Picturesque Post #8

Thai Coconut Soup

With the image of delicious crab dish stuck in my head, off I went to the wet market with the kids after we have our breakfast at MacDonald.
Round and round I went in the wet market but I couldn't find a single crab left. The fish monger said there were plenty early in the morning but none was left towards mid-morning. Oh dear..oh dear...I guess till next time then. So I settled for thai food instead and to be precised Thai Coconut Soup. It tasted more like tomyum actually. I found this recipe from Yummylicious-jun.blogspot


Here it goes :

10ea prawns - de-vein
5ea squids - cut into ring shape
1 tb - red curry paste
2ea - lemongrass - pounded a bit
1 inch galangal - sliced thinly
1 tomato
4 kaffir lime leaves
4 bird eye chillies - more if you want it spicier
1 onion - cut into cube
1/2 lime juice - more if you like it sour
1 cup of coconut milk
2 cups of water
fish sauce, salt and sugar to taste

Method :
Sauteed the onion. lemongrass and red curry paste.
Add in coconut milk, water and galangal.
Keep on stirring to avoid it went all lumpy.
When it at boiling point, add in bird eye chili, kaffir lime leave, prawn and squid.
Do not overcook the prawn and squid.
About 5 - 6 mins, add in the tomato.
Add lime juice, fish sauce, salt and sugar to taste.

And with that I fried some fish and stir fry some mixed vegetable to accompany this yummy soup.

Salted Egg Fried Squid

I remember last time when we had dinner with couple of friends in Bangi, we went to these restaurant called Red Wok. Quite famous with the Chinese Muslim dishes. And one of the dishes that makes me want to frequent my trip there is their famous Salted Egg Fried Squid. I browsed the internet and came across this recipe from Resepiuntuksayang blogspot. It looks simple though I need to steam the salted egg yolks but since I bought this new steamer from Tupperware, I have been thinking ways to make use of it. The steamer is quite small hence my options are limited. Even for fish, I can only steam fish cutlet instead the whole fish.

Red Steamer from Tupperware

These are the ingredients but I didn't follow exactly from the blogger.

Ingredients :

5 healthy large squid - clean, wash and cut into rings or whatever size you desire
2 stalk of curry leaves - just take the leaves
5 bird eye chillies - cut into small pieces
4 garlics - diced it
2 tbs evaporated milk
2 salted egg yolks - steamed for 5 min then mashed it
butter
eggs - beaten
Premix Fried Chicken flour - or any flavored flour for frying
salt
white pepper


Step 1 :
Blanch the squid
Dip the squid in the eggs then coat it with the Premix fried chicken flour. Then deep fry it
Put aside once all the squids have been deep fried

Step 2 :
Melt the butter in a wok
Sautee the garlic, bird eye chillies and curry leaves
Combine the steamed salted egg yolks
Add in some white pepper and salt to taste
Add in the evaporated milk until it bubbles up then combine the deep fried squid.
Make sure the sauce covers all the squid.

Wallaaaahhhh ready to eat.

That's the last portion I managed to save so that I could snap the picture. I'm really bad at taking picture. Whatever it is the family loves it.