Thai fruit

I think you always heart about thai food that is good for your health, but Thailand have our own fruit too. Today I want to present you about " Mangosteen "

Do you know that Mangosteen is the queen of fruits. Mangosteen abound of nutrition that help you health. It can be adjusted to balance the immune system to reduce the symptom  associated with allergic inflammation landscape itself, such as liver and renal failure, diabetes, degenerative knee inflammation of blood pressure diseases like Parkinson's.Thyroid toxicity and disorder of the brain caused by inflammation.

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Nutrition
Good source of vitamin B1, B2, C, various minerals and dietary fiber


Usage
Eaten fresh and frozen or add in fruit salad and desserts.


Season
 avaiblility : Apr. - dec.

Food for health

Few weeks ago until now I and many of my friend are have a cold because of the weather, so I think your guys may be would have the same problem like us then today I would like to produce you one dish that can help you with a cold. The name of it is "Kaeng Liang"

Kaeng Liang  has a lot of value because of the ingredient. There are many herb in there. There are
Pepper    : Peptic, carminative, cooling
Shallot     : Relief cold, catarrh
Hot chilli  : Digestive, laxative, expectorant, cold relief

Sweet basil :Carminative
Gord gourd : Nourish heart, laxative, cooling
Pumpkin  : Nourish eyes

The strong point of Kaeng Liang are low fat and low calories. Fiber from vegetables.



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Ingredient

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Pepper                                              12 g.
Shallot                                              82 g.
Ground dried shrimp                        60 g.
Shrimp  paste                                   26 g.
Hot chilli                                            2 g.
Sweet  basil                                      46 g.
Gord gourd                                      108 g.
Sponge gourd                                  264 g.
Rice straw mushroom                     176 g.
Pumpkin                                         432 g.
water                                         2,224 g.

*30 grams = 1 oz. , 1 kilogram = 2.24 lbs.

serve for 6 persons

Cooking Method

1. Pound pepper, shallots and dried shrimps then add shrimp paste, mix thoroughly.

2. Dissolve the chilli paste in water and heat until boiling.

3. Add vegetables and season as taste.      

Larb

When we talk about Thai food what do you think of ?  It should be tom-yum-kung, Pad-Thai, or Som-tum.

Today I proudly to introduce you another popular one is "Larb". 

Larb is one kind of food at northeast of Thailand. This dish has a lot of herb like shallot, spring onion, mint and chilli. For who want to diet I prefer this dish because not only you can reduce fat but you can eat a delicious food too. Let's see how easy that you can do by yourself.

Ingredients

1. coarsely ground pork  350 g

2. fresh mint leaves  

3. lime juice  3 tablespoon

4. fish sauce 2 tablespoon

5. roasted sticky rice powder  2 tablespoon

6. finely chopped spring onion 3 tablespoon

7. coarsely chopped fresh coriander 2 tablespoon

8. coarsely ground dried red chilli 1 tablespoon

9. sugar 1/2  teaspoon

10. coarsely chopped shallot 1/2 cup

11. water or chicken stock 1 cup

12. 2 wedges green cabbage

13. green bean, trimmed and halved crosswise

How to ..

1. Heat the water in the saucepan ( or small pot ). Add ground pork and cook for 2 minutes, tossing often  to break up the meat. When cooked, remove the pan from the heat and drain the water.

2. Transfer the cooked pork to a medium bowl. Add the shallot, spring onion, coriander, and most of the mint , reserving a few leaves for a garnish. Add the lime juice, fish sauce, rice powder, chilli and sugar. Then stir to combine everything well.

3. Before serving, garnish before the serving dish with the cabbage, green bean and mint. 

* Thai people love it eat this dish with sticky rice and fresh vegetable.

Water lily

Have you ever heard Water lily before?

In Thailand, we have a lot of water lily and it can find so easy because Thailand has a lot of pond. Water lily is easy to growth in the weather like Thailand. Because of it easy to find Thai use it in our menu. It's called keang-sai-bua . Stem of water lily is we use to cook keang-sai-bua. It has many properties to help stimulate bowel function and who has problems with the digestive system. Sai-bua should be taken to help the intestine to function effectively too.

Keang-sai-bua

Ingredients 

1. sai-bua cut in pieces 

2. steam mackerel 

3. 1 cup of coconut milk

4. salt  1 tea spoon

5. sugar 1 table spoon

6. tamarind juice 2 table spoon

7. fish sauce 1 tea spoon

8. shallot 3 pieces

9. shrimp paste 1 table spoon

10. pepper seed 10-15 seed 

How to

bringing grain from the pepper mill is prepare thoroughly. With a shallot and shrimp paste. When the pound until fine, then dip the bowl and set aside. Then turned to set the pot on medium heat. Pound the ingredients that come into the pot and set aside. Roast the onion, then add coconut milk. Simmer all ingredients together. Then take sai-bua in the pot, and the mackerel steam in it. Stir occasionally need to be careful not to break it before adding water to.

Season with salt, sugar, tamarind, fish sauce to taste sweet relish salt and boil until soft, ripe Sai-buaaround.That's it 

When season change

This time the weather is always change. There are many people have a cold, so today I have one menu for when you have a cold or you feel it's like going to have a cold you can eat this dish it could help. Name of the dish is Pla-kung.

Pla-Kung
ingredient
1. shrimp
2. chili paste ( num-prik-pao)
3. red onion
4. lemon grass slice
5. kaffir lime leaves slice
6. parsley
7. lime juice
8. fish sauce
9. sugar
10. mint
11. chili slice

How to cook

1. start with scald shrimp
2. take lemon grass slice,  kaffir lime leaves slice, red onion, parsley together
3. take lime juice, fish sauce, chili paste, sugar and  chili slice all together
all thing is up to you taste like you like sweet, spicy,salt or not something like that