Sour and spicy pork ribs soup

Sour and spicy pork ribs soup is easy food. We use a few ingredients.

Sour and spicy soup is sour and salty.

We should choose fresh pork ribs. Because the soup will not stink.

This menu is a mix with the shrimp paste. If you do not like the smell of it, you can substitute with salt.

This menu must be eaten with rice and eat while hot. Will be more delicious.

Ingredient

Pork ribs 1 / 2 kg.

5-7 dried chillies

7 Shallots

1 tsp of shrimp paste

Tamarind juice, fish sauce, coriander

How to do it

1. Wash pork ribs thoroughly. Cut into pieces about 1 inch

2. Roast dried chillies until fragrant. Do not use high heat, beware of burning dried chillies.

3. Pound shallots and shrimp paste until fine.

4. Heat water to boiling. Then add shallots and shrimp paste has been pounded, stir to melt.

5. Put pork ribs, simmer until tender.

6. Add dried chillies, season with fish sauce, tamarind juice and taste it.

    If a Thai recipe, taste of the soup must be sour and salty.

7. Scoop soup into bowls and sprinkle with coriander.

More

If you like more spicy. You can add smashed paprika or cayenne pepper

Tom Yum Goong (Spicy soup with shrimps)

     Tom Yum Goong (Spicy soup with shrimps)
"Tom Yum Goong" is the most favorite thai food for foreigners because of its spicy flavor but not too hot. But, you know? There are many kinds of Tom Yum in Thailand.

     Today we are cooking Tom Yum Goong. There are simple ways you can do it yourself.
I guarantee that it's equally delicious cook by Thai people.









Ingredients

7-8 of the shrimps
1 cup oyster mushrooms
1 lemongrass
3 kaffir lime leaves
2 coriander roots
5 grains of pepper
1 teaspoon of salt
2 the coriander
5 of fresh chili
2 lemons
Fish sauce, vegetable oil, chili paste


How to cook
1. Rinse the shrimp thoroughly. Carved out of the Shrimp shells, and cut on the back of the shrimp
2. Lemon grass, cut into pieces.
3. Coriander roots, pepper, and salt, pound these ingredients mixed together. Then fried in vegetable oil until fragrant.
4. Boil water. When boiling add the fried ingredients at the moments earlier into the pot
5. Add lemon grass, kaffir lime leaves and chili into the pot
6. Add shrimps, wait until the shrimp are cooked, and add the oyster mushrooms. Wait a few minutes then reduce the heat down.
7. Season with fish sauce, lime juice and chili paste
8. Scoop the spicy shrimp soup into bowl and sprinkle with coriander.


More
- You can substitute the oyster mushrooms with shiitake mushroom or straw mushrooms.
- You can put the shrimp were not cut or sliced into pieces.

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.