Hor Mok Pla (Steamed curried fish)

Ingredients:

- ½ kg fish, sliced
- 2 tablespoons red curry paste
- 1 tablespoon fish sauce
- 1 ½ cups thick coconut cream
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1 cup chopped cabbage leaves
- 1 tablespoon spring onions, chopped
- 1 – 2 red chili, seeded, finely sliced

How to cook:

1. In a bowl, mix the sliced fish with red curry paste, coconut cream and fish sauce. Then add the beaten egg and stir with wooden spoon until the mixture thickens.

2. Line a heat resistant pudding basin with the chopped cabbage leaves.

3. Spoon the curried fish mixture on top. Sprinkle with the chopped spring onions and red chili slices.

4. Cover and steam for 30-35 minutes or until well-cooked.

*** You can serve this Hor Mok Pla when hot or cold.

Ingredients of Red curry paste:

- 8-10 dried chilies, seeded and soaked
- 2 teaspoons cumin seeds
- 1 teaspoon coriander seeds
- ½ teaspoon kaffir-lime rind
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons lemon grass, chopped
- 1 tablespoon galangal root, chopped
- 1 ½ tablespoon shallots, chopped
- 1 tablespoon garlic, chopped
- 1 tablespoon shrimp paste

Toast the coriander seeds and cummin seeds in a pan over a low heat before pound or grind them in an electric grinder and set aside. After that grind the chillies and salt together and add the rest of the ingredients. Blend in the ground coriander seeds and cummin seeds and grind to a smooth paste.

Pla Chian Nam Daeng (Fried fish in red sauce)

Ingredients:

- 1 fish
- ½ -1 tablespoon plain flour
- 1 tablespoon ginger, grated
- 3 tablespoons chilies, chopped
- 5 cloves garlic, minced
- 1/3 teaspoon chili sauce
- 1 1/2 tablespoons vinegar
- 3 tablespoons water
- 1 1/2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- Salt, pepper and sugar to taste

How to cook :

1. Rub salt and pepper onto the fish and roll the fish in the flour.

2. Heat the oil in a frying pan and fry the fish until it is well-cooked. Remove from the oil and drain on paper towel.

3. Fry the minced garlic, grated ginger root and chopped chilies over a low heat. Then pour in the water and vinegar.

4. Season well with salt, pepper and sugar.

5. Mix the remaining flour with the little water and blend it into the sauce and stirring constantly before removing from the heat.

6. Put the fried fish on a serving dish and make sure to pour the sauce onto the fish only before serving.

Pla Rad Prik (Fried Fish topped with Chili Sauce)

Pla Rad Prik or Fried Fish topped with Chili Sauce is one of main course served along with rice. This can be made with any fish you like, and we recommended Grouper (Pla Klao), Black Pompret (Pla Jalamet).


Ingredients:

· 1 Fish (weight 700 – 800 grams)
· ½ cup tomato, chopped
· ¼ cup cucumber, chopped
· 2 tablespoons chili sauce
· 1 tablespoon fish sauce
· ¾ tablespoon sugar
· 1 teaspoon salt
· 2 tablespoons cornflour
· 1/3 cup water
· Oil for frying
· Sliced tomato and cucumber for decorating the dish

How to cook :

1. Clean fish and cut two or three slashes in the sides

2. Sprinkle salt on both sides of fish and wait about 10 minutes

3. Fry the fish in a pan until golden and crispy with medium low heat, then remove and drain

4. In another saucepan, add little oil and put tomato and cucumber, then add chili sauce, fish sauce sugar and water. Test the sauce as you like and the original test of this sauce should be spicy, sweet and a bit salty.

5. In a small-sized bowl, stir cornflour and water together until the cornflour dissolved. Then put into the saucepan and stir until the sauce becomes a little bit sticky.

6. Put crispy fish into the sauce and stir a bit, then put on a serving plate decorated with sliced tomato and cucumber, and serve along with rice.

Yam Pla Duk Fu (Crispy Catfish with Green Mango Salad)

Ingredients :

· 1 Catfish (weight 400 – 500 grams)
· 3 tablespoons fish sauce
· 4 tablespoons lime juice
· ¾ tablespoon sugar
· ½ cup shallot, thinly sliced
· 3-4 chili, chopped
· 1 green mango, sliced
· ¼ cup peanuts, roasted
· Oil for frying

How to cook :

1 Roast the fish in an oven until cooked and remove the fish from oven and wait until it cool. Then using 2 forks break up the fish into very small pieces.

2. Fry the small pieces fish until golden with medium low heat, then remove and drain before put on a serving plate.

3. In a small-sized bowl, add all other ingredients (fish sauce, lime juice, thinly sliced shallot, chopped chili and sliced mango) to mix together and test the sauce as you like. The original test should be sour, spicy, salty, and a bit sweet.

4. Sprinkle roasted peanuts on top of crispy catfish and sever with sauce.

Thod Man Pla (Curried Fish Cakes)

Ingredients:

- ½ kg. boneless fish steak, minced
- ¼ kg. winged beans or French beans, finely chopped
- 1 egg, beaten
- ¼ cup chopped shallots
- ¼ cup chopped garlic
- ¼ cup chopped lemon grass
- ½ tablespoon chopped coriander root
- ½ tablespoon chopped galanga
- 1 tablespoon chopped krachai root
- 1/2 teaspoon peppercorns
- ½ teaspoon grated kaffir-lime rind
- 1 tablespoon shrimp paste
- 5-10 dried chillies, seeded, soaked, and shredded
- ½ tablespoon salt
- 250 ml. vegetable oil

How to cook:

1. Pound or grind together the shallots, garlic, lemon grass, coriander root, galanga, Krachai root, peppercorns, grated kaffir-lime rind, shredded dried chillies, salt and shrimp paste to a fine paste.

2. Put the minced fish in an electric blender and blend in the curry mixture.

3. Add the beaten egg. Pour the curried fish mixture into a large bowl. Mix in the chopped beans. Make flat, round fish cakes.

4. Use about 1 spoonful of the fish mixture at a time. Heat the oil in a flying pan and deep-fly the fish cakes until golden brown. Than, serve with cucumber dressing

Cucumber dressing:

1 tablespoon vinegar
2 tablespoon sugar
¼ teaspoon salt
2 tablespoon boiling water
1 cup sliced cucumber
1 tablespoon chopped onion
1 teaspoon red chilli, finely shredded
1 tablespoon chopped roasted peanuts

Mix the vinegar, sugar and salt with the boiling water in a bowl, and stir until the sugar dissolved. Then, pour the cucumber slices, chopped onion and chopped roasted peanuts in a serving dish. Pour on the dressing and sprinkle with the shredded red chilli

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FYI, In Thai word "Pla" means "Fish"