Tom Kai - Thai Coconut Soup

Kata Thai Cooking - Kata Beach, Phuket

Kata Thai Cooking School

Tom Kai - Thai Coconut Soup

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Servers: 3 (Entrée sized)


Ingredients:

• 1 can 330ml - Coconut Milk
• 1 or 2 sticks - Lemon Grass
• 3 - Kaffir Lime Leaves
• 6 to 8 thin slices - Galangal
• 2 to 4 - Thai Chillies (depends on strength)
• 1/3 Cup - Sliced Mushrooms
• 4 - Grape Tomatoes halved- (a normal tomato cut into wedges can be used)
• 3 - Shallots
• 1/2 TSP - Salt
• 2 or 3 - Thai Fish Sauce
• 1/2 Cup - Water
• 100g - Either Tofu, Chicken, Pork, Prawn, Squid
• Garnish 1 per serving Segment - Lime (or Lemon)
• Garnish 1 per serving Sprig - Coriander

Steps:
Preparation:-

Bash 1 or 2 sticks of Lemon Grass.
Cut Galangal into 6 or 8 slices and slice the Shallots
Slice mushrooms to make about 1/3 cup.
Cut grape tomatoes into half or if a normal tomatoe cut into wedges.

Dice the Thai chillies.

Boil 1/2 cup of water and 1 can 330ml of coconut milk.
Add based Lemon Grass, cut shallots, sliced Galangal, diced Thai Chillies and sliced mushrooms.
Boil for a few minutes and add the 2 or 3 tablespoons of Thai Fish Sauce, salt and put in the 100g "meat" (Either Tofu, Chicken, Pork, Prawn, Squid) with the tomatoes.
Once "Meat" is cooked put the soup in a serving bowl.

Serve with a wedge of Lime and a sprig of Coriander

Pad Thai - Rice Noodles

Kata Thai Cooking - Kata Beach, Phuket

Kata Thai Cooking School

Pad Thai - Flat Noodles Thai Style

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Servers: 1


Ingredients:

• 1 tbsp - Brown Sugar

• 1 tbsp - White Sugar

• 0.5 tbsp - Tamarind (slightly less amount of Tamarind concentrate if used)

• 1.5 tbsp - Thai Fish Sauce

• 2 tbsp - White Vinegar

• 50g - Rice Noodles (can be fresh or dried - if dried soak for 60 mins before use)

• 80g - Either Chicken, Pork, Beef, Seafood

• 0.25 cup - Spring Onion

• 0.25 cup - Garlic Chives

• 0.25 cup - Sliced Carrot

• 0.25 cup - Bean Sprouts

• 1 - Egg

• 0.5 tbsp - Shallot

• 1 tbsp - Firm Tofu (diced)

• 0.5 tbsp - Pickled Mixed Vegetables

• 1.5 tbsp - Vegetable Oil

• 1 TSP - Paprika

• 0.5 tbsp - Crushed Peanuts

• 1 tbsp - Lime juice

Preparation
Sauce Mix:-
Cooking
Cooking
Eating:
Eating:



Steps:

If dried noodles - soak for 60 minutes in water.
Cut chicken/pork/beef/seafood into small slices.

1 tbsp - Brown Sugar
1 tbsp - White Sugar
0.5 tbsp - Tamarind (slightly less amount of Tamarind concentrate if used)
1.5 tbsp - Thai Fish Sauce

Heat up the oil on a medium heat and add shallots & tofu into the pan when oil is hot.
After 1 minute add the meat and cook (with the meat in thin slices this should not take long).
When meat is ready, add the egg and scramble just a little then do the pancake movement and spread the egg around your pan.
After 1 minute add the noodles and start stirring it well together.
After 30 seconds add the Tamarind sauce mix. Stir for a total of 2 minutes.
Add the paprika powder for more colour.
The sauce must be soaked into the noodles.
The Pad Thai should start to become dry in the pan, then add the chives and sprouts then cook it for another 30 seconds.
Turn off the heat and serve on a plate.

Add some lime pieces and crushed peanuts on top when serving to each person.

Tom Xao Xa Ot - Prawn Lemon-grass and Chilli

Coconut Tour - Hoi An

Vietnamese Cooking School

Tom Xao Xa Ot - Prawn Lemon-grass and Chilli

Serves: 1


Ingredients:

• 200g - Raw Prawns - no shell or vein

• 1 stick - Lemongrass

• 1 - Chilli

• 3 TSP - Chicken Stock Powder

• 4 tbsp - Water

• 1TSP - Sugar

• 1 tbsp - Vegetable/Peanut Oil

Preparation
Cooking
Eating:

Steps:

Cut lemongrass in half.  One half chop fine the other half chop into 1cm lengths.
Finely chop the chilli and mix with a good pinch of the finely chop lemongrass.

Heat 1 tbsp of oil in pan and add lemongrass (both fine and 1cm parts), 200g prawns, and 3 TSP of chicken powder.
Quick stir and then add in 4 tbsp water.
Remove pan from the heat and add 1 TSP sugar - heat again with mix of Chilli and lemongrass.
Serve.

None just eat :-)

Banh Xeo - Country Pancake

Coconut Tour - Hoi An

Vietnamese Cooking School

Banh Xeo - Country Pancake

Serves: 3


Ingredients

• 100g - Rice Flour

• 75ml - Water

• 8 - Straw Mushroom Sliced / Diced

• Pinch - Turmeric

• 1 - Egg Yolk

• 1 - Spring Onion

• 2 tsp - Chicken Stock Powder

• 100g - Small Sliced Pork (if cooked cut out cooking step)

• 100g - Prawns (if cooked cut out cooking step)

• 100g - Bean Sprouts

• 1tbsp - Vegetable Oil

• Vietnamese Rice Paper

• Cucumber

• Mustard leaves.

• Lettuce

• Mint

• Holy Basil

• Vietnamese Coriander

• Spring Onion

• 4 tbsp - Lemon Juice

• 2 tbsp - Sugar (4tbsp with Vietnamese Sugar)

• 1 tbsp - Thai Fish Sauce (4 tbsp with Vietnamese Fish Sauce)

• 1 tbsp - Garlic

• 1 tbsp - Chili

Steps:-
Batter
Making the pancakes
Herb Bundle
Create a pancake
Dipping Sauce - Sweet and Sour
Eating:-



Add water to flour and mix - leave to soak for an hour.
Consistency should be like double cream (we found we needed to add more water with UK rice flour).
After an hour - pour surface excess water away.

Mix into batter the yolk, mushrooms and spring onions.
Put the tbsp of Vegetable oil into a small frying pan (10-15cm) and cook.
Add ladel of mixture and roll frying pan to cover the bottom with a thin layer.
On one half cover with bean sprouts.
Cover and cook for a minute or two.
Fold over the half without the bean-sprouts on.
Put on a plate and repeat process until all batter/prawns/pork is used.

Slice cucumber in long thin strips.
Mustard leaves.
Lettuce
Mint
Holy Basil
Vietnamese Coriander
Spring Onion

Cut pancakes in half.
Check rice paper - some need dipping on hot water first.
Dip whole of rice paper in hot water.
Put half a pancake on one end of the rice paper
Put a good hand bundle of mix herbs ontop of the pancake.
Now roll the pancake tucking herbs/pancake underneath.
You should end up with a cigar shape.
Repeat the above for all pancakes.

4 tbsp - Lemon Juice
2 tbsp - Sugar (4tbsp with Vietnamese Sugar)
1 tbsp - Thai Fish Sauce (4 tbsp with Vietnamese Fish Sauce)
1 tbsp - Garlic
1 tbsp - Chili
Mix all together, use water and/or more lemon juice to weaken

Dip cigar roll into dipping sauce and eat.
Repeat until all eaten :-)