[Salad] Nhoim Kra-ao Chhouk

Ingredients: crunched peanuts 2 spoon of fish sauce 1 spoon sugar 1/2 spoon lime juice 1 bowl of young lotus rootlets. 1 carrot, shredded 1 hot pepper 1/2 spoon minced garlic 2 piece chicken breast, cooked and shredded Khmer basils (Chi Krahom) Preparation: 1. Mix sugar with fish sauce, lime juice, hot pepper and minced garlic 2. Add all vegetables and meat, mix well. 3. Adjust your taste, sprinkle crunched peanuts and basils over it prior to servi...

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[Salad] Spring Rolls

Ingredient: Cooked pork shred or shrimp peanut crunch or rosted rice crunch khmer white noodle carrot shreds cucumber mints peanut crunch or rosted rice crunch green lettuce rice paper Preparation: 1. Mix the meat with crunch peanut or roasted rice crunch. 2. Soak the rice paper sheet in warm water, lay flat on a plate. 3. place the meat, and other vegies inside, wrap and roll it nicely. 4. serve it with sweet/sour fish sau...

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[Salad] Nhom Kroch Thlong

Ingredients: For The Sauce: 1 cup of fish sauce 1 cup of vinegar 2 cup of sugar 4 cup of boiled water 1 full spoon of minced garlic 1/2 cup of thin sliced small purple onion. Mix them all together, let it stand for a few hours before serving. For the salad: 2 teaspoon of dried rosted garlic 1 kroch tlong, clean and chopped. 1 lb of shrimp, clean and cooked prior to mixing Preparation: Mix the ingredient together, pour 1/2 cup of the mixed sauce in, stir, and adjust your taste. For Decoration: Add fried chili, boiled eggs, and green lettu...

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[Salad] Plea Sach Ko

Ingredient: For the sauce: 1 spoon of cooked prahok 1 spoon of lime juice 1 spoon of sugar 1/2 cup of boiled water 1 spoon of minced garlic 1/2 cup of thin sliced small purple onion. Mix them all together, let it stand aside. For Salad Dish: 1 lb beef/ slice thin 1 handful of thin sliced lemon grass 1 spoon of whiskey 2 spoon lime juice 1 handful bean sprouts 1 handful of shredded carrots, celery, and cabbage 1 teaspoon chopped chili 1 handful of khmer mints a handful of crunched roasted peanuts Preaparation: 1. Marinate the meat with whiskey, lime juice, lemon grass 2. Squeeze the juice off the meat very thouroughly, mix the juice with...

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[Salad] Nhom Sbaek Chrouk

Ingredients: crunched peanuts 2 spoon of fish sauce 1 spoon sugar 1/2 spoon lime juice 1 small bowl of shredded cooked pork skins. some shredded papaya and carrots 1 hot pepper a few piece of cherry tomato 1/2 spoon minced garlic 2 piece chicken breast, cooked and shredded khmer basils (Chi Krahom) Preparation: 1. Mix sugar with fish sauce, lime juice, hot pepper and minced garlic, mix well, leave it for a few minutes. 2. Add all vegetables and pork skins, mix well. 3. Adjust your taste, sprinkle crunched peanuts and basils over it prior to servi...

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[Food] Tom Yum Grilled Shrimp

Ingredients: 1 pound shrimp (peeled and deveined) 2 stalks lemongrass (peeled and chopped, or lemon zest or myrtle leaves) 3 cloves garlic 1 thumb sized piece galangal (or ginger, peeled and chopped) 1+ birds eye chili (or other hot chili or 1 teaspoon chili sauce, etc.) 1/4 cup cilantro (chopped) 1 lime (juice and zest) 2 green onions (sliced) 1/2 teaspoon shrimp paste 2 tablespoons fish sauce 2 tablespoons oil 2 tablespoons palm sugar (grated or sugar) Directions: 1. Place the lemon grass, garlic, galangal, chili, cilantro, lime juice and zest, green onions, shrimp paste, fish sauce, oil and palm sugar in a foor processor and process. 2....

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[Food] Cold Crawfish Dip

Prep Time: 15 Min Cook Time: 15 Min Original Recipe Yield 20 servings Ingredients 1/2 cup butter 2 pounds crawfish tails, with fat 4 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, room temperature 1 bunch green onions, chopped 1 cup mayonnaise 1/2 teaspoon hot pepper sauce (e.g. Tabasco™), or to taste 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce, or to taste Directions Melt butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Add half of the green onions, and cook until wilted. Add the crawfish tails, reduce heat to medium-low, and simmer for about 10 minutes. Set aside to cool. In a large bowl, stir together the cream cheese and mayonnaise until well blended. I like to use...

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[Food] Easy Chicken Pad Thai (without tamarind)

If you're living in a place where Asian ingredients are difficult to find, then this [tamarind-free] recipe might just make your day. ENJOY! Prep Time: 25 minutes Cook Time: 15 minutes Total Time: 40 minutes Yield: SERVES 3-4 Ingredients: 9 oz./250 g. pad Thai rice noodles (click on link to see what these look like) 3/4 lbs./.34 kg. boneless chicken thigh or breast, cut into small pieces or strips 1.5 Tbsp. soy sauce* 4 cloves garlic, minced 1 fresh red or green chili, sliced 1 thumb-size piece galangal OR ginger, grated 4 green onions, sliced 1 egg 2-3 cups bean sprouts 1/3 cup dry-roasted unsalted peanuts or cashews, ground or roughly chopped...

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[Drinks] Teuk Krolok Plae Lahong (Papaya Drink)

Papaya icy drink is very taste for a hot afternoon for only $1 in Phnom Penh restaurant along the Mekong river side just a bit north of the royal palace. That's a very cool and nice drink for your health. Sitting on the patio looking over the beautiful garden, with a sip of this drink to cool off and enjoy laughing with friends for a break would be the best choice of a...

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[Drinks] Coconut Drink

Mango cubes with fresh young coconut meat topped with roasted coconut as icy dessert for a hot afternoon is one of the best choice. Have you ever tried this for your dri...

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[Dessert] Ansom Chek

Ingredient: ripe banana red mung beans coconut milk sugar salt sweet rice Direction: Soak the sweet rice with water the night before. drain the rice on the next day. mix the rice with steamed red mung beans, coconut milk, sugar and a bit of salt. lay the rice on a piece of banana leaf put a piece of banana in the middle. wrap it and steam it till cook....

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[Food] Hor Mok

Ingredients: Kreurng: lemon grass, kaffir lime leaves, rumdeng, kchai, romeat, ktim sor, ktim krahom, mtess krahom kream, (blend well together in a blender or a khmer mortar by pounding) 500g fish fillet, cut in cubes 3 spoon fish sauce 1/4 spoon salt 1/2 spoon sugar 1 cup coconut milk 1 spoon of wheat flour or rice flour 2 eggs 1 cup of water shredded kaffir lime leaves shredded red bell pepper a few leaves of chinese broccolli (Khat Na) Preparation: 1. Heat two spoon of coconut milk till it boils, add the ingreedient pastry, stir till it gets dry. 2. Add fish sauce, salt, sugar, stir 3. Add the fish cubes, stir. 4. Mix the flour with the...

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[Food] Chicken with Natang Sauce

Ingredients for red pastry: 1/4 teaspoon of salt 2 stalks lemon grass and sliced them super thin 5 clove garlic two red dried chili 1/4 teaspoon tumeric powder or one tiny piece of tumeric root Pound or blend the ingredients together till it becomes a red sticky paste. Ingredients to marinate the meat 1 spoon red paste from above 1 spoon sesame oil 1/4 teaspoon salt two teaspoon sugar 1 spoon oyster sauce 2 lb chicken filet Ingredients for the dipping sauce 1 spoon red paste from above 1/2 cup coconut milk one spoon oyster sauce a handful of crunch dry roasted peanut 1 spoon of sesame oil 3 spoon fish sauce 1 spoon oyster sauce two teaspoon...

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[Food] Prahett

Ingredient: 500g white fish fillet 2 stalks lemon grass 6 cloves garlic 1/4 tea spoon salt 1/2 tea spoon sugar 2 stalks green onion slice in small pieces cooking oil Preparation: 1. Grind or pound garlic with lemon grass. 2. Pound the fish filet in the Khmer mortar till sticky, then add lemon grass and garlic. Pound till it get sticky. Use salt water to help with the process 3. Add sugar, salt and green onion, mix well. 4. Heat the oil and deep-fry the fish ball till golden brown. 5. Serve with sweet and sour sauce or with khmer papaya sweet/sour salad (Chruok Lahong) Or 6. Serve with Nom Banh Chok teuk trey sa...

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[Food] Sweet and Sour Pork

This sweet and sour pork is prepared American-style with more batter and deep-fried twice for extra crispiness. Ingredients: 3/4 pound pork tenderloin 2 - 3 teaspoons soy sauce Pinch of cornstarch Sauce: 1/4 cup sugar 2 tablespoons ketchup 2 tablespoons dark soy sauce 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup water or reserved pineapple juice 1/4 cup vinegar 1 tablespoon cornstarch dissolved in 4 tablespoons water Batter: 1/3 cup flour 1/3 cup cornstarch 1 egg white, lightly beaten 1 tablespoon vegetable oil  1/3 cup warm water, as needed Other: 1 carrot 1/2 red bell pepper 1/2 green bell pepper 1/2 cup pineapple chunks 3 cups oil for deep-frying, or...

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[Food] Thai Green Papaya Salad Recipe ("Som Tam")

This green papaya salad, known as som tam, is popular in most areas of Thailand, and when you taste it, you'll know why. The slightly tart flavor of the green papaya combines well with the spice of red chili pepper and the saltiness of shrimp paste and fish sauce, plus the sweetness of honey. Green papaya salad is a beautifully unique and flavor-filled dish that will make a great impression. It's also easy to make, low-calorie, and very nutritious. So try this Som tam recipe for dinner tonight! Prep Time: 30 minutes Total Time: 30 minutes Yield: SERVES 4 as a Side Dish Ingredients: 1 small green papaya, OR 1/2 large (your papaya should be very...

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[Food] Thai Red Curry Recipe

Thai red curry is one of the most famous Thai curry dishes, and one of the most flavorful as well. This Thai Red Curry Recipe is fragrant and sumptuous, and can be made anywhere from mild to red-hot, depending on how much spice you prefer. It starts with a homemade Thai red curry paste which is easily put together with your food processor or blender. Add coconut milk, chicken, and some vegetables of your choice, and you have a healthy and hearty curry dish that will awaken your senses and boost your mood. Best of all, this sumptuous dish is easy to make, and most of the ingredients come straight out of your pantry (or see my handy substitutions)....

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[Food] Easy Classic Chicken Curry (with Curry Powder)

This Easy Curry Recipe is made with curry powder for fast and delicious results! This is a classic curry chicken dish that will please all tastes, whether you prefer Indian or Southeast-Asian style curry. Add your own choice of additional vegetables (green beans, okra, or eggplant work well), and you can also choose your preferred cooking method - either stovetop or in the oven. Any way you cook it, this easy curry is bound to please even the toughest curry critic at your table. ENJOY! Prep Time: 15 minutes Cook Time: 30 minutes Total Time: 45 minutes Yield: SERVES 3-4 (with rice) Ingredients: 1 lb chicken breast or thigh, chopped into small...

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[Food] Lort Sarathey

INGREDIENTS: 300g shredded taro roots 200g ground pork 100g crunched roasted peanut 5-10 stalks spring onions 3 small red onions 1/5 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon sugar 1/4 teaspoon hot pepper 2 Eggs rice paper PREPARATION: 1. Mix the taro with the meat and add all ingredients. Mix them well. 2. On one sheet of rice paper, place half a spoon of the mixture in finger-like shape, Roll it tight. 3. Heat the oild hot. Deep fry to brown and drain it. 4. Serve with sweet and sour fish sauce or khmer vegie pick...

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[Food]Prahett Chien

Ingredients: 500g frest fish paste 2 stalk of green onion 1 teaspoon of black pepper 3 garlic cloves 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon sugar 1 teaspoon fish sauce Preparation: 1. Pound them together till it mix very well 2. Roll it into small ball and deep fry till golden brown. 3. Slice into pieces 4. Serve with white rice or serve in khmer noddle salad with sweet sour fish sauce topped with crunched peanu...

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