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Lawrence Wheeler's
Thai Vegetarian Recipes


Spicy Thai Pizza
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Serving Size : 6

Ingredients

3 cups Cooked brown rice
2 cups Shredded mozzarella cheese
1 cup Crunchy peanut butter
1 Egg -- beaten
Vegetable cooking spray
1/2 cup Hot water
1/4 cup Cilantro -- minced
2 tablespoons Soy sauce
3 tablespoons Dark sesame oil
1/4 teaspoon Ground red pepper
2 cups Broccoli flowerets
1 medium Red onion -- chopped
2 large Carrots -- julienned

Directions


Combine rice, 1 cup cheese, 1/4 cup peanut butter and egg in large bowl. Press firmly into 12-inch pizza pan or 10-inch pie pan coated with cooking spray. Bake at 400 degrees F. for 8 minutes. Mix remaining 3/4 cup peanut butter, water, cilantro, soy sauce, 2 tablespoons sesame oil and red pepper in small bowl; set aside.

Stir-fry broccoli, onion and carrots in remaining 1 tablespoon sesame oil in large skillet over medium-high heat until tender-crisp. Spread sauce over crust; top with vegetable mixture. Sprinkle with remaining 1 cup cheese.

Bake at 400 degrees F. for 10 to 12 minutes. Let stand 5 minutes before serving. Each serving provides: * 543 calories * 24.2 g. protein * 35.8 g. fat * 36.2 g. carbohydrate * 5.3 g. dietary fiber * 59 mg. cholesterol * 694 mg. sodium.


Thai/Hawaii Noodles

Ingredients and Directions

Cook UDON noodles ...
  • rinse cooked noodles in water to remove excess starch


  • Pour the following seasoning over noodles ...
  • vinegar - japanese or apple cider/brown - NOT white vinegar

  • sugar

  • soy sauce or salt

  • red pepper - dried flakes

  • bean sprouts - use a lot or just a little

  • --- mix the above to combine


  • Make garlic oil ...
  • put 3 large garlic cloves -diced- in very hot oil then cook

  • until it begins to brown nicely

  • --- pour garlic oil over noodles and mix to combine


  • Garnish with ...
  • plain roasted peanuts - crushed

  • a thin layer of bean sprouts

  • chinese parsley (cilantro)


  • Thai Vegetarian Noodles
    Yield: 8 servings

    Ingredients

    10 oz Pad Thai noodles
    1/4 c Olive oil
    2 ts Minced garlic
    1 c Broccoli florets
    3/4 c Sliced onions
    2/3 c Sliced snow peas
    1/2 c Diced celery
    1/4 c Julienned carrots
    1/4 c Diced red bell pepper
    1/4 c Diced mushrooms
    3 tb Crushed unsalted peanuts
    2 tb Thai sweet black bean sauce
    1 tb Rice vinegar
    2 ts Soy sauce
    1 ts White pepper
    2 tb Chopped mint leaves, plus 1 sprig mint
    1 c Fresh bean sprouts
    2 tb Thinly sliced leeks

    Directions

    Soak noodles in 8 cups cold water for 45 minutes. Drain in a colander and set aside.Heat olive oil in a large skillet over high heat. Add garlic and saute, stirring, until lightly browned, about 1 minute.
    Add broccoli, onions, snow peas, celery, carrots, bell pepper & mushrooms, and stirfry for 1 minute. Add peanuts, fish sauce, black bean sauce, vinegar, soy sauce, white pepper & noodles, and cook, stirring continuously, until heated through and well mixed, about 2 minutes
    . Stir in chopped mint. Transfer to a platter, sprinkle with bean sprout & leeks and garnish with mint sprig.


    Eggplant with Tofu
    from Keo's Thai Cuisine by Keo Sananikone

    Ingredients

    3/4 lb Japanese eggplant (about 3 cups sliced)
    1/4 lb tofu
    6 T oil
    2 to 3 cloves garlic, crushed
    1 to 5 red chili peppers, seeded and chopped
    10 to 15 sweet basil leaves
    1 to 3 T yellow bean sauce (yellow bean sauce from Thailand is saltier than sauce from Hong Kong or China, so season to taste)

    Directions

    Slice unpeeled eggplant crosswise into slices 1/8-inch thick. Cut tofu into 1/2-inch cubes. Heat oil in skillet; add garlic and stir-fry until light brown (don't burn!). Add eggplant and tofu and cook for 5 to 7 minutes. Add remaining ingredients; mix gently. Serve immediately, since eggplant and basil turn dark if dish sits after cooking.
    Makes 3 to 4 servings.


    Hot & Sour Mushroom Soup
    (Tom Yam Het)
    Yield: 3 servings

    Ingredients

    3 c Vegetable stock
    1 ts Nam Prik Pow sauce
    1 Inch Lemon grass -- finely chopped into rings
    3 Kaffir lime leaves -- roughly torn into three
    1 ts Sugar
    2 tb Lemon juice
    2 oz Oyster mushrooms -- coarsely separated -OR- button mushrooms
    2 sm Fresh red or green chilis
    - (more if desired)
    -- crushed to split open

    Directions

    In a large pan, bring the vegetable stock to the boil and stir in the Nam Prik Pow sauce. Add the remaining ingredients and simmer, stirring well until the mushrooms are just cooked but still al dente. Pour into a serving bowl and garnish with coriander leaves.

    Source: Thai Vegetarian Cooking by Vatcharin Bhumichitr


    Chin Som Ngiaaw

    Ingredients

    1. 2 cups of uncooked long grain rice
    2. 1 pound of lean ground beef
    3. 3-4 table spoons of thin soy sauce (sii- iw^ khaao+)

    Condiments:
    1. "gra'thiem- jiaaw"- (chopped garlic, cooked in hot oil til yellow)
    2. "hawm daeng- soi"- (sliced shallots)
    3. "ton hawm soi"- (cut-up scallions or green onion)
    4. "prig^ khii nuu haeng" thawd" (fried dried mouse-shit pepper)

    Directions

    1. Cook rice with a tiny-bit little less water than usual. (normal is 1 1/4 cup water to 1 cup rice)
    2. Empty cooked rice into a big bowl, put beef and thin soy sauce.
    Mix it well (your hand can be the best tool :>).
    3. Devide the mixed ingredients in to portions. Wrap each portion with aluminum foil.
    4. Steam them for 25-30 minutes
    P.S. If you use fresh or frozen banana leaves to wrap it instead of aluminum foil...you'll get a much better taste!


    Fried Rice with Basil
    (Khao Pad Krapow)
    Yield: 2 servings

    Ingredients

    1 Garlic clove; finely chopped
    1 sm bundle long beans OR French/Snap beans cut into 1/2" pieces
    3 sm Fresh red or green chilis-- finely chopped
    1 c Fresh button mushrooms -- halved
    1 sm Red or green pepper; diced
    1/2 ts Sugar
    1 sm Onion; chopped
    3 tb Light soy sauce
    2 c Cooked rice
    15 Sweet basil leaves

    Directions

    In a wok or frying pan/skillet, heat the oil until a light haze appears. Add the garlic and chilis and fry until the garlic is golden brown. Add the mushrooms and onions and stir quickly. Add the cooked rice and stir thoroughly. Add the long beans, peppers, sugar and light soy sauce and stir thoroughly. At the last moment quickly stir in the basil leaves and turn on to a serving dish.


    Miang Kam

    Ingredients

    -shredded coconut (a cup)
    -diced red union (half a cup)
    -diced lime (half a cup)
    -peanuts (half a cup)
    -dried shrimps (half a cup)
    -"shaploo" leaves (50-70 leaves)
    -sliced hot greet pepper (option) (a table spoon)
    -sliced lemon grass (option) (half a cup)

    Sauce
    Shrimp Paste(one third of a cup)
    coconut sugar (two thirds of a cup)

    Directions

    -heat the sugar until it melts then add the shrimp paste, stir it while it is boiling or it will burn; taste (after it cools!) if it tastes right or add some of the sugar or shrimp if needed. (The right taste should be between sweet and salty.)

    Instructions for the preparing the shredded coconut:
    Buy a whole coconut from any food market . It should not cost more than $1 (or 5 baht in Thailand). Then break open the shell and take out the meat. Wash it thoroughly.. Then shred it (without peeling the brown skin that is attached to the white part to the shell) into a 1x1 milimeter shreds. Put the shredded coconut in a hot pan and stir it until it is all brown (should take about 20 minutes with medium heat)

    How to serve

    Arrange all the ingredients in a compartmentalized dish (if you have one, otherwise put each ingredient in cup). Each guest will sit around preparing his/her own portion. If "Shaploo" leaves are not available, lettuce or spinach could be substituted. Each person takes some of each ingredient and puts it on the leaf, drop about half a tea spoon of the sauce on them; wrap the leave and eat it. The combination of the taste and smell is the rule of the game! One can leave anything out if does like it but make sure the lemon slice is used.


    Green Vegetable Curry
    (Gaeng paak Keow Waan)

    Ingredients

    You need some Jasmine Rice (Khaw hawm), and some nam phrik kaeng khiaowan (green curry paste) which you convert to curry sauce as follows:

    ingredients - nam jim kaeng khiaowan (green curry sauce)

    nam phrik kaeng khiaowan (green curry paste)
    1 cup coconut milk
    2 tablespoons Maggi sauce
    1 tablespoon nam tanpaep (palm sugar)
    1 tablespoon kratiem (garlic), minced
    1 tablespoon phrik ki nu (green Thai mouse-shit chillies), finely sliced
    1 tablespoon kha (galangal), grated (Lemon-grass is okay, too)
    1 tablespoon bai chi (coriander/cilantro), finelychopped
    1 tablespoon nam manao (lime juice)
    1 tablespoon bai manglaek(sweet basil), finely chopped
    1 tablespoon prikthai ong (green peppercorns)
    1tablespoon nam phrik paw (roasted chillies in soybean oil)
    2 bai makrut (kaffir lime leaves), shredded, or half a teaspoon lime zest
    freshly ground prikthai (black pepper) to taste.

    Directions

    In a saucepan over medium heat combine the ingredients and simmer for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Taste for flavour balance and adjust as necessary. Transfer to a sauce boat or small bowl.

    To complete the dish you need half a cup each of various vegetables to makea total of 3 cups. I suggest cauliflower (separate the florets, and slice thestalk thinly), asparagus, baby corn (cut lengthwise in half), bamboo shoots,Thai eggplants (or standard aubergine, cut into balls with a melon baller), and snow peas.

    Place these in a bamboo steamer and steam until barely cooked (they should still be firm and snap when bent).

    Serving & Storage

    Place the vegetables in separate serving bowls. Each diner then helps themselves to rice, a selection of vegetables, and the curry sauce. For flavour contrast the vegetables can also be eaten with any of the standard Thai dipping sauces (adjusted if necessary to vegetarian/vegan requirements).

    Serves 4


    Paak Tom Kati

    Description

    The name literally means 'vegetables boiled in coconut milk'.

    makheua phuang are very small Thai eggplants, that resemblecrunchy garden peas. If (as I expect) they are not available near you, then I suggest you use tender garden peas, raw. If you can only get frozen peas, then drop them in hot, not boiling water, until defrosted, then transfer to ice water to stop the cooking and then strain thoroughly.

    If paak bung (swamp cabbage) is not available substitute spinach.

    Thai long beans, tua paak yao (sometimes called yard beans or yak's tails), can be replaced with ordinary western long beans.

    prikthai ong, or green peppercorns are sold in Thailand on the stem, making them easy to discard before serving, but I suggest that if you canonly get loose peppercorns, that you put them in a small muslin bag or 'spiceball'

    Ingredients

    1 cup coconut milk half a cup makheua phuang (Thai eggplant)
    cup tua phak yao (long beans), broken into 2" pieces
    cup of mushrooms, sliced
    cup phak bung (swamp cabbage), shredded
    cup phakat khao (Chinese cabbage)
    2 tablespoons hom daeng (shallots/purple onions), sliced finely
    1 tablespoon light soy sauce
    1 tablespoon [palm] sugar
    1 tablespoon prik ki nu daeng (red mouse shit chilis), finely sliced
    1 tablespoon prikthai ong (green peppercorns)
    1 teaspoon bai makrut (kaffir lime leaves) shredded, or teaspoon of lime zest

    Directions

    In a saucepan bring the coconut milk to a gentle simmer and mix in the sugarand soy sauce, and stir in the lime leaves. Add the shallots and pepper, and gently simmer for 1-2 minutes until aromatic. Taste for the balance of sugar and salt, and adjust if necessary.

    Add the vegetables, and return to a boil. Simmer gently until just cooked (If using garden peas, do not add them until the other ingredients are almost cooked, and then serve as soon as they are warmed through).

    Remove the peppercorns, and serve with either rice or noodles

    serves 4


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