By request

[chickenfeet]

fortunatecave wanted recipes so here's the pick of Tuesday's dinner.

Gkoong Dtom Gkati Kamin

1 large stalk lemongrass
250ml coconut milk
10ml peeled and crushed fresh turmeric
4 Thai chillies - crushed
+/-30ml tamariund juice
Palm sugar
salt
350g medium shrimp - peeled, deveined and butterflied
1 shallot chopped fine
3 red or orange serranos or jalapenos cut into slivers
4 kaffir lime leaves cut into slivers

1. Trim the lemon grass and cut on the angle into longish thin ovals.

2. Bring coconut milk to a boil. Add turmeric, crushed chillies and lemon grass. Reduce heat and simmer for a few minutes. Season to taste with tamarind, salt and sugar.

3. Increase heat and add shrimp, shallot and 2/3 of the chilli slivers. Cook gently until shrimp are done. Stir in half of the kaffir lime leaves and transfer to serving dish.

4. Garnish with reserved chilli and lime slivers.

Comments

[okoshun.livejournal.com]

That sounds fantastic. You don't happen to have any similarly tasting fabulous-sounding recipes that use no meat and tofu? :)

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I think you could substitute for the shrimp in the above. Tofu should work ok or mushrooms.

[okoshun.livejournal.com]

I was thinking about that substitution myself, but wasn't sure if it would work as well as the shrimp would.

[a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com]

Might I post this to cook_with_cel so I can find it again?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Certainly