair under the leave

How to cook : 

1. Put 500 ml. of fish broth in the pot, when it boiled then put the paste and wait until it boiled again.
2. Put fish and wait until it cooked. I suggest not to stir it because we believe the soup will smell fishy. 
3. When the fish cooked, try the soup and season with fish sauce and a bit of sugar. I put a bit of pickled fish sauce because I love the taste of it :) Very E-San style.
4. Put lemon basil and shut the fire of. It's ready to serve! 

Thank you for your attention, I hope you enjoy it more or less ;) See you next recipe soon!

Stir Fried Rice Noodle (E-San Style)

I love this dish so much, I love to have it with green papaya salad (of course E-San style). How to cook is quite simple for Thai kitchen because the ingredients are the stuff that we actually always have in the kitchen. For the meat ... it is not important because you can cook it without meat and it still delicious anyway :) let's see how to make it.

Rice noodle (soak it in the water for at least 10 minutes), green onion and soy bean sprouts, ground pork or whatever meat you prefer ;)

Chopped 2 shallots and 3-4 cloves of garlic

From left to right : Vegetable oil, soy bean paste, vinegar, fish sauce, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, tamarind juice and palm sugar.

Warm 3 tbs of vegetable oil in a pan and soften chopped garlic and onion a couple minutes, then put ground pork and cook until it changes color. Put soy bean paste, vinegar, fish sauce, light and dark soy sauce and palm sugar (regular sugar can be used instead). With the low fire, let it cook until the sauce gets thick and brown. Try the sauce in the way you like, it should taste sweet and salty and just a bit sour.

Put rice noodle and raise up the fire, stir and mix it well together with the sauce. Add some water if the noodle get too dry. When the noodle cooked then put green onion and soy bean sprouts, let it cook 1 minute and then it is ready to serve.

Fried eggs like in the pictures or grounded peanuts can be added in this dish. I prefer just the fried egg. As I said at the beginning, this dish goes well with green papaya salad and some other things such as grilled chicken and Thai sausage. 

Thank you for your attention and enjoy the Thai cuisine with me :)