I have to admit that in cooking Burmese food, my specialty is soup and salad. Why? Because I like soup and salad. Don't picture the western soup or salad style. It's way different.
In Burma, salads are usually the side dishes to eat it with rice, not the appetizers. :-)
About this food
This is one of my favorite side dish to eat it with. Particularly I like to eat it with stir fry or curry main dish. It took me a while to figure until I got to the perfect point.
Ingredients
- 2 pieces of Daikon (Mon Lar Oou Phyu) - you can find this in vegetable section of Grocery store
- 1 onion or 2 shallots - I prefer shallots to cook Burmese dish with since those shallots are very close in taste to those in Burma
- 5 pieces of Garlic
- 5 tbsp of Tamarind Juice - You can find that in Asian Market. I will upload photos later :)
- 2 tbsp of roasted peanuts
- 8 tbsp of vegetable oil
- 3 piece of Thai Chili (Nga Yote Thee Sein)
- 3 tbsp of Fish Sauce (Ngan Pyar Yay)
- 3 tbsp of powdered dried shrimp. - you can buy packets of dry shrimp at asian market and then grind it in the blender for further use.
- 2 tbsp of Roasted Chili Pepper - Again you can buy this ingredient at asian market.
How to cook
1. Scrape the daikons. Put 2 tbsp of salt and leave it for 15-20 minutes. After that, take out all the liquids out of the scraped daikons until it is quite dry and you can see the strings separately..
2. Cut the onions into little pieces vertically so that it should look like strings at the end. Cut the thai chili peppers into thin round pieces.
3. In a hot pan, put the oil until it is hot. Turn off the stove. Put the diced garlic in. You can put some Tumeric powder for color.
4. In a bowl, put everything in and start mixing. You can adjust the taste on your own.
It's easy. The only catching part is dicing stuff. hmm.... I like to eat this with a hot hot rice...
Sha loot,
With love,
PP
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