Friday, April 29, 2011

Maing Kam

Maing Kam is one kind of munchies in Thailand. It's a munchies of central region of Thailand. The most important of this dish is "piper samentosum"

pictuer of piper samentosum from http://bit.ly/lLWiM   
Pharmacological effect of piper samentosun are Anti-agglutination of red cells, Ati-bacterial, Lower blood sugar and Compression reduces the small intestine.

Properties are hight vitamin A and Antioxidants help to carminative.

Thai prople like this kind of vegetable and we use it for our munchies that we called "Maing Kam". There are a lot of herb in this menu. It's great for your health.

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In this dish  we eat with lime, peanut, chili, dry shrimp, ginger, shallot, roast coconut and the sauce.

2 comments:

  1. what is the ingredient in the sauce?

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  2. Ingredients
    Sauce :
    1 tablespoon shrimp paste
    ½ tablespoon sliced shallots
    ½ tablespoon sliced galangal
    1 teaspoon sliced ginger
    2 tablespoons chopped dried shrimps
    2 tablespoons grated coconut
    3 tablespoons chopped unsalted peanuts
    1 cup chopped palm sugar
    2 ½ cups water

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