May 2, 2008
I know that you can’t distinguish the slices of pork from the slices of pumpkin but they are both there *lol* I have to admit that I made the sauce too thick - see that oil? most of it was from the coconut milk. This simple recipe was found from one of my Thai cookbooks. Handy whenever I couldn’t come up of something for dinner.
What you need:
- 1 tbsp oil
- 1-2 tbsp red curry paste (commercial)
- 500g lean pork but into bite size
- 1 cup coconut milk
- 1/2 cup water
- 350g butternut squash, cute into bite size
- kaffir lime leaves, 6
- 1/4 cup coconut cream (thicker than the first)
- 1tbsp fish sauce
- 1 tbsp brown sugar
- for extra thin sliced red chilies
Heat the oil in a wok, add curry paste and stir for about a minute. Add pork and stir fry over medium-high heat until golden brown. Add coconut milk, water, pumpkin and kaffir leaves, reduce heat to low leaves and simmer for 5-10 minutes. This really depends on the pork cut that you will be using so I suggest not to leave it while simmering, try to find out if your pork is cooking well. Lean pork is quite easy to over cook resulting to hardening of the meat. According to the book, the coconut cream is the last to be added but I also added it together with the milk (multi tasking that’s why) but if you want a thinner sauce, add the cream after about 5 minutes (after adding the last batch of ingredients.)
Add fish sauce to taste. And don’t forget that steamed jasmine rice!!
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May 2, 2008
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April 22, 2008
I was so happy when I heard from my Vietnamese friend who owns a store in the city that a new Thai restaurant has opened in our little town! The dutch people are more into Indonesian and Chinese meals that are both adjusted to their taste that lots of these ‘affordable’ restaurants offer meals that aren’t really authentic but suiting the dutch taste, hence thick sauce (especially in Chinese restaurants) mild taste, nasi (fried rice) are the same tasting…in short, I really don’t like most of them. Thus whenever I hear about new restaurants I become excited.
So let me go back to this new Thai restaurant in town. Needless to say my husband (who’s Thai food crazy) and I immediately tested the restaurant by having lunch there. Baby step first , so to speak . If it wont pass our taste buds then a big disappointing dinner can be prohibited. We ordered each a plate of mix starter:
upon seeing the presentation, I got a good vibes..and then I taste them; springroll with vegetables, chicken satay and fish cake,s 2 pieces each. They’re nice, the Thai taste is there especially the satay.
with peanut sauce, sweet chili sauce and a mixture of vinegar-chili sauce with cucumber pieces…quite nice.
then came the cruncher, main plate of pad Thai. This is how I personally ‘grade’ a Thai restaurant, through their padthai. My verdict: presentation was so-so, the noodles were broken into too small pieces, no peanut bits, no extra sugar, no sweet vinegar with chili chops sauce available nor fish sauce with chili chops too..and I had to ask for a slice of lemon. I could see that the owner is quite careful not to spend extra on side garnishing..I understand that. But you know what? their pad thai was good! Without those extras it came out really good 
and you’re right…we already came back there just 2 nights ago and had a huge..I mean HUGE dinner! We were fully concentrated on the food that I even refused to take photos of our meal *lol* which seldom happens.
We’re planning to eat there at least few times a month, that’s how happy we are ha ha! The only thing that was unfortunate is that this Thai restaurant was the same restaurant that used to be owned my the lone Filipino restaurant in the Netherlands. The whole restaurant was renovated and there’s not a single trace of the old one.
Nakorn Thai Restaurant
- Bezoek adres:
- Voorstraat 397
- 3311 CT - Dordrecht
- Telefoonnummer:
- Tel.078 - 6149396
- Rubrieken:
- Chinees Indische restaurants
- Catering
- Post adres:
- Voorstraat 397
- 3311 CT - Dordrecht
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