ISARN FOOD

2007-12-17T05:09:00.000-08:00

Celery, kheun chai, Apium graveolens, also called celeriac, turniprooted celery, or Chinese soup celery, has very small stalks (only a few millimeters across) and a very strong flavor.

Coriander, phak chee, ผักชี , Coriandrum sativum, is of the parsley family. The leaves and stems are eaten fresh and used frequently as a garnish. The root and the seeds are ingredients in many dishes. The root is taken from the fresh plant. The seeds, which are roughly spherical, 2-4 cm. in diameter, and range in color from off-white to brown, have a pleasant taste and fragrance. They can be bought in the market. It is better to roast and grind seeds immediately before use than to buy ground coriander seed.

Spring onion, ton hawm, Allium fistulosum, also called green onion or scallion, has leaves that are circular in cross section. These are much used as a garnish. The bases of the plant are frequently served on the side of one-dish meals, such as fried rice, or placed on the salad plate.

2007-12-12T02:59:00.000-08:00

Garlic, kra-thiam, กระเทียม , Allium sativum, is used both by the clove and by the entire bulb, The dry papery skin and the central core should be removed from bulbs, Cloves are often crushed by hitting with a spatula or the side of a knife blade and them the skins are picked out, Pickled garlic, kra-thiam dawng, are wonderfully flavorful and can be bought by the bulb or by the jar in the market.

Shallot, hawm lek, หอมเล็ก , or hawm daeng, หอมแดง , Allium ascalonicum, is the zesty small red onion favored in Thai cooking.

Onion, hawm hua yai, หอมหัวใหญ่ , Allium cepa, has light colored bulbs that are larger and milder than those of the shallot.

Ginger, khing

2007-12-09T23:26:00.000-08:00

Ginger, khing ขิง Zingiber officinale, grows from an underground stems, or rhizome, Mature Ginger stems are buff colored; young or fresh ginger, khing awn, ขิงอ่อน, is eaten fresh and pickled as well as cooked.

Galangal, kha, ข่า, Alphinia galangal, is a larger and lighter-colored relative of ginger and has its own distinctive taste.

Krachai, กระชาย, Kaempferia pancluratum, grows bunches of slender and short yellow brown tuberous roots and is used in fish dishes.

Somtum

2007-11-27T04:38:00.001-08:00

Pound chilli and garlic roughly
Add papaya, spring beans, tomato and dried shrimp and pound roughly
Mix Som Tam sauce and season to sour taste with lemon juice and serve with fresh vegetables; cabbage, swamp cabbage and spring beans

ISarn (northeast) food.

2007-11-22T23:57:00.000-08:00

If will mention the nutrition of ISarn (northeast) person , many persons have may to know acquainted and taste prevent come to already. Member ISarn (northeast) in has way of life way unambitiously like with regard to have a meal simplely like to eat get everything, for the living stays correspond the nature in the northeast.

Member ISarn (northeast) in then know to seek for things at can eat in the locality come to modify the food eats.
ISarn food is the food that has the difference from the food of other part, and suit way of life way unambitiously of member ISarn. The food of member ISarn in each a time is will the food is simple 2-3 just a dish, which every a time will must have the vegetables is pillar gang meat majority components is will fish meat or meat buffalo beef.
The contentment in food smack of member ISarn that in has no fixed depend upon the liking of a person, but local northeast majority food then to taste the nation goes to spicy way, The salty, and sour, food ISarn important ingredients and almost is necessary be Pla Ra (pickled fish), which at born from side preservation food intellect of an ancestor of member ISarn, if will tell that every member ISarn household in must have the Pla Ra (pickled fish) keeps permanent a kitchen may not wrong extremely.
The Pla Ra (pickled fish) uses to are pillar components has of the food every a kind , be like at part middle Thai uses the fish sauce.

Jaew

2007-11-22T00:40:00.000-08:00

Jaew is closely chili sauce of member ISarn in likes to add the Pla ra (pickled fish) chops or the fish sauce sometimes add local olive is closely the olive eats with the green vegetables scald or steam the food that like to eat every a house in the ISarn because there is doing step that is simple.

Cooking natives ISarn (northeast) character

2007-11-22T00:20:00.000-08:00

Larb (The minced meat) is kind food mixes that have the meat comes to chop is powdery or slice bright powder flavors with fish chili rice sauce roasts parsley leek eats with natives vegetables likes to apply to fish pig cattle meat and a chicken.