Thai Cooking Class

So one week ago we had our Thai cooking class. It was the first time for me to enter the cooking lab at the Prince of Songkla University (PSU).
One of the International Affairs Centre staff and a little woman with a large chef-hat (the cooking teacher) were waiting for us. We got to know that we will prepare the ingredients and finally cook: "shrimp in a blanket", springrolls, massaman curry, pad see euw (thick noodles with vegetables in dark sauce) and Muu Phat Bai Kaphrao (fried minced pork with spices).

As I can't descirbe all of the cooking procedures for each dish, I want to focus on one of the 50's most delicious foods in the world:

MASSAMAN CURRY

Ingredients needed: coconut milk, massaman curry, chicken, sliced potatoes, red pepper, onions, palm sugar, peanuts, tamarind sauce, fish sauce, soy sauce, bay leaves, cinnamon

How to: 

Put the coconut milk into a big frying pan and heat it, constantly stiring, till you can smell the coconut.

Put the massaman curry into the hot coconut milk and stir again, till everything is mixed well.

Put in the chicken or any other meat, as it will take longest to be done. Stir to make sure everything doesn't get burnt.

Add more coconut milk, to ensure you got a nice sauce and enough to soak off. Add sliced potatoes and peanuts.

Finally, add other spices (bay leaves, cinnamon, chilli) and let it simmer a bit. Then adjust the taste by adding fish sauce, soy sauce, tamarind sauce and a bit of palm sugar. Let it simmer a bit longer. Thats it!:)

Serve Massaman Curry with steamed rice

Enjoy!











For a more detailed descriptions please check out this recipe.