Spicy Frizzy Pork Cups ( Nam Prick Mu Yung Kratong )

These pastry cups are made using frizzy pork hair, the shredded dried pork meat fibre that looks like hair when you take it out of the packet. You will also need pastry cups, known as Kratongs for this, that recipe is here. This can also be eaten simply as a side dish with rice instead of in a pastry cup.

Ingredients
50 gms Frizzy Pork Hair
50 gms Chopped Onion
5 Garlic Cloves
20 gms Chopped Chillies
50 ml Oil
1 Teaspoon Salt
1/2 Teaspoon Sugar
5 Pastry Cups

Preparation
1. Chop the garlic finely, add to a frying pan together with the chopped onion and oil. Fry for a few moments to soften them.
2. Add the chopped chillies, fry over a medium heat for 30 seconds.
3. Drain the excess oil off.
4. Place all the ingredients into a blender and blend to form a paste.
5. Spoon into the pastry cup.

Serve With
Thai Fragrant Rice
Lettuce
Cucumber
Cabbage
Long Green Beans

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[Source: Appon's Thai Food Recipes]

Chicken & Seaweed Parcels ( Miang Sa Rai Gay Kome )

Christmas is coming, although we don't celebrate it as much as we celebrate the Thai new year. Everyone in the west is wrapping parcels and in the Appon household we're wrapping chicken and seaweed parcels instead.
These parcels are wrapped in rice paper with a filling of chicken, onion and seaweed. You can see one cut open in the front of the photograph. Either serve them with the sauce poured over the top, or use the sauce as a dip for the parcels.

Ingredients
200 gms Chicken Breast
600 ml Water
1 Tablespoon Salt
1 Teaspoons White Pepper
4 Medium Onions
100 ml Oil
Seawead Sheets
Rice Paper

Ingredients for Sauce
2 Tablespoons Chopped or Crushed Peanuts
2 Tablespoons Fish Sauce
1 Teaspoon Salt
4 Tablespoons Palm Sugar
100 ml Water
1 Tablespoons Dried Flaked Chillies
1 Tablespoon Chopped Coriander Leaves
1 Tablespoon Lemon Juice

Preparation
1. First the sauce: Put 100ml of water into a small saucepan, add the palm sugar and bring to the boil.
2. Add fish sauce, salt, flaked chillies and boil for 1 minute.
3. Remove from the heat and add the chopped peanuts, coriander and lemon juice and leave the sauce to cool.
4. Next we will cook the chicken, put a saucepan of water on to boil. Add the salt and pepper.
5. Add the chicken breast and boil for 10 minutes, until it is cooked. Dice the chicken finely.
6. Put oil in a frying pan, slice the onions finely and fry them until golden brown.
7. Cut the seaweed sheets into thin short strips.
8. Soak the rice paper in warm water until it is soft. This takes only a few minutes. When you add the rice paper into the water, drop it in sheet by sheet, to keep the sheets separated. Don't just throw the whole packet in, in one go!
9. Take a sheet of the softened rice paper, put a little chicken, a little onion and a little seaweed and place them in the centre of the rice paper. Fold over the edges to wrap up the filling.
10. Serve the parcels with green salad vegetables, and the sauce.

Serve With
Mint Leaves
Green Lettuce
Coriander Leaves

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[Source: Appon's Thai Food Recipes]

Isaan Rice Wine ( Sato )

Sato is a home made rice wine, made from fermenting sticky rice with water and yeast. You will need the dried yeast culture to make this. It's much more like a beer than a wine, and it need not be alcoholic, you can make a sweet Sato by fermenting for only a short period of time.
The golden rule is cleanliness! Any mould contamination will ruin the Sato, so you much clean everything in hot water and clean your hands carefully. The water should also be boiled and then cooled to make it sterile. If your water is chlorinated it can affect the yeast, so leave the water to stand for the chlorine to escape before using it.
When in Thailand, try the commercially made Sato, or one of the commercial Thai Beers.

Ingredients
100 gms. Sticky Rice
1 Call of Dried Yeast
Cold Boiled Water
1-2 ltr Jar

Preparation
1. Soak the sticky rice overnight.
2. Steam the rice until cooked (abount 15 minutes), rinse it with cool water until the rice is cool and no longer sticky.
3. Put the sticky rice in to clean jar add yeast in. Stir until mixed, fill the jar with the water to the top and stir.
4. Keep in a dark place at room temperature. After 1 week taste the sato and it should be sweet, at this point you can filter it through muslin, and drink it. You can also leave it longer, the longer you leave it, the less sweet and more alcoholic it gets.



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[Source: Appon's Thai Food Recipes]