HOT THAI RECIPES

FRIED RICE AND PRAWNS (SHRIMP)
When you‘ve got one eye on the clock and a meal to make this the one! Made in a trice, yet simply stunning to look at, its taste belies its simplicity.

SON-IN-LAW EGGS
This recipe is supposedly so called because it is an easy dish for a son-in-law to cook to impress his new mother-in-law!


GREEN BEEF CURRY
This is a quickly made curry prepared with strips of beef steak, cubed aubergine (eggplant) and onion in a cream sauce flavoured with green curry paste. Serve with fluffy rice and a salad


PAW - PAW (PAPAYA SALAD)
Choose firm paw-paws – or papayas as they are something called – for this delicious salad.


(SHRIMPCELLOPHANE NOODLES WITH SHRIMPS & BEAN-SPROUTS
Cellophane or ‘glass’ noodles are made from mung beans. They are sold dried, so they need soaking before use.

HOT AND SOUR DUCK SALAD

A favorite Thai dish that can be made with chicken or beef and served with a spicy peanut sauce

Ingredients:


SERVES 4

2 heads crisp salad lettuce, washed and separated into leaves
2 shallots, sliced thinly
4 spring onions (scallions), chopped
1 celery stick, sliced finely into julienne strips
5 cm /2 inch piece cucumber, cut into julienne strips
125 g/4 oz bean-sprouts
200 g/7 oz canned water chestnuts, drained and sliced
4 duck breast fillets, roasted and sliced (see page 49)
orange slices, to serve

DRESSING:
3 tbsp fish sauce
1 ˝ tbsp lime juice
2 garlic cloves, crushed
1 red chilli peppers, deseeded and chopped very finely
1 green chilli pepper, deseeded and chopped very finely
1 tsp palm or demerara sugar

Directions

1. Mix the lettuce leaves with the shallots, spring onions (scallions) celery, cucumber, bean-sprouts and water chestnuts. Place the mixture on a large serving platter.

2. Arrange the duck breast slices on top of the salad in an attractive overlapping pattern.

3. To make the dressing, put the fish sauce, lime juice, garlic chillies and sugar into a small pan, heat gently, stirring constantly. Taste and adjust the piquancy if liked by adding more lime juice, or add more fish sauce to reduce the sharpness.

4. Drizzle the warm salad dressing over the duck salad and serve immediately.

JULEINNE STRIPS
To cut vegetable into julienne strips, first slice thinly into even-sized slices stack the slices on top of each other, then cut with a sharp knife into very thin shreds.

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