THAI FOOD Recipes : Cooking menu Khao Soi Gai. (Northern Style Curried Noodle Soup with Chicken)

 THAI FOOD Recipes : Cooking menu  KhaoSoi Gai. (Northern Style Curried Noodle Soup with Chicken)

 THAI FOOD Recipes : Cooking menu  KhaoSoi Gai. (Northern Style Curried Noodle Soup with Chicken)

This dish takes us back in time to the mid-19th century. The trade caravans were trailing the jungles of northern Thailand along the ancient routes between India and China. Those long caravans were carrying wealth of exotic goods, leaving rich aroma of spices and the sweet scent of opium as they passed.


Ingredients

• 6 chicken thighs (about 600gr)
• 3 cups coconut milk
• 3 cups coconut cream
• 1/2 cup Khao Soi curry paste (see below)
• 3 tablespoons light soy sauce
• 1 tablespoon dark soy sauce
• flat wheat flower egg noodles (about 50-75 gr for each serving)
• oil for deep frying

Ingredients - Khao Soi curry paste

• 10 dried long chilies, deseeded (about 1/2 cup)
• 1 tablespoon ted cardamom pods
• 2 tablespoon coriander seeds
• 3 tablespoon ginger juliennes
• 10 small shallots (about 1/2 cup)
• 4 medium coriander roots (about 2 tablespoons)
• 1 tablespoon fresh turmeric (about 10 slices)
• 1 tablespoon salt
• 1/2 tablespoon curry powder

Ingredients - Garlic oil

• 3 cloves garlic, medium size
• 4 tablespoon oil

Side servings

• boiled egg
• sour pickled green mustard
• shallots
• lime wedge
• deep fried and ground dry chilies

Method

•  Start by roasting on low heat each of the ingredients to prepare the curry paste.
•  Roast the deseeded dry chilies until charred and set aside.
•  Roast together the coriander seeds and the black cardamom until fragrant and set aside.
•  Roast the ginger juliennes until slightly charred and set aside.
•  Roast the shallots until charred and set aside.
•  Roast the coriander roots until charred and set aside.
•  Roast the fresh turmeric until charred and set aside.
•  Put the charred chilies in a pastel and mortar with a salt
•  Pound the chili roughly.
•  Add the roasted coriander seeds and black cardamom, and continue to pound everything together
•  Add the curry powder
•  Continue to pound all the ingredients to fine powder.
•  Add the rest of the ingredients, the charred shallots, ginger, coriander roots and turmeric.
•  Work everything to a fine and homogenous paste. Set aside.
•  In a pot, bring to a boil over medium heat 2 cups of coconut cream with 3 cups of coconut milk
•  When the coconut starts to crack, add the chicken thighs, and cook over medium heat for about 10 minutes.
•  When the coconut cream cracks, oil will float on top, collect about a 3/4 cup of the oils and transfer it to a wok or a pan.
•  Heat the cracked coconut on a medium heat, and fry the curry paste in it.
•  Mix constantly until the curry paste is fragrant and thick. This stage is essential because it helps to melt together all the different flavors of the curry ingredient into a complete and round product.
•  Transfer the fried curry paste back to the pot where the chicken is cooking
•  stir well
•  Lower the heat, cover the pot, and simmer over a low heat for about an hour or until the chicken is tender
•  Season with light soy sauce
•  Season with dark soy sauce
•  When the chicken is tender cooked, add about a cup of coconut cream, and bring to the boil. This last addition will improve the silkiness texture of the dish. Set aside.
•  In a frying pan, add sliced garlic to cold oil, and over very low heat bring the garlic to a light golden color, remove from the heat. The garlic will keep frying in the residual heat. Set aside.
•  hake and separate the fresh noodles on a working surface
•  Fry one batch of the noodles in hot oil until golden
•  Place on paper towel to absorb excess oil. Set aside.
•  Boil the second batch of noodles in hot water for less than a minute, until done.
•  Strain and mix in about a teaspoon of the fried garlic oil. This will prevent the noodles from sticking to each other and creating a lump.
•  Transfer the noodles into a serving dish, place a chicken thigh next to it and pour over some of the curry soup. Garnish with the deep fried noodles, sour pickled green mustard, slice shallots , lime wedge boiled hard egg and fried and ground chilies.
•  Serve

                                               THAI FOOD Recipes : Cooking menu  KhaoSoi Gai. (Northern Style Curried Noodle Soup with Chicken)

                                               THAI FOOD Recipes : Cooking menu  KhaoSoi Gai. (Northern Style Curried Noodle Soup with Chicken)

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