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Pad kra pao

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Pad kra pao is one of the most popular dishes in Thai cuisine. Rice cooked with pak choi is served with ground pork and fried eggs. Ingredients Main course For 4 people 250 g of long grain rice 4 tablespoons of butter 7 l of vegetable broth 4 small pak choi 1 shallot 2 cloves of garlic 2 limes 1 bunch of aromatic herbs, eg. coriander 3 tablespoons of sunflower oil 600 g of minced pork 4 eggs 2 tablespoons of sambal oelek How to proceed Preparation: ca. 40 minutes Toast the rice in half the butter. Set aside 1 dl of broth and blend the rice with the rest. Cover and simmer over medium heat for approx. 20 minutes, until all the liquid is absorbed. Halve the pak choi lengthwise. Halfway through cooking, add them to the rice and cook them together. Meanwhile, chop the shallot. Mash the garlic with a knife. Squeeze the limes. Chop the aromatic herbs. Heat the oil in a pan and brown the garlic, shallots and minced meat over medium heat for approx. 10 minutes. Sprinkle with the stock set aside

Oriental beef salad

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Just marinate the fillet of beef in soy sauce with grated ginger and garlic, cook it and cut it into slices and then serve it with spring onions. Ingredients Main course For 4 people 40 g of ginger 4 tablespoons of sweet soy sauce 2 cloves of garlic 250 g of beef fillet in one piece ½ cucumber 3 spring onions ½ bunch of coriander ½ bunch of mint 60 g of mung bean sprouts Sauce 5 tablespoons of lime juice 1 tablespoon of fish sauce 1 tablespoon of brown sugar How to proceed Preparation: ca. 30 minutes Marinade overnight Total time: 12 h 30 min The day before, for the marinade, finely grate the ginger in the soy sauce. Squeeze the garlic. Let the meat marinate in the marinade overnight. On the day of preparation, dab the fillet. Brown it well in a pan over high heat for approx. 3 minutes. Let it cool down. For the sauce, mix all the ingredients. Cut the fillet into thin slices and mix with the sauce. Let it rest for at least 5 minutes. For the salad, halve the cucumber, remove the seeds