thai fish cake

this is a belated entry.  i made these last week, not for the first time though.  i found few recipes online or in cookbooks but i prefer Rick Stein's recipe & method i saw on telly and had been using it since.

Ingredients

450g/1lb fish fillet skinned and cut into chunks (i normally use 2 medium sized haddock or frozen dory or  any white fish)

1 tbsp Thai fish sauce

1 tbsp red curry paste ( i used tomyam cube)

1 kaffir lime leaf, shredded very finely

1 tbsp chopped fresh coriander (leaves and stalks)

1 egg

1 tsp palm sugar or muscovado sugar

½ tsp salt

40g/1½oz French beans, sliced thinly into rounds (about 10 beans will do)

2 tbsp cornflour

groundnut or sunflower oil (or vege oil) for shallow frying

Put all ingredients (except oil) in a food processor  and process until smooth, then stir in the sliced green beans. divide into 16-20 pieces (depending on the size you want), roll each into ball and then flatten.

Heat the oil in a large frying pan and fry the fish cakes in batches for 1 minute on each side, until golden brown. Lift out and drain on kitchen paper, then serve with sweet chilli sauce

kerabu suhun thai

this is more like salad and very refreshing. no cooking is required

ingredients

suhun (or su'un) or very thin vermicelli
1 cup water
1/2 cup dry roasted nuts - tumbuk kasar (i substituted with dry roasted cashew nuts)
300g prawns (i used cooked frozen king prawns)
1 onion - slice thinly
2 spring onions - finely chopped
4 tbsp lime juice (i used juice from 1 lemon)
4 tbsp fish sauce
4 garlic - finely chopped
6 chilli padi -finely chopped ( i used 1 red chilli)
2 tbsp sugar
i added diced tomatoes & finely chopped coriander leaves

rendam su'un 10 minit, potong & toskan
celur udang 1 minit (i put the cooked prawns in hot water), angkat & toskan
masukkan suhun kedalam air panas, rendam for 2-3 minutes until transparent, angkat & toskan
satukan semua bahan2 lain & gaul. taburkan kacang to serve.

Daging Goreng Kaprau

when i first saw the title of the dish on tiffinbiru.com, its kind of amusing and i guessed this must be something more or less like "patprik". true enough, reading down the page  the ingredients are just what one would put in thai dishes.

Ingredients

Daging batang pinang (i just used whatever beef there is in the freezer)

2 tbsp tomyam paste (i used 2 tomyam cubes)

6-7 cili padi, tumbuk kasar ( i only used 3 chillies)

2 bawang besar, belah 8 ( i used 1 bawang)

1 tbsp kicap manis

1 tbsp sweet chilli sauce

1/4 capsicum, diced

i added sweet peas and baby corn

thai basil (i subsituted with coriander leaves)

gaul daging dengan tomyam paste/cube & marinate for 1/2 hour.

panaskan minyak, tumis 1/2 bawang besar sampai layu, masukkan cili api & tumis garing

masukkan daging & goreng sampai daging mengecut, roughly 15 minutes.

tambah sweet chilli sauce, kicap, capsicum, sweet pea, baby corn and remaining bawang and lastly coriander leaves.