Thai-Steamed Pork Sausage

Thai-Steamed Pork Sausage

These are some of the most flavorsome sausages you can eat, best of all, because you make them yourself, you can ensure only the best meat goes into them. In Thailand we make these wrapped in banana leaves, but you can also steam them in tinfoil like we've done here. They can be eaten hot or cold, when serving, its normal to cut them into slices.

Ingredients
500 gms Pork Mince
2 Tablespoon Pork Fat
1/2 Teaspoons Sugar
1/2 Teaspoon Salt
1 Level Tablespoon Black Pepper
100 gms Crushed Ice
25 gms Garlic
A Food Processor/Blender

Preparation
1. Put the pork mince and fat into the blender, add the garlic, sugar, salt and pepper and blend together until the meat is smooth.
2. Crush the ice, if you don't have an ice crusher, place it in a bag, wrap a towel around it and bash it with a rolling pin to break it up.
3. Add the crushed ice to the mix and blend it until the ice is thoroughly mixed into the pork. As the sausage cooks the ice crystals melts creating a spongy texture in the sausage.
4. Roll the pork into large sausage shapes, you may find it easier to put a large lump of the meat onto tinfoil and roll the foil around the sausage. They should be wrapped completely in the foil before steaming. If you can get banana leaves, roll them in those, and tie with twine.
5. Steam in a Chinese steamer for 20 minutes.

Serve With
Fragrant Rice
Chillies
Green Vegetables

Thai-Pork Mince Omelette

Thai-Pork Mince Omelette

If you think an omelette should taste of eggs, this recipe is a wake-up call. It has a strong meaty flavour with a slight spicy after-taste that is very different from a traditional 'eggy' omelette. Best of all, it's a very easy dish to make. A good way to serve this omelette is to cut it into squares, so that it can be shared between several people as a side dish.

Ingredients for 2 People
3 Large Eggs
75 gms Pork Mince
2 Tablespoons Light Soy Sauce
1 Tablespoon Fish Sauce
1/2 Teaspoon Sugar
10 gms Coriander Leaves
10 gms Spring Onion (approx 1)
2 Big Red Chillies
100 ml Oil
1/2 Teaspoon White Pepper

Preparation
1. Chop the coriander, spring onion and chillies.
2. Whip the eggs in a mixing bowl.
3. Add the pork mince, light soy sauce, fish sauce, sugar, spring onion, coriander, and pepper. Mix thoroughly.
4. Put oil into frying pan and preheat the oil.
5. Fry the eggs mix for 1 minute.
6. Turn the omelette over and fry the other side for a minute.
7. The omelette should be cooked and golden brown. To make sure its cooked squeeze it, and no liquid should come out.

Serve With
Salad Vegetable
Hot Rice
Sweet Chilli Sauce

Thai-Corn Fritters

Thai-Corn Fritters

We eat corn in everything! You will find it in desserts for it sweetness, in soups and like here, in snacks. In Bangkok, in front of the university, there are many little food stalls to feed the hungry students, including corn fritter stalls. This is one of the few Thai dishes that isn't spicy.

Ingredient For 2 People
100 gms Corn Kernels (Maize)
1 Tablespoon Corn Flour
1 Tablespoon Wheat Flour
1 Tablespoon Cassava Starch
120 ml Water
1 Teaspoon Salt
1/2 Teaspoon Pepper
200 ml Oil
Flat Frying Pan

Preparation
1. Mix all the corn flour, wheat flour and cassava starch together with the water in a mixing bowl. You can use a ready mix batter if you prefer.
2. Add the salt, pepper and corn kernels and mix.
3. Put the oil into the frying pan and preheat the pan over a medium heat.
4. When the oil is hot take a tablespoon of the mixture and drop it into the pan to make a circular fritter.
5. Fry it for a minute on each side until it is golden brown.

Serve With
Sweet Chicken Sauce
Cucumber

Thai-Hot Dog & Spring Onion Chilli Salad

Thai-Hot Dog & Spring Onion Chilly Salad

This is a side dish that's cheap and simple, it uses hot dog sausages together with green spring onions and chilly to spice it up. In Thailand dishes like this are called "gop-gam", snacks served with beer at night, but it can also be served with rice to make a full meal.

Ingredients for 2 People
160 gms Hot Dog (1 packet)
1 Onion
20 gms Spring Onion
10 gms Coriander Leaves
10 gms Mint
4 Bird Chillies
1 Red Chilly
1 Tablespoon Lime or Lemon Juice
1 Tablespoon Fish Sauce
1/2 Teaspoon Sugar
200 ml Water

Preparation
1. Heat 200 ml water to the pan until it boils.
2. Slice the hot dogs into bite sized pieces, put in the boiling water and heat through for 2 minutes.
3. Remove the hot dogs and put in a mixing bowl.
3. Chop the bird chillies & red chilly, the onions , the spring onions ,and the coriander, and add to the mixing bowl.
4. Add the fish sauce, sugar, and lemon juice, into the bowl and mix all the ingredients together.
5. Serve it on a plate with a little mint garnish.

Serve With
Hot Rice
Salad