Sunday, December 28, 2014

Prahok Kroeung Kh'tih | Creamy Prahok Dip with Kroeung




+ Ingredients 
   - 50g prahok (Prahok trei sach)
   - 100g pork
   - 1 smoked fish
   - 1\4 cup coconut cream
   - 1\2 cup coconut milk
   - 1 tbsp peanut, roasted and pounded
   - 1 tbsp sugar
   - 1 tsp salt
   - 2-3 krasaing

+ Kroeung
   - 1  1\2 tbsp lemon grass stalk, slice thinly
   - 1 tsp parsley roots
   - 1 tsp galangal, cut small
   - 1 tsp turmeric, cut into small pieces
   -  4 garlic cloves, 3 shallot, 1\4 zest of kaffir lime
   - 3 dried red chilies, soaked, drained and chopped
 + Vegetable : cucumber, crunchy-eggplant, long bean, cabbage

+ Method
    Chop pork with prahok together until fine. Remove the flesh of smoked fish and discard bone and then pound until fine. Pound lemon grass stalk and parsley roots first in a clay mortar when fine add galangal, turmric, garlic , shallot and zest of kaffri lime. Continue pounding then add red chili paste, pound lightly. Simmer coconut cream in pot over a medium heat until oil top, while add the kreoung, the pork mixture, pounded smoked fish and peanut, stri well. Follow coconut milk after the season with salt and sugar. Simmer until thick is needed. Lastly, add krasaing seeds and remove from the heat and garnish with basil.
    This dish is served with fresh vegetable combo above.

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