Kiama-april-18 – Health and Happy Heart

​LARB LAOIngredients:

  • Vegan Marinated Mushroom stick Lamyong 600g
  • Roast Rice powder Viet Huong         1 sachet
  • Snow white Wood ear fungus          2 handfuls
  • Certified Organic Olive oil            2 table-spoons
  • kaffir lime leaves                          20-30 leaves
  • Lemon grass stems                   6
  • Perilla                                     1 cup
  • Green chillies                        3-5
  • Lemon                                   1
  • Pink Salt                                2 teaspoons
  • Mother of herbs                     5 leaves

Method:

  • Soak wood ear fungus in cool water for 5 mins
  • In a pan with olive oil, Fry thawed Shitake Mushroom sticks until brown
  • Turn off heat
  • Add finely chopped kaffir lime leaves
  • Add Finely chopped {after beating} the lemon grass stems
  • Add Finely chopped perilla
  • Add Finely chopped wood ear fungus
  • Add Chopped green chillies
  • Add Finely chopped Mother of herbs
  • Add Roast rice powder
  • Squeeze the lemon into the mixture
  • Salt
  • Massage the ingredients together with cleaned loving hand.
  • Taste and Serve
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GREEN PAPAYA SALADIngredients:

  • Fresh green papaya                  1
  • Purple carrot                        1
  • Orange carrot                        1
  • Green chillies                        3
  • Salt                                 3 tspoons
  • Snake beans                         8
  • Punnet of cherry tomatoes            1
  • Almond meal                         3 Tspoons
  • Lemon                               1
  • Certified Organic Raw sugar           1 Tspoon
  • Garlic chives                        1/3 cup

Method:

  • Peel, remove seeds and grate green papaya (use ½ of the pawpaw only)
  • Grate Purple carrot
  • Grate Orange carrot
  • In a huge mortar add 3 green chillies and salt
  • Add snake beans
  • Add garlic chives
  • Add cherry tomatoes,
  • Add almond meal
  • Add juice and some coarsely chopped rind of a lemon
  • Add raw sugar
  • Use pestle to mix all ingredients together and taste to suit all participants
  • Serve
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GREEN TOFU CURRYIngredients:

  • MayPloy Coconut cream 450g               1
  • Crispy frozen Lamyong tofu                600g
  • Maesri green curry paste                  3 Tspoons
  • Coriander                                 1 bunch
  • Lemon grass                              4 stalks
  • Kaffir lime leaves                         20
  • Certified organic olive oil                  3 Tspoons
  • Malaysian satay tofu                       1 pack
  • Salt                                      2 tspoons
  • Snake beans                              1 bunch
  • Rice field herb                           ½ bunch

Method:

  • In a pot, add oil and coconut cream
  • Add coarsely chopped lemon grass
  • Add kaffir lime leaves
  • Add 100ml coconut cream
  • Add green curry paste
  • And fry for 5 mins
  • Then add Malaysian satay tofu
  • Add defrosted tofu
  • Add coriander
  • Add rice field herb
  • Add snake beans
  • Add the less of coconut cream
  • Add salt
  • Bring to boil and turn off heat
  • Serve with rice or bread
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Sticky Rice steamed
Ingredients:

  • Sticky Rice                          1kg
  • Water                               2kg

Method:

  • Washed and Soaked rice for 6 hours or over night with cold water
  • Drain the water
  • In a Lao steamer, spoon or pour rice into the basket
  • In the bottom of the steamer, add 3 cups of water
  • Cook for 15 mins (hot water to start with in the pot)
  • Serve