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Thursday, March 1, 2012

[Food] Thai Panang Curry


Preparation: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Spicy Level: mild
Served 2

Ingredients:

  • Chicken fillet sliced 350 g
  • Coconut cream 1 cup
  • Coconut milk 1 cup
  • Panang curry paste 1 tbsp
  • Dry roasted peanut pounded 1 tsp
  • Red chili pepper sliced diagonally and thinly 1 whole
  • Vegetable oil 1 ½ tbsp
  • Kaffir lime leaves 6-8 leaves
Seasoning:
  • Fish sauce ½ tbsp
  • Palm sugar 2 tbsp or 1 block
  • Salt ½ tsp

Let's get started!

How to make:

  1. Fry the panang curry paste and pounded roasted peanut with oil in a pot over low heat until fragrant or a few minutes. Make sure you don’t fry the curry paste too long which will dry and stick to the pot.
  2. Simmer coconut cream by gradually pour in and slowly stir until you can see red oil from coconut cream and the curry paste floats on top surface.
  3. Add coconut milk and chicken until cooked though.
  4. Add torn kaffir lime leaves.
  5. Seasoning with palm sugar, salt and fish sauce.
  6. Remove from the heat.
  7. Garnish with thinly sliced red chili pepper and thinly sliced kaffir lime leaves.
  8. Serve with steamed jasmine Rice.

Cooking Note

  • your curry should firstly taste of a slightly sweet from palm sugar, follows by the richness and thickness of sauce combining with a full flavor of spices, and lastly the oiliness from coconut cream

[Food] Steamed Wonton


Preparation: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Served 4-6

Ingredients:
  • Wonton wrappers 25 pieces
  • Minced pork 150 g
  • Minced prawn 250 g
  • Garlic finely chopped 1 clove
  • Coriander root wash and finely chopped 1 roots
  • Onion finely chopped 1 whole
  • Rice flour 1 1/2 tbsp
  • Spring onion finely chopped 1 tbsp
  • Fried garlic in oil 3 tbsp

Seasoning:
  • Light soy sauce 2 tbsp
  • Sweet soy sauce 1 tsp
  • salt 1 tsp
  • White pepper 1 tsp
  • Let's get started!
How to make:
Step 1 – Marinate


  1. Marinate minced pork, minced prawn with garlic, onion, rice flour, spring onion and season with light soy sauce, sweet soy sauce, salt and white pepper.
  2. Knead the mixture until thoroughly combined.
  3. Leave it to marinate at least 15 -20 minutes.

Step 2 – Filling the wonton


  1. Place a wonton wrapper on your palm, and place a full teaspoon of filling in the middle of a wrapper.
  2. Hold each end upward and tightly.
  3. Continue with the rest of wonton wrappers.

Step 3 – Steaming

  1. Steam the wontons on medium to high until cooked through.
  2. Coat the steamed wontons with fried garlic in oil before serve.
Cooking Note

  1. To make fried garlic in oil, simple finely chop the garlic. Heat ¼ cup of oil in a frying pan over medium heat. Fry garlic until golden brown.
  2. You can buy varied wonton sauces in most of Asian stores.