Desserts Archives

Jack Fruit Ta Ko ( Ta Go Ka Noon )

Ta Ko, you've seen before in a different form here. Here is a variation in bi-tua leaves with jack fruit (shown at the back in the photograph). Ta Ko (also known as Tahko) is a traditional Thai dessert with a sweet layer and a salty topping.

Ingredients
200 gms Mung Bean Flour
800 ml Water
700 gms Sugar
100 gms Rice Flour
880 ml Coconut Milk
200 gms Jack Fruit (Chopped)
1/2 Teaspoon Salt
Bi Tua Leaves (For Wrapping)

Preparation
1. Use the bi tua leaves and make little trays (gar tong), you will find it easier if you use a stapler to do this.
2. Mix the mung bean flour with the water in a saucepan.
3. Heat slowly, stirring continuously until the flour has cooked, thickened and gone clear. This can take 25-30 minutes.
4. When it's nearly cooked, add 500 gms sugar and stir until it is dissolved.
5. Stir in the chopped jack fruit.
6. Fill the bi tua trays half full with the mixture and leave to cool.
7. In a saucepan, mix the rice flour, coconut milk, salt, and remaining sugar. Stir slowly over the heat until the flour has cooked through and the sugar dissolved and the mixture is thick.
8. Spoon this mixture onto the top of the earlier layer.
9. Leave to cool and serve.




Bananas in Coconut Syrup ( Grury Churm )



A very simple dessert, bananas in a sweet sauce with slightly salty coconut milk. It's typical in Thailand to add salt to desserts to balance the sweetness. For extra richness use coconut cream, the thicker top layer of coconut milk.

Ingredients
4-5 Bananas
50 gms Sugar
200 ml Water
50 ml Coconut Milk
1/3 Teaspoon Salt

Preparation
1. Boil the water with the sugar until dissolved.
2. Cut the bananas into halves and add to the boiling syrup and cook for 5 minutes. Set the sauce and bananas to one side.
3. In another saucepan, heat the coconut milk gently together with the salt. You just want to warm through the coconut milk and dissolve the salt, no more. Do not let it boil!
4. To serve place some of the banana in a dish with some of the sugar syrup and spoon over the warm coconut milk.




Kidney Bean Balls in Ginger Sauce ( Bour Loy Nam Khik )


Today is sweet ball day! There are many desserts we have made from balls in sauce. This one is sweet balls contain kidney beans and are served in a sweet ginger sauce. In the photograph top left you can one ball I cut open.

Ingredients
100 gms Sticky Rice Flour
50 gms Rice Flour
2 Tablespoons Cassava Starch
100 ml Rose Water
50 gms Kidney Beans (Canned or Boil hard for 10 Minutes!)
100 gms Sugar
2 Tablespoons Toasted Sasame Seeds
Water for Boiling
Cool Water

Ingredients for the Syrup
200 gms Sugar
200 ml Water

Ingredients for Ginger Water
20 gms Ginger Root
400 ml Water

Preparation
1. Blend the kidney beans into a purée with a food processor or blender. Put the purée into a saucepan and heat over a medium heat to thicken the beans and remove some of the water. Leave to cool.
2. Mix the rice flour, starch and sticky rice flour together. Add enough of the rose water to form a dough and knead it until it is smooth and well mixed.
3. When the kidney beans a cool, pinch off pieces of kidney bean paste and roll to form 1cm balls. Then take each ball and roll it in the sesame seeds. Do this until all of the bean is used up.
4. Put a pan of water on to boil.
5. Pinch off some of the flour dough, flatten it in your hand to form a disc about 4cms across. Put a bean ball inside and fold up the edges to envelop the bean ball. Repeat until all of your bean balls are wrapped up in the flour dough.
6. Drop the balls into the boiling water, they will float to the top when cooked, it only takes a minute or two. Once they are cooked, remove them and drop them into the cool water.
7. Make a sugar syrup by placing the sugar and water in a pan and heating until the sugar is dissolved, then leave to cool.
8. To make the ginger sauce, boil water, add the chopped ginger and boil until the ginger smell is released, then remove the ginger from the water.
9. To serve, put some of the balls in a bowl, add enough syrup to sweeten it to your personal taste, then spoon enough of the warm ginger sauce over the top to drown the balls.

From Appon's Thai Food.

Stir Frys Archive II

Green Pepper & Liver Stir Fry ( Tub Pad Prik Yuek )

If you think there have been a lot of liver recipes lately, you're right! I was given lots of fresh pork liver, unlike meat liver is best eaten fresh. So all my recipes will feature liver until it's used up!

Ingredients for 2 People
40 gms Green Pepper
50 gms Pork Liver
4 Garlic Cloves
30 gms Tomato
2 Tablespoons Light Soy Sauce
2 Tablespoons Oyster Sauce
1/4 Teaspoon White Pepper
1/2 Teaspoon Sugar
2 Tablespoons Water
2 Tablespoons Oil

Preparation
1. Chop the tomatoes into quarters. Chop the green pepper into pieces (approx 3cms).
2. Chop the garlic and fry to release the smell.
3. Slice the pork liver and add to the pan frying, fry for 1 minute.
4. Add the light soy sauce, oyster sauce, sugar, water, and white pepper. For for a few seconds.
5. Add the chopped green pepper and chopped tomatoes and fry for 2 minutes.

Serve With
Thai Fragrant Rice



Pumpkin Stir-fry (Pad Fuk Tong )

Halloween is tomorrow and you may end up with a lot of pumpkin flesh to use up. We don't celebrate Halloween much in Thailand, its a western thing that's only done in discotechs and restaurants. However we do eat this pumpkin stir fry all year round. This stir-fry is a great alternative to meat dishes and a great way to use up the pumpkin you hollow out of the lantern!

Ingredients
50 gms Pumpkin
2 Eggs
30 gms Chopped Celery
20 gms Chopped Spring Onion
10 gms Chopped Coriander Leaves
10 gms Sliced Onions
20 ml Water
1/2 Teaspoon Sugar
3 Garlic Cloves
2 Tablespoons Light Soy Sauce
2 Tablespoons Oyster Sauce
1 Tablespoon Fish Sauce
1/4 Teaspoon White Pepper
3 Tablespoons Oil

Preparation
1. Peel and slice the pumpkin.
2. Chop the garlic, add to a frying pan together with the oil and fry for a few seconds to release the aroma of garlic.
3. Add the eggs in and stir-fry the eggs until half cooked.
4. Add the pumpkin, spring onion, celery, onions, water, fish sauce, oyster sauce, sugar, light soy sauce and white pepper (basically, everything but the coriander leaves).
5. Stir fry for 1 minute.
6. Garnish with coriander leaves.

Serve With
Thai Fragrant Rice



Tofu & Soya Stir fry ( Tua Ho Pad Tur Kngok )

A delicious stir-fry made from fried tofu, together with soya beansprouts and carrots. This is the best way to eat tofu, frying it gives it more texture and flavour.

Ingredients
50 gms Tofu
40 gms Soya Beansprouts
30 gms Carrots
20 gms Onions
3 Tablespoons Soy Sauce
1/2 Teaspoon Sugar
1/4 Teaspoon White Pepper
2 Tablespoons Oil

Preparation
1. Chop the tofu into small squares, slice the carrots and onion.
2. Clean the soya beansprouts, and remove the roots.
3. Put oil into the frying pan over a medium heat.
4. When the oil is hot, fry the sliced onions for a few seconds, then add all the other ingredients and stir fry quickly for 30 seconds.

Serve With
Fragrant Rice



Ton Ho Chai Stir Fry ( Pad Puck Jean )

A stir fry made from Ton Ho Chai, the Chinese leaf vegetable. This is one of the beautiful simple side dishes that bulk up a meal with healthy green vegetables.

Ingredients
100 gms Ton Ho Chai
2 Garlic Cloves
2 Tablespoons Oil
2 Tablespoons Light Soy Sauce
2 Tablespoons Oyster Sauce
1 Teaspoon Sugar

Preparation
1. Clean the Ton Ho Chai and cut off the ends.
2. Heat oil in a frying pan.
3. Chop the garlic, fry for 20 seconds, add light soy sauce, oyster sauce, sugar and ton ho chai.
4. Fry for 30 seconds, then serve.

Serve With
Fragrant Rice
or Rice Soup

From Appon's Thai Food

Stir Frys Archive I

Sweet Sour Stir Fried Vegetables ( Pad Piew Wan)


This is a side vegetable dish, suitable for accompanying a rice or meat dish. Sweet and sour frying is common all through Asia, for this dish the sour comes from vinegar and the sweet from the sweet chilli sauce. Naturally since this is Thai cuisine it has a little chilli in it too, but not much, this is not a spicy dish.

Ingredients for 2 People
100 gms Carrot
1 Tomato
3 Mangetout, Long Green Bean or Wing Bean
75 gms Courgette
50 gms Onion
3 Garlic Cloves
1/2 Teaspoon White Pepper
1/2 Teaspoon Sugar
2 Tablespoons Light Soy Sauce
2 Tablespoons Fish Sauce (use Soy Sauce if Vegetarian Dish)
1 Tablespoon Oyster Sauce
2 Tablespoons Sweet Chilli Sauce
2 Tablespoons Oil
1 Tablespoon Vinegar

Preparation
1. Put oil into frying and pre-heat.
2. Chop the garlic add to the pan, fry it till the garlic smell comes out.
3. Chop the carrot, onion, mangetout, courgette, into small bite-sized pieces and add to the pan.
4. Add light soya sauce, fish sauce, sugar, white pepper, sweet chilli, oyster sauce and vinegar to the vegetables.
5. Stir fry it for 1 minutes then serve.

Serve With
Hot Fragrant Rice




Thai Mushroom Stir-Fry ( Ton Hoom Pad Hed )

I'll let the photograph speak for itself.

Ingredients for 2 People
100 gms Mushrooms (Oyster, Whitecap etc.)
100 gms Spring Onion
1 Tablespoon Light Soy Sauce
1 Tablespoon Oyster Sauce
1 Teaspoon Sugar
2 Tablespoon Oil
2 Garlic Cloves
White Pepper

Preparation
1. Clean the mushrooms and chop them in half.
2. Chop the spring onion into 4 cm lengths.
3. Put oil in frying pan and heat.
4. Chop the garlic and fry for a few seconds to release the fragrance.
5. Add the mushrooms, spring onions, light soy sauce, oyster sauce, and sugar.
6. Fry for 1 minute.
7. When you serve add a pinch of pepper to season.

Serve With
Hot Fragrant Rice
Chicken or Vegetable Bouillon




Stir Fry Chicken Liver ( Pad Kueng Niey Gay )

Liver is a strange thing, on the one hand people think it's something you throw away when preparing a chicken, on the other, they pay a high price for paté made from liver! This dish is a very tasty way to eat chicken livers.

Ingredients for 3 People
50 gms Chicken Liver
100 gms Fresh Spinach Leaves
4 Garlic Cloves
1 Teaspoon White Pepper
3 Tablespoons Light Soy Sauce
1 Teaspoon Salt
1/2 Teaspoon Sugar
2 Tablespoons Oyster Sauce
3 Tablespoons Oil
300 ml Water

Preparation
1. Boil water and salt in a pan then add the liver and cook for 3 minutes. Remove it and dry it.
2. Oil the frying pan, pound the garlic in a Thai mortar and put into the pan.
3. Add the liver and white pepper to the pan and fry for 5 minutes over a medium heat.
4. Clean the spinach, chop it into 4 cm lengths, then add to the pan with the liver.
5. Add the light soy sauce, oyster sauce and sugar and fry it for a few seconds just to mix.

Serve With
Hot Rice




Spicy Liver and Green Bean Stir Fry ( Pad Pate Tub Mu )

This stir fry includes big red chillies and is very spicy. You may prefer to make the non spicy stir fry (the green pepper and liver stir fry) if you don't like spicy food. Of the two this is the one I prefer!

Ingredients for 2 People
40 gms Pork Liver
50 gms Chopped Green Beans
5 Chillies
4 Garlic Cloves
1/4 Teaspoon Black Pepper
1 Teaspoon Salt
2 Tablespoons Oyster Sauce
2 Tablespoons Light Soy Sauce
1 Tablespoon Fish Sauce
200 ml Water
2 Tablespoons Oil

Preparation
1. Boil the water with the salt and black pepper.
2. Slice the pork liver into thin slices and add to the boiling water to cook for 1 minute.
3. Chop the garlic and chillies, fry in the oil for a few minutes to release the smell.
4. Add the pork liver to the frying pan, add the light soy sauce, fish sauce, oyster sauce, chopped green beans and fry for 1 minute.

Serve With
Hot Fragrant Thai Rice



Stir Fried Chicken Cashew Nuts (Guy Pad Med Mamuang Hinmapan)

A very popular dish, this is a quick easy to make stir fry of chicken and vegetables seasoned with cashew nuts. This is ideal as a side dish for Thai Fragrant Rice. The name break down as 'Guy' = chicken, 'pad' = fried, 'Med' = seed and 'Med Mamuang Hinmapan' means cashew nut. In Thai its just as long a name! ไก่ ผัด เม็ดมะม่วง หิมมะพานต์

Ingredient for 2 People
100 gms Chicken Breast
30 gms Cashew Nuts
1/2 Medium Onion
1 Spring Onion
1/2 a Red Pepper
50 gms Bamboo Shoot
1 Tablespoon Oyster Sauce
1 Tablespoon Fish Sauce
1 Tablespoon Light Soy Sauce
1/2 Teaspoon White Pepper
3 Garlic Clove
2 Tablespoons Oil

Preparation
1. Chop the garlic into small pieces and put in a frying pan and fry it for a few seconds to release the garlic fragrance.
2. Chop the chicken breast into strips and add to the frying pan - stir until chicken is cooked.
3. Chop the onion, spring onion, red pepper and bamboo, into strips add in the pan.
4. Add all the remaining ingredients.
5. Cook for 2 minutes.

Serve with
Hot Fragrant Rice


From Appon;s Thai Food