How to make thai food: Coconut Juice

Cold coconut juice on a hot summer day is so refreshing. The young coconut is green outside and have soft white coconut inside. After you drink the juice, the bonus is the young coconut meat inside.

In Thailand, pregnant moms are encouraged to drink young coconut juice to make their baby's skin be soft and beautiful.
1 Servings

1 young coconut

Use a big cleaver (use a meat cleaver, not a vegetable cleaver) to make a 'v' mark on the top. Pull it open and stick a straw in opening.
After you enjoy the juice, split the whole coconut open and scoop out the white coconut. Use a spoon to scoop out the coconut.
If you are having difficutly scoopying it out with just a spoon, your coconut is probably too old. A good one should have a consistency of a mazzarella.

How to make thai food: Mixed Fruit Salad with Prawns

Ingredient

3 prawns
1/4 cup fresh pineapple cut bite-size
1/4 cup green or red apple cut bite-size
1/4 cup or red grapes cut bite-size
1/4 cup grapefruit or orange wedges
1 tsp ground dried coconut
2 tbsp unsalted roasted peanuts
1/4 cup fresh mint leaves
1 tsp tom yum (chili shrimp) paste
1 tsp deep fried dried garlic
1 tsp soy or fish sauce
2 tsp lemon juice
1/2 tsp palm sugar
1 tb fish sauce

Takes 40 minutes

1. Remove the shells and the veins from the prawns, rinse them and sprinkle them with salt and dust with flour.
2. Deep fry the prawns in cooking oil until golden brown, and set aside.
3. Cut the apple bitesize and place the pieces in coldwater with lemon juice for about 20 seconds to prevent discoloring. Then remove and drain them.
4. Now put the tom yum paste in a bowl , lemon juice, soy or fish sauce, palm sugar, fried garlic and mix well
5. Add all fruit, dried coconut, roasted unsalted peanuts, mint leaves, fresh chili. Mix well.

How to make thai food: Spicy Prawn Salad

Ingredients

8 Prawns
200 ml Water
1 Tablespoon Chopped Lemon Grass
1 Tablespoon Chopped Chillies
1 Clove Garlic Chopped
1 Teaspoon Chopped Spring Onions
5 gms Mint Leaves
2 Tablespoons Fish Sauce
1 Tablespoon Lemon Juice
1/4 Teaspoon Sugar

Preparation

1. Boil the shrimp in water for 1 minute and set aside.
2. Make the spicy sauce by mixing the lemon grass, chilli, garlic, chopped spring onions, with the fish sauce, sugar, and lemon juice.
3. Layer the salad, with a bed of mint, a layer of shrimp and pour the sauce over the top.

How to make thai food: Spicy Sardine Salad

Ingredient

2 Cans of Sardines in Oil
2 Teaspoons of Tomato Puré
20 gms Lemon Grass
20 gms Coriander Leaves
50 gms Onion
2 Red Chillis
2 Bird Chillis
1 Tablespoon Lemon Juice
1 Tablespoon Fish Sauce

Preparation

1. Remove the sardines from the can.
2. Mix the oil from the can with the tomato puré in a small mixing bowl.
3. Slice the onion, lemon grass, and chilles, and add to the bowl.
4. Add the fish sauce and lemon juice and mix all the ingredients together well.
5. Pour over the sardines.
6. Chop the coriander put around the edge of the sardine plate.

How to make thai food: Glass Noodle Pork Nut Spicy Salad

Ingredients

100 gms Pork Mince
100 gms Glass Noodle
50 gms Peanut
20 gms Bird Chillies
1 Spring Onion
1 Sprig Coriander
2 Tablespoons Lemon Juice
3 Tablespoons Fish Sauce
1 Teaspoon Salt
1/2 Teaspoon Sugar
200 ml Water
2 Garlic Cloves

Preparation

1. Boil water in the saucepan, add the salt and chop the garlic and add it into the pan.
2. When the water is boiling, add the pork mince and glass noodle and simmer for 4 minutes. Then pour out half of the water.
3. Chop the chillies, spring onion, and coriander into a pot with glass noodles.
4. Toast the peanuts in a dry frying pan to bring out the flavour.
5. Add the fish sauce, sugar, lemon juice, and peanuts and then mix.

How to make thai food: Spicy Vietnamese Sausange Salad

INGREDIENTS

2 cups Vietnamese sausage

3 tbsp. sliced onion

5 red chili peppers, lightly pounded

2 ½ tbsp. lime juice

1 ½ tbsp. fish sauce

¾ tsp. sugar

4 pieces sliced tomato

2 scallions, cut into 2 inch pieces

2 Chinese, celeries, cut into 2 inch pieces

Lettuce

Cucumber


METHOD

1 Cut Vietnamese sausage into ¾ inch pieces.

2 Add onion, ground chili, fish sauce, lime juice, sugar, tomato, scallions, Chinese celery and add sausage. Mix well.

3 Serve with lettuce and cucumber.

How to make thai food: Sqiud Salad

INGREDIENTS

2 cups squid

4 ounces finely sliced shallot

4 ounces sliced onion

5 red chili peppers, lightly pounded

1 tbsp. stripped ginger

1 tbsp. sliced red hot pepper

10 mint leaves

2 tbsp.lime juice

2 tbsp. fish sauce

½ tsp. sugar



METHOD

1 Clean the squid, and cut it into bitesize pieces. Boil until just done.

2 Put all the ingredients together. Then add the squid and mix.

3 Serve over mint leaves.