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Stir Fried Broccoli with Shrimps (บล็อคโคลี่ผัดกุ้ง)

Stir Fried Broccoli with Shrimps or in Thai Broccoli-Pad-Kung is a dish that you find often in a Thai restaurant or at a Thai fast food stand in Thailand, not that common on street foods. It taste delicious, very fast and simple to cook. Only 2 main ingredients and sauces.

Ingredients

  • 500 g Brocolli
  • 300 g Shrimps or Prawns, peeled and deveined
  • 2 Tbsp Cooking Oil
  • 2-3 Garlic Cloves
  • 2 Tbsp Oyster Sauce
  • 2 Tbsp Soy Sauce
  • 1 Tbsp Sugar

Directions

  1. Wash and cut broccoli into small pieces.
  2. Heat cooking oil in a large or medium frying pan or skillet over medium to high heat.
  3. Add chopped garlic, fried until yellow brown.
  4. Add shrimps or prawn, cooked until they turn lightly pink
  5. Add broccoli, fry for about 1-2 minutes.
  6. Then add soy sauce, oyster sauce and sugar, stir and fry for about a minute, add about 3-4 tbsp of water.
  7. Stir fry until broccolis are tender or crunchy, as you like it. (I prefer them crunchy, 2-3 minutes).
  8. Best serve with rice, ENJOY !

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EN Thai Food

Tom Kha Gai (ต้มข่าไก่)

One of Thailands’s favourite dish. This recipe is easy yet delicious. If you are a vegetarian, a vegan or just simply prefer a simple dish without meat, just substitute chicken for any of your favourite vegetables such as carrots or mushrooms, fishsauce with soy sauce or salt.

Ingredients

  • 400 ml water
  • 400 ml coconut milk
  • 400 g chicken
  • 200 g mushrooms
  • 3 tbsp fishsauce
  • 1 tbsp salt
  • 1 lime
  • 2 chillies or more
  • 2 lemongrass
  • 1 galangal
  • 5 kaffir lime leaves
  • coriander

Directions

  1. In a medium size pot, boil the water.
  2. Cut chicken and mushroom into bite sizes. Cut lemongrass and galangal into big long pieces. Tear the kaffir lime leaves down a bit and chop the chillies.
  3. When the water comes to a boil, add chillies, lemongrass, galangal and kaffir lime leaves. Wait about a minute.
  4. Pour in the coconut milk carefully, wait until boil.
  5. Add the chicken, wait until the water starts to boil again then add the mushrooms
  6. Season with salt and fishsfauce.
  7. Serve in a serving bowl, squeeze in about 1/2 – 1 tablespoon of lime juice.
  8. Garnich with coriander and add any extra seasoning or chillies if needed.
  9. Served with a nice hot plate of rice and ENJOY !

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EN Pastries

Double Chocolate Muffins

This one is also an easy one to do. Nothing can really go wrong with it. I usually bake it on a lazy day. I chopped the chocolate into big chucks, because I like the texture and tase of choclate in my muffins. The coffee and salt I added really brings out the intense cocoa and chocolate taste in the muffins, don’t worry, you will neither taste the coffee nor the salt in them. This also seems to be everyone’s favourite.

Ingredients

  • 210g all-purpose flour
  • 200g granulated sugar
  • 50g unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1 tbsp instant coffee (optional)
  • 1/4 tsp baking soda
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • pinch of salt
  • 2 large free range eggs
  • 230 ml whole milk
  • 110 g melted unsalted butter
  • 150 g chocolate chip/chopped chocolate (dark, milk or mixed)

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 180°C or 350°F
  2. Line 12 muffin tins with paper cases.
  3. Sift together the dry ingredients (flour, sugar, cocoa powder, instant coffee, baking soda, baking powder and salt) together into a large bowl.
  4. Make a well in the middle of the mixture, add wet ingredients, (eggs, milk, and butter) make sure the butter has cooled down before adding to the mixture. Whisk well together.
  5. Add the the chocolate chips or chopped chocolate into the mixture, mix until well combined.
  6. Scope or spoon the mixture evenly amoung 12 muffins cases.
  7. Bake for 18-20 minutes.
  8. Enjoy your chocolate muffins warm directly from the oven or wait for them to cool down, they taste good either way.

Have you tried it ? If you did, please let me know in the comment if you liked it.

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EN Pastries

Chocolate Chip Cookies

This is one of the easierst and fastest dessert recipe, no need to chill the dough, also you can get creative with it. In this recipe, I used dark chocolate from chocolate bars and choopped them up to give it different texture throughtout the cookies. Also, I added some nougat-caramel candy, Toffifee. But you can add anything you want, like M&M, nuts, different type of chocolates, all the creativity you can think of.

Ingredients

  • 200 g softened unsalted butter
  • 360 g white granulated sugar
  • 180 g all-purposed flour
  • 180 g whole-wheat flour
  • 40 g corn starch
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp table salt/sea salt
  • 300 g chopped chocolate chunks or chocolate chips

Directions

  1. Preheat the oven to 190°C (375°F).
  2. Line a baking tray with a silicone mat or baking paper.
  3. Mix flour, corn starch, baking soda, baking power and salt in a medium size bowl.
  4. In a large bowl, beat the butter with an electric mixer until pale and smooth.
  5. Add sugar, mixed until combined.
  6. Beat in eggs and vanilla until fluffy.
  7. Then add the dry mixture into the butter mixture, fold together with a spatula.
  8. When all ingredients are combined, mix in the chocolate chucks.
  9. Use an ice-cream scoop or roll the 2-3 tbsp of dough into balls and place on to the prepared baking paper.
  10. Bake for 13-15 minutes, depending on the size and desired texture of the cookies.
  11. After baking, let the cookies cool for a couple of minutes before transferring them to a cooking rack.
  12. ENJOY !