A healthy, refreshing and appetising Thai favourite, recreate it at home with this simple recipe.This is a popular snack around many parts of Thailand, and is often sold on the streets. Served with many individual ingredients on the side, this snack is eaten by wrapping the ingredients in a mieang kam leaf, and chewed in a single bite. After all, mieang means “food wrapped in leaves”, and kam means “one bite”.
Serving: Makes 10 pieces
Difficulty: Easy
Preparation Time: 30mins
Cooking Time: 30mins
Ingredients:
Sauce
15g shallots, sliced
15g young ginger, sliced
15g galangal, sliced
200ml water
10g shrimp paste
100ml coconut milk
30g palm sugar or white sugar
10g grated coconut
10g shrimp powder
Filling
20g peanuts
20g dried shrimp
15g toasted grated coconut
15g ginger, diced
10g bird’s-eye chillies (cili padi), diced
25g lime, diced
10 pcs mieang kam leaves (daun kadok)
Method:
To prepare the sauce
1. Stir-fry the sliced shallots, ginger and galangal until fragrant.
2. Then, using a blender, combine this mixture with the water and shrimp paste until fine, then setaside.
3. In a pot, boil the coconut milk and sugar, then add in the blended ingredients and cook until you achieve a thick consistency.
4. Finally, add the grated coconut and shrimp powder and mix well. Set aside.
To prepare the filling
1. Separately stir-fry the peanuts and dried shrimp with some oil until crispy and fragrant, then set aside.
2. Stir-fry the grated coconut without oil until crispy and fragrant, then set aside.
3. Separately dice the ginger, bird’s-eye chillies and lime into tiny cubes.
4. Serve the individual ingredients in separate small bowls.
5. Mix the ingredients in a mieang kam leaf with sauce for one serving.
Tips:
1. You may also substitute mieang kam leaves with dark green lettuce salad leaves or young Chinese kale (kailan) leaves.
2. You can make your own shrimp powder. Simply blend dried shrimp (washed) finely into powder form.
3. We recommend adding one tablespoon of mieang kam sauce for each serving (one leaf). However, you can adjust this to your preference.
*This recipe can be found along with other Thai food recipes in the Rama V cookbook, now available at leading bookstores.
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