What is Yai Cooking

Ingredients:

• chicken, slice 500 – 600 gm
• fresh chili, slice 80 – 100 gm. ( big chili )
• fresh green peppercorns 100 – 130 gm. ( cut about 1 cm. ) ( dried black peppercorns OK )
• garlic, pound 1 1/2 tablespoons
• chili, pound 1  tablespoons
• red curry paste 50 – 80 gm. ( prik kang )
• cooking oil 5 -6  tablespoons
• oyster sauce 2  tablespoons
• Maggy cooking sauce 1  tablespoons
• soy sauce 1  tablespoons.
• msg 1 tea spoon
• rot dee 2 tablespoon. ( thai bullion )
• fish sauce 1 tablespoon
• sugar 1/2 – 1  tablespoons

* if you like grean bean ( cowpea or long bean ) you can add some of thwem .. maybe 100 – 150 gm.

How to cook.

* heat the oil, then pound garlic, pound chili,  red curry paste and fry them together.
* then chicken and then msg, oyster sauce, maggy cooking sauce, soy sauce,  flavor powder, fish sauce, sugar
* after that , put  ( and green bean if you like ) fresh pepper, fresh chili then cook them together for a while.
then turn the heat off.

shouldn’t cook them too long after put everything in, because green bean, fresh pepper and fresh chili will be too cooked. ( too soft )

Ingredients

1. chicken ( slice ) 300 grams.
2. green curry 1 spoon. ( if you like spicy you can add little bit more )
3. egg plant 1/2 bow. ( 1 egg plant cut for 4 pieces )
4. goat pepper 1/2 bow. ( slice )
5. coconut milk 200 grams.
6. water 200 grams. ( or 1 small bowl )
7. sweet basil 1/2 – 1 bow.
8. msg 1/2 teaspoon. ( if you like )
9. sugar 1 spoon.
10. fish sauce 1 spoon.
11.

Hot to cook.

1. Heat coconut milk then put green curry and stir ( mix ) them together.
2. Put chicken ( untill it cook ), then put water and wait till boil,
3. Then put egg plan and wait for a while , then put goal pepper in.
4. Flaver by msg, sugar, fish sauce, then put sweet basil and trun power off immediately
or turn the power off then put sweet basil in after. ( because sweet basil is easy to cook and doesn’t need to cook too much )

* Good to serve with rice or rice noodle for 2 – 3 people. *

A coconut milk soap with chicken.  A slightly spicy dish to enjoy with rice.

Ingredients

• Chicken breast  300 grams (slice into small pieces)
• Coconut milk  150 ml.
• water  150 ml.
• Galangal  slice   4 – 5 pieces
• Lemon Grass  2 stalks (pound to soften, then slice into short pieces)
• Kaffir lime leaves  7 leaves (tear into little pieces)
• Mushroom  100 grams  (tear 2 or 3 pieces each)
• Chili  pound  3 – 4 chilies
• Fish sauce   2 – 4 tablespoons
• Lemonade    2 tablespoons
• Sugar  1.5 – 2 tablespoons

How to cook

1. Wash the chicken breast, take the skin off, then slice into small pieces.

2. Boil coconut milk want water together till you see bubble, then turn down the temperature, after that put galangal, kaffir lime, lemongrass in and wait until you can smell the ingredients

3. Put chicken in, then flavour by sugar, fish sauce and lemonade.  Wait until chicken cooked, then put mushroom in and wait for couple minites ( or until mushroom cooked ) after that put chilies in, then turn off the temperature.

4. Serve with rice ( serves 2 – 3 people ).

Ingredients

• Garlic  1 and half tablespoon
• Chili  1/2 or 1 tablespoon
• Basil leaf
• oil ( use low oil )  3 – 5 tablespoon
• Chicken (pork or seafood)
• Fish sauce  1 – 2 tablespoon
• MSG  ( if you like )  2 pinches
• Oyster sauce 1 tablespoon ( if you like )
• Sweet black sauce  1 tablespoon
• Sugar 1/2 – 1 tablespoon

How to cook

1. First pook pook (pound in mortar) or dice & crush chili and garlic together.

2. Turn electric pan on til it gets hot, then put some oil in and wait for while until oil getting hot then put chili and garlic in.

3. After that put chicken in and cook for few minutes, until it is done. Then put some sweet black sauce, oyster sauce( if you like ), MSG ( if you like ), fish sauce , little bit of sugar (because sugar makes good flavor for everything )

4. And then put basil in, then turn the pan off and let sit for a minute.

5. Serve on top of rice as Thai style