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Khmer
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Ingredients:
- 1 kg of mud fish;
- 1 ripe coconut fruit;
- 5 trunks of citronella;
- 0.5 kg of smoke fish;
- 0.5 kg of garlic;
- Bits of saffron, Amomum Galanga, Amomum
Zingiber;
- 6 leaves of citrus hystrix and some peels;
- 2 ripe bell pepper fruits;
- 1 duck egg; salt, sugar, fish, sauce, MSG;
- Leaves of star fruit and banana trees
How to cook:
- Cut the fish in to small slices and take the
bones out
- Slice and crush the citronella trunks and
pound them together with saffron, Amomum
Galanga, Amomum Zingiber, citrus hystrix
leaves to make a mash mixture
- Slice the smoke spices into small bits
- Break the coconut fruit, squeeze the nut to
get its milk by making the phase-one milk and
phase-two milk
- Cut the ripe bell pepper into two
- Pour half of the phase-one coconut milk into
a frying pan to cook until it turns a litter
brown
- Then, put into the pan the spices and the
mash mixture, and stir it up
- Add the phase-two milk and turn off the
cooking gas after the solution becomes cooked
and dry enough
- After that, add the fish, salt, fish sauce,
sugar, egg, and fully mix up the ingredients
- Make package of banana leaves, lay star
fruit leaves at the bottom of the package,
then put enough of the cooked fish on the star
fruit leaves, and then top it with a bit of
citrus hystrix leaves and ripe bell pepper.
- Turn on the gas and cook the dish again
- Add 1 spoonful of the phase-one coconut milk
into the fish, and leave it to cook for a
short while. And the dish is done.
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K'TISS
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Ingredients:
- 0.2 kg of smoke fish; - 0.1 kg of dry freshwater
shrimp; - 0.5 kg of pig front leg meat; - 0.2 kg
of Prahok; - 1 big ripe coconut fruit; - 0.05 kg
of already sliced citronella trunks; - 0.1 kg of
smoke spices; - 0.05 kg of garlic; - A bit of
saffron, Amomum Galanga, citrus hystrix peels and
leaves; - 0.2 kg of ripe tamarind; - 0.3 kg of
Rumhorng egg plants (kind of egg plant that goes
well with the dish); - 0.2 kg of sugar; - 1 coffee
spoonful of MSG; - Fresh vegetables to be eaten
raw: Long bean, egg plant, ginger, head cabbage,
cucumber.
How to cook:
- Pound and mash the smoke fish after taking
out the bones
- Pound and mash the dry shrimps after
cleaning them
- Slice the pig meat into small bits
- Slice and mash the fish paste completely
- Cut open the coconut and get its milk: 300ml
for Phase One, and 300 ml for Phase Two
- Take out the seeds and the inside of the
smoke spices, clean them and mash them
- Slice the citronella trunks into tiny bits
and then pound them together with saffron,
Amomum Galanga and citrus hystrix leaves to
make a mash mixture.
- Mix water with the ripe tamarind and make a
small bowl of sour solution
- Fry the egg plants until they look brown
- Fry the spices until they turns red
- Cook the Phase One 300 ml coconut milk until
it turns a little brown color
- Add the fried spice and then the mash
mixture into it, and leave the combination to
shiver using medium source of cooking power.
- Put the mashed pig meat and leave it to
cook.
- Put the shrimps and smoke fish, mingle them
in the solution, then add some prahok, sugar
and some more coconut milk and leave it to
moderately shiver foe 10 minutes.
- Then, put citrus hystrix leaves and the bowl
of tamarind water, and leave the solution to
cook another 5 minutes.
- Finally put the eggplant and stir the soup.
- Then, taste it, and that's it.
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KROEUNG SOUR SOUP
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Ingredients:
- 1/2 kg of pig rib; - 5 trunks of Citronella; - 1
slice of Amomum Galanga; - A little bit of
saffron; - 3 leave plus some peels of citrus
hystrix (sour orange with rough skin, strong
taste); - 10 bits of garlic; - 5 leaves of Kantrop
(kind of fresh vegetable for sour soup); - 1/2
rice spoonful of mashed Prahok (Cambodian
traditional fermented fish paste); - 0.1 kg of
Feronia Elephantium net seeds (flat round sour
fruit); - 3 bell pepper fruits; - 2 gingers; - 0.3
kg of Water Convolvulus; - 1/2 rice spoonful of
palm sugar; - 1 rice spoonful of fish sauce; - 1/2
coffee spoonful of salt; - 1/2 rice spoonful of
Monosodium Glutamate(MSG)
How to cook:
- Neatly slice the pig rib into thumb-sized
bits and put them in a cooking pot.
- Pound an mash the thinly-sliced citronella
trunks, together with saffron, Amomum Galanga,
garlic, and citrus hystrix leaves into a mash
mixture and then put it in the cooking pot.
- Add to the pot the crushed fermented fish
paste, salt, MSG, sugar; fish sauce; and 1
soup spoonful of water. Then, mingle all the
combination in the pot.
- Cook the mixture until the meat is cooked
and soft enough, then add 1 little of water to
the pot and leave it to cook well enough for
another 5 minutes.
- Then add Feronia Elephantium net seeds, 6
slices of bell pepper fruits, and citrus
hystrix leaves, and leave it all to cook.
- Taste it, and after it tastes good enough,
and finally add the fresh short cut Water
Convolvulus. That's all. The soup is served.
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| CHEK
K'TISS DESSERT
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Ingredients:
- 1 hand of Namva banana (kid of Cambodian sweet
banana);
- 1 good ripe coconut fruit;0.5 kg of mung bean
(Vigna Sesquipedalis);
- 1 rice spoonful of sago grains;
- 3.5 kg of sugar;
- Some salt
How to cook:
- Break the coconut fruit and make coconut
milk: phase-one milk (150ml), phase-two milk
(200ml) and phase-three milk (1 litter)
- Fry the mung bean grains until they become
brown, break each grain into two parts, dry
them and soak them in the water for a while
- Clean and soak the sago grains in the water
for a while
- Peel the banana fruits, and cut them each
into 4 (for small ones) and 6 (for big ones)
parts
- Cook the phase-three coconut milk and put
the banana parts into it and leave it to boil
- Put the mung bean parts and sago grains
- Add sugar and salt to milk it taste good
when the banana is cooked and does not taste
bitter
- Then, pour the phase-two milk into it and
leave it to cook for a while. That's done.
(Note: It takes around 15 minutes to cook this
banana sweet starting from the point of
cooking the coconut milk)
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