Indian - Cabbage & Mashed Potato Curry

Ingredients:

1 lb. cabbage, shredded

1/2 lb. potatoes, boiled and mashed

1 tsp. cumin seeds

1 tsp. ginger

1 tsp. turmeric powder

1 tsp. chilli powder

1 tsp. salt or to taste

2 tbsp. oil

Method:

Heat oil in a large non-stick frying pan (or skillet), and fry the cumin seeds and ginger paste for half a minute, and add the shredded cabbage. After 15 minutes, add the mashed potatoes with turmeric and chilli powders, salt, and cook for another 15 minutes.

Thai-Sticky Rice Egg Cakes

Thai-Sticky Rice Egg Cakes

These look like pancakes, but are sticky rice patties with egg soaked in them. They can be fried or barbecued and make a delicious and very easy to make snack.

Ingredients
300 gms Steamed Sticky Rice
2 Eggs
1 Tablespoons Fish Sauce
1/3 Teaspoon Black Pepper
1/3 Teaspoon Salt
2 Teablespoons Oil

Preparation
1. Whip the eggs with the salt, pepper, and fish sauce.
2. Put oil into a frying pan over a high heat.
3. Take a handful of sticky rice and flatten it out to a circle. For frying they should be about 2cms thick.
4. Dip the rice into the whipped egg, and fry in the hot pan, turning every 30 seconds until cooked.

Thai-Salted Chicken Parcels

Thai-Salted Chicken Parcels

For this dish the chicken is prepared with lots of salt and left for several days, after enough time the salt reacts with the chicken to part salt the meat.

Ingredients
200 gms Chicken Mince
3 Garlic Cloves
2 Tablespoons Salt
1 Tablespoon Chopped Bird Chillies
Aluminium Foil

Preparation
1. Mix the chicken mince with salt and chopped chillies.
2. Form a sausage shape with the mince, and double wrap the small sausages in foil.
3. Leave in the fridge for 3 days.
4. Either barbecue the foil packets on a stove, or in a dry frying pan (still in the foil), for 10 minutes to cook them.

Serve With
Coriander Leaves
Bird Chillies
Sticky Rice
Mint Leaves

Thai-Sticky Rice Balls with Fish Stuffing

Thai-Sticky Rice Balls with Fish Stuffing

This is perfect picnic food, the sticky rice forms good easy to eat balls, and the fried fish filling adds the flavor. These are very easy to eat, leaving no mess. In the photograph above, you can see where I've broken open one of the balls, so you can see the flaked fish inside.

Ingredients
150 gms Cooked Sticky Rice
80 gms White Fish, (Cod Haddock Hake etc.)
2 Teaspoons Salt
1 Tablespoons Light Soya Sauce
2 Tablespoons Oil
1/2 Teaspoon Black Pepper

Preparation
1. Put the oil into the pan over a medium heat.
2. Clean and chop the fish into steaks, fry until any water has been cooked off and the fish is dry. Remove the bones and flake the fish while it's still in the pan.
3. Add salt to the pan, add light soy sauce and black pepper
and fry continue to fry the fish until it is brown.
4. Take 30 gms sticky rice in your hand, flatten it to a disc, put a spoonful of the fish meat into the centre and fold the sticky rice over it to form a ball.

Serve With
Sweet Chilli Sauce
Coriander Leaves
Spicy Thai Salads