We started with 4 – 5 large cloves of garlic and 4 shallots, minced them all and added both to a bowl to use in all the recipes
Lemongrass Tofu
- 2 blocks of fried tofu cubed
- 1 medium tomato chopped in large pieces
- ¼ onion in large slices
- 2 stalks of lemongrass, pound the lemongrass with a meat tenderizer then slice in to small pieces
- ¼ green pepper chopped in to small pieces
- 1 medium red chili (medium spicy) diced
- 1 small red chili (spicy) diced
- Mix chilies & lemongrass
- 2 spring onions cut in to 1-inch sections
- Put 3 tbsp oil in a non-stick pan
- Put a couple spoon fulls of garlic & onion in pan
- Add lemongrass and sauté for a minute
- Add fried tofu
- Add ½ cup of water
- Add 1 tsp of oyster sauce
- Add 1 tsp sugar
- Add 1 tsp mushroom stock
- Add pinch of pepper
- Add tomato, onion and green pepper
- Add only the white pieces of spring onion
- Add water as it evaporates
- Add remainder of green onion
- 1 tsp fish sauce
- Done when sauce thickens
- Remove from heat
- Sprinkle with pepper
- Sprinkle with dried onion
Vegetable Pancake
- 1 large carrot cut in thick wedges then cut into long thin pieces
- 4 large green beans cut diagonally
- ½ cube of fried tofu in thin slices like the carrot
- 4 green onion, use only the green part, chop in to small pieces
- 2 cups pancake flour
- 3 tsp other flour
- 1 tsp saffron
- Add 7 to 8 ¼ cups water to the mix
- Whisk until runny with no clumps
- Add green onion to the mix
- Heat pan & add oil
- Put a little of all the veggies (roughly 1/4) in the bottom of the pan and sauté for 30 seconds
- Pour 2 large spoons of pancake mix in pan to coat bottom of the pan
- Add bean sprouts to one half
- Pour more oil on top
- Cover and cook 1 minute
- Stir the pancake to separate it from the bottom of the pan adding some more oil
- When brown fold in half and cook for another minute
- Cut in to 4 pieces with scissors
- Dice a small red chili
- 1 tbsp sugar
- Hot water to mix with the sugar until dissolved
- Add 1 tsp fish sauce
- Add 1 tsp garlic
- Add chili and ¼ lime squeezed
- Put pancake in rice paper roll, add salads (mint, lettuce, ???), dip in sauce and enjoy
Com Ga
- Boil 2 breast of chicken in water
- Add ½ tsp saffron & ½ tsp of salt to the water
- When done, tear by hand in to thin strips
- Mix green papaya, coriander, mint, carrot, (small red pepper, medium red pepper chopped small), onion and toss
- Add 1 tsp of diced garlic and onion to the rice
- Add ½ tsp saffron to rice (steam rice and use while hot)
- Add 1 tsp of salt
- Add 1 tsp mushroom stock
- Add 2 spoons of vegetable oil (ladle == spoon)
- Then fry
- Add chicken to vegetables
- Add 1 tsp sugar
- Add ½ tsp salt
- Add ½ tsp pepper
- Add 1 tbsp fresh lime juice
- Put on top of fried rice
- Top with dried onions
- Serve with soy sauce mixed with garlic and chilies