Friday, March 9, 2012

Fancy Noodle packages filled with Shrimp and mushroom

 Fancy noodle packages filled with shrimp and mushroom or Kuew Tiew Lui Suan Gung ; ก๋วยเตี๋ยวลุยสวนกุ้ง. This is a very healthy recipe that I would like to share with you. I really hope you enjoy my Thai recipe.

Ingredients:
1 ) 1 package of flat noodle.
2) 18 shrimp
3) 7 dried shrimp
4) 3 carrots
5) 3 cloves garlic
6) 1 Tbsp oyster sauce
7) 2 Tbsp thin soy sauce
8) 1/2 Tbsp sugar
9) 1 tsp ground white pepper
10) 1 Tbsp canola oil
11) Cilantro, green lettuce, Farang cilantro ( Phak Chee Farang ) and Thai basil

Ingredients for the sauce:
1) 4 cloves garlic
2) 12 hot Thai chilies
3) 2 sprigs cilantro
4) 1 sprig Thai basil
5) 2 Tbsp sugar
6) 5 Tbsp water
7) 3 Tbsp lime juice
8) 2 Tbsp fish sauce

Preparation:
1) Put the noodle in the microwave for 1-2 minutes or until soft.
2) Open the package and cut the place noodle in a 6" x 8 " size. Set a side for the wrapper.

3) Bring the dried mushroom to soak with water for 15-20 minutes or until soft. Peel carrots and garlic. peel shrimp.
4) Mince garlic, grind shrimp, cut carrots in a small dice. When the dried mushroom is soft, cut into small dice.
5) Heat oil in a same pan on medium heat, When the oil is hot, add minced garlic.
6) Keep stir fried until fragrant.
7) Add carrot, Stir fried until the carrot almost cook.
8) Add mushroom.
9) Add ground shrimp and keep stir well until shrimp is getting cook.
10) Add oyster sauce, ground pepper, thin soy sauce and sugar.
11) Stir fry until all ingredients mix well.
12) Wash all vegetables. There are Phak Chee Farang, cilantro, geen lettuce and Thai basil.
13) Spread the wrapper on a working space, spoon a stir fried ground shrimp 2 Tbsp on the wrapper.
14) Add some Phak Chee Farang, cilantro, Thai basil and green lettuce.
15) Then fold it up, see the photos.


For making the hot sauce :
1) Stir t2 Tbsp of sugar and 5 Tbsp of water until dissolved.
2)Peel garlic, pick off the stems from Hot Thai pepper, Thai basil.
3) Cut garlic, fresh pepper into small pieces, chop Thai basil and cilantro.
4) Bring to the food processor with sugar water.
5) Add lime juice.
6) Add fish sauce and mix all ingredients get together.

Bring the hot sauce to serve with fancy noodle packages filled with Shrimp. Enjoy.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Vegetarian Stir fried yellow noodle

 Vegetarian Stir fried yellow noodle or Phad Mee Leang Jay; ผัดหมี่เหลืองเจ.
 Ingredients:
1) 1/2 package of  Lo Mein Noodle or 8 OZ ( 227g)
2) 10 dried Shiitakae mushroom
3) 5 carrot
4) 1 cup  Chinese chives
5) 2 cups bean sprouts
6) 4 cloves garlic
7) 1 Tbsp vegetarian mushroom oyster sauce
8) 2 Tbsp thin soy sauce
9) 1/2 Tbsp sugar
10) 1 tsp ground pepper
11) 2 Tbsp canola oil

Preparation:
1) Soak dried shitakae mushrooms with 2 cups water until soft.  This is noodle I use for the recipe.
 2) Pour 6 cups of water into the pot on high heat.
 3) When the water is boiling, put yellow noodle to boil for 3 minutes.
 4) When the yellow noodle is cooked, drained and set aside.

 5) Peel carrot, garlic, When mushrooms are soft, press out all water, cut stems, and slice into 1" length. Wash Chinese chives.
 6) Cut  carrot and mince garlic.
 7) Slice mushroom into 1" length and cut Chinese chive into 1 and 1/2 " length.
 8) Wash bean sprout.
 9) Ingredients for seasoning.
 10) Use the mortar and pestle to grind pepper.
 11) Heat oil in a pan on medium heat.
 12) When oil is hot, add minced garlic, fry until fragrant.
 13) Add cut carrot. Stir fried until almost cook.
 14) Add sliced mushroom.
 15) Add cooked noodle.
 16) Add ground pepper, vegetarian mushroom oyster sauce, thin soy sauce and sugar.
 17) Stir fry until all ingredients mix well.
 18) Add cut Chinese chives then mix together.
 19) Turn off the heat, add beans sprout then mix thoroughly.


 20) place Stir-fried yellow noodles on a serving plate and serve immediately. Enjoy !