Sour curry with canned fish

Sour curry with canned fish ( Gaeng Som Pla Kra Pong )

    “Som" in Northeast of Thailand, meaning sour, so "Gaeng Som" means curry has a sour taste. Kaeng Som is one of the most popular foods in Thailand.

    Today, lifestyles of the people who live in Bangkok or any big cities are busy. They rarely have time to cook, so they have to buy food. Rich man may go to a restaurant. The people who have little money may buy at a small roadside restaurant. And I'm pretty sure one of these foods must have Gaeng Som.

    There are many recipes for Gaeng Som (Thai curry sour). But today, I will introduce how to cook “sour curry with canned fish”

Ingredient 

1 can of canned fish

2 young watermelons or young gourds

cauliflower

2 tbsp of sliced chinese key

5 dried chilies, soaked in the water

3 shallots

1 tsp of shrimp paste

tamarind juice, fish sauce, a little sugar, a little salt

How to cook

1. Chinese key, dried chillies, shallots and salt, pound or blend these ingredients mixed together.

2. Add shrimp paste, pound until well mixed.

3. Wash young watermelon and cauliflower, then cut them into pieces.

4. Add the pounded spices into the boiling water. Wait about 1 minute.

5. Add young watermelon and cauliflower

6. When vegetables are almost cooked, add canned fish.

7. Season with fish sauce, sugar and tamarind juice.

8. Turn off the heat, scoop curry into bowls and serve while hot with rice.

more

- You can use other vegetables such as green papaya, string bean, Cantonese Chinese cabbage.

- You can pound canned fish with the spices, or put a later time.

- If you do not have tamarind juice. You can substitute with lemon juice. But the recipe of Thai,we only use tamarind juice.