Thai mung bean noodle soup with shrimp

Thai mung bean noodle soup with shrimp or "Wun Sen Kuay-Tiaw Tom Yum Gung" in Thai. I made it again with mung bean noodle. I made this soup with rice noodle with fish last time. http://amporn-oleski.blogspot.com/2010/04/thai-small-rice-noodle-soup-with-ground.html I have to be honest at this time that I am lazy to make fried garlic. I bought fried garlic from Asian grocery. That save some more time to make the dish. If you can't find it on the market you can see the old entry of my blog.

Ingredients for Soup:
1) 4 cups water
2) 1/8 tsp salt
3) 2 Tbsp thin soy sauce
4) 2 cilantro roots
5) 1 tsp sugar

Ingredients for noodle:
1) 2 coils mung bean noodle
2) 15 shrimps
3) 2 tsp fried garlic
4) 2 cup bean sprout ( substitute cabbage, celery or napa)
1) 1 green onion
2) 8 sprigs cilantro
3) 1/8 pepper powder

Ingredients for the sauce:
1) 2 Tbsp fish sauce
2) 1 tsp ground dried chili
3) 2 Tbsp lime juice
4) 4 Tbsp ground roasted peanuts
5) 1 Tbsp sugar

Preparation:
1) Soak mung bean noodles with water for 10 minutes, drain, and set aside.
2) Clean and peel shell shrimps then set aside.
3)Wash bean sprout, drain and set aside.
4)Wash cilantro and green onion, cut into small pieces and set aside for garnish.

5) Pour water into the pot. Add salt and cilantro roots and bring to boil. When the water is boiling, add thin soy sauce, sugar. Then turn the heat to low.
6) Use the mortar and pestle grind roasted peanuts.

7) In a small mixing bowl, add fish sauce, lime juice, sugar and ground peanuts.
8)Stir well until all ingredients get together. Set aside.
9) In a pot, pour water to boil on high heat. When the water is boiling, scald bean sprout until get soft.
10) Then place to the bowl.
11) Bring mung bean noodle to scald for a few seconds until get soft.
12) Place to a bowl.
13) Here is fried garlic that I bought from Asian grocery. 14) Add 1 tsp each bowl and stir thoroughly, and set aside.
15) Pour the mixture of sauce on the bowl.
16) Boil shrimps for a minute until cook in hot water.
17) Add cooked shrimp into a bowl.
18) Add cut green onion and cilantro.
19) Pour the hot soup on the bowl and sprinkle with pepper power and ready to be serve. Enjoy!

Thai Mung Bean Noodles Spicy Salad ( fresh chili)

Thai Mung Bean Noodles Spicy Salad ( fresh chili) or " Yum Wun Sen" in Thai. This is my favorite healthy salad Yum Wun Sen. Here I made with fresh chili and shrimp. I will try to make a different ways with ground shrimp, dried chili and roasted peanuts.

Ingredients:
1) 1 coil mung bean noodle
2) 15 shrimps
3) 4 green onions
4) 4 sprigs cilantro
5) 1 onion
6) 1/2 Tbsp sugar
7) 2 and 1/2 Tbsp fish sauce
8) 2 and 1/2 Tbsp lime juice
9) 1 can straw mushroom
10) 1 tomato
11) 6 fresh chilies

Preparation:
1) This is mung bean noodle. There is many kind of package. You just find the one that you like. I prefer to have the one that have small coil in package. It's easy to take out to cook.
2) Bring to soak water for 10 minutes. Then cut into 4 " long strips.
3) Clean shrimps and peel shell.
4) Here is straw mushroom that come with the can. You can find at Asian grocery.
5) Cut fresh chilies into small pieces.
6) Wash cilantro and cut into small.
7) Cut the end of green onions and wash dirt. Cut green onion roots and cut green onions into 1 " length.
8) Peel onion and wash dirt, then thinly slice. Wash tomato and open half, take the seed out and cut it.
9) Boil water in a pot.
10) When the water is hot, scald mung bean noodles until clear , drain then remove to the mixing bowl.


11) Scald straw mushroom until cook, drain and remove to the mixing bowl.

12) Scald shrimps in the boiling water.
13) In small mixing bowl, add sugar, lime juice, fish sauce and cut fresh chilies. Stir well.

14) Add cut green onions.
15) Add cut cilantro.
16) Add cut tomato and onion.
17) Add cooked shrimps.
18) Pour dressing and stir thoroughly.

19) Enjoy your yum wun sen.