Thai style fish rice porridge or Joke Pla

Thai style crab rice porridge or Joke Pla; โจ๊กปลา in Thai. 

This recipe for two bowls of Joke Poo
Ingredients for the rice:

1) 2 cups cooked jasmine rice.
2) 4 cups water
3) 1/8 tsp salt
4) 2 Tbsp thin soy sauce

Ingredients for the soup :
1) 2 " length ginger
2) 5 cups ginger juice
3) 1/4 tsp salt
4) 0.59 Lb of haddock  fish
5) 1/8 white pepper

Ingredients for the garnish :
1) ground white pepper powder
2) thin soy sauce
3) finely slivered fresh ginger
4) finely sliced green onions
5) fried garlic

Preparation:

1) Boil cooked jasmine rice with water. Keep stirring constantly until the rice is very soft and breaks apart. I used whisk to broke apart of the rice for save sometime or you can use food processor.

2) When the rice breaks a part, set a side. Wash dirt from green onions.

3) Prepare the broth using a fresh ginger. Peel ginger and cut into small pieces.  Bring into a a blender. 

4) Strained to get 1/2 cup ginger juice, pour 5 cups water to boil, add salt and ground white pepper. When the soup is boiling for two minutes.

5) Wash haddock fish, cut into a small bite.

6) When the soup is boiling for two to three minutes. Bring the fisht to boil until cooked.

7) When the fish is cooked, take it out from the pot gently.

8) Turn off the heat and save the soup for next steps.  In another small pot, scoop cooked rice on medium to high  heat.

9) Pour 1 and 1/2 cups of broth into a pot,  

 10) Keep stirring constantly and season with salt and thin soy sauce.

11) Let it boil another two minutes, place the hot Joke into a bowl.

12) Here is the ingredients for garnish.

13) Top the rice porridge with cooked fish, fried garlic, sliced green onions, slivered fresh ginger and sprinkle with Thai pepper powder. Enjoy it. :-) 

Stir-fried spicy spaghetti with shrimp



stir-fried spicy spaghetti with shrimp; drunken spaghetti  or Phad Kee Mao Spaghetti; ผัดขี้เมาเส้นสปาเก็ตตี้. I try to cook the Phad Kee Mao by using spagetti and add some kaffir lime leaves and green peppercorns on the dish. It is simple and delicious. There are many kinds of noodles that can be used in this recipe, for example  Chinese egg noodle, wide or small rice noodle sticks and even vermicelli.

Ingredients:

1. 15 shrimps
2.  1 cup of Thai basil
3.   8 hot Thai chili
4.  4 cloves garlic
5.   6 Kaffir lime leaves
6.  6  sprig of green peppercorns
7.   1 red pepper
8.   1/2 Lb. spaghetti
9. 2 carrots
10. 2 Tbsp oyster sauce
11. 1/2 Tbsp sugar
12. 2 Tbsp thin soy sauce or fish sauce
13. 2 Tbsp canola oil

Preparation:

1) Bring 8 cups of water to boil. Add 1/2 Lb. of pasta to boiling water. Cook 9 to 11 minutes or until desired tenderness.



 2) Wash red pepper and cut into 1 " length. Peel carrots and cut into small bite. Peel garlic. Pick up the hot Thai chili from stems. Wash kaffir lime leaves. This is green peppercorn is from the jar. You can find at Asian grocery.

 3) Pick up the Thai basil from stems and peel shrimps.

 4) Use a mortar and pestle to crush the chillies and garlic.

 5) When the pasta is cooked, rinse with cold water and drained. 

 6) Put canola oil into pan with medium heat.

 7) When oil is hot put crushed garlic and chillies into the pan.

 8) Add shrimps. And stir well for a minute.

 9) Add thin soy sauce, oyster sauce and sugar. Stir well until shrimps are cooked then add carrots.

 10) Add spaghetti into the pan. Stir very well until spaghetti  get into the sauce.

 11) Add green peppercorns, cut red pepper and kaffir lime leaves. Stir well until cooked through.

 12) Turn off the heat then add Thai basil onto pan.

 13) And stir well until all ingredients get together then remove from the heat.

14) Place Phad Kee Mao spaghetti to a plate and serve immediately. Enjoy :-)

Thai style crab rice porridge or Joke Poo

Thai style crab rice porridge or Joke Poo; โจ๊กปู in Thai. If we are talking about Thai breakfast, this is one of the recipe that Thai like to have it for breakfast. It's delicious, comfort food and very good for someone feeling ill.

This recipe for two bowls of Joke Poo

Ingredients for the rice:
1) 2 cups cooked jasmine rice.
2) 4 cups water
3) 1/8 tsp salt
4) 2 Tbsp thin soy sauce

Ingredients for the soup :
1) 2 " length ginger
2) 5 cups ginger juice
3) 1/4 tsp salt
4) 1/2 cup crab meat
5) 1/8 white pepper

Ingredients for the garnish :
1) ground white pepper powder
2) thin soy sauce
3) finely slivered fresh ginger
4) finely sliced green onions
5) fried garlic

Preparation:
1) Boil cooked jasmine rice with water. Keep stirring constantly until the rice is very soft and breaks apart. I used whisk to broke apart of the rice for save sometime or you can use food processor .
2) Prepare the broth using a fresh ginger. Peel ginger and cut into small pieces.
3) Bring into a a blender. Strained to get 1/2 cup ginger juice. 4) Pour 5 cups water to boil, add salt and ground white pepper. When the soup is boiling for two minutes. Bring the crab meat to scald then set a side. Turn off the heat and save the soup for next steps.
5) Scoop cooked rice into another pot with 1 and 1/2 cups of broth.
6) Bring it to a boil, stirring, and season with salt and thin soy sauce.
7) Here is the garnish. Place the joke into a bowl.
8) Top crab meat, fried garlic, sliced green onions, slivered fresh ginger and sprinkle with Thai pepper powder.
9) Serve hot, it's delicious and enjoy.

Thai noodle soup with fish balls

Thai noodle soup with fish balls or Kuay-Tiaw Tom Yum Luke Chin Pla; ก๋วยเตี๋ยวต้มยำลูกชิ้นปลา.

This recipe for 2 serving

Ingredients for Soup:
1) 6 cups of water
2) 3 roots of cilantro
3) 1/2 tsp salt
4) 1/4 tsp white pepper
5) 3 stalks Chinese celery
6) 1/2 of white radish

Ingredients for noodle:) 1/4 Lb. rice noodle
2) 15 fish balls
3) 2 tsp fried garlic http://amporn-oleski.blogspot.com/2010/05/thai-rice-soup-with-shrimp.html
4) 1 cup bean sprout

Ingredients for the sauce:1) 2 and 1/2 fish sauce
2) 1 tsp ground dried chili
3) 2 and 1/2 Tbsp lime juice
4) 4 Tbsp ground peanuts
5) 1/2 Tbsp sugar
6) 1 tsp Chili paste in soy bean oil ( Nam Prik Pao)

Ingredients for garnish:1) 1 green onion
2) 3 sprigs cilantro
3) 1/8 white pepper powder

Preparation:
1) This is all ingredients you will need. I have leftover fresh small rice noodle here, I don't need to soak with the water.
2) Here is ingredients to put in the soup. Wash dirt from cilantro and Chinese celery, Peel white radish then cut in a small bite.
3) Pour water into the pot. Put all ingredients into the soup pot. In another pot, pour water to boil on high heat to scald the fish balls, noodle and beans sprout.
4) Wash cilantro, Chinese celery and green onion, cut into small pieces and set aside for garnish. 5) Place the peanuts into a mortar and grind them with the pestle.
6) In a small mixing bowl, add all the Ingredients for the sauce then stir well until all ingredients get together.
7) When the water is boiling, scald bean sprout until get soft, then place into a bowl.
8) Bring fresh noodle to scald for 30 seconds or until get soft then place to a bowl.
9) Add fried garlic into the rice noodle, stir thoroughly.
10) Pour 1/2 of mixture on top of the soup bowl.
11) Then add scalded fish balls.
12) Pour the hot soup on the bowl.

13) Garnish with cut green onions, cilantro , Chinese celery and white pepper power and ready to be serve.
Enjoy!