Rakhine food recipes

Fried Shrimp Cakes (ပုဇြန္ဆုပ္ေၾကာ္)

2016-04-10T10:49:00.001-07:00

Ingredients:

1. Medium or large Shrimps 1.5 lbs

2. 3 of eggs

3. Green chilies (slices)

4. Black pepper (as necessary)

5. Salt as necessary

6. 1 tbl spoon of corn starch

7. Cooking oil (amount that covers the fish cakes)

ပါဝင္ပစၥည္းမ်ား

၁။ ပုဇြန္ ၁.၅ ေပါင္

၂။ ၾကက္ဥ ၃ လံုး

၃။ င႐ုတ္သီးစိမ္း ၄ လံုး

၄။ င႐ုတ္ေကာင္း အနည္းငယ္

၅။ ဆား လိုသေလာက္

၆။ ေကာ္မုန္႔ ၁ ဇြန္း

ရ။ ပဲဆီ (ပုဇြန္ဆုပ္ျမဳပ္ႏိုင္တဲ့ ပမာဏ)

How to do?

1. Peel the shrimps and remove the shells.

2. Grind the peeled shrimps in the blender.

3. Put the shrimps into a large bowl and add the beaten egg, chilies, pepper, salt and corn starch and then, mix and stir.

4. Form into patties and fry in the heated oil until they are nicely browned.

ျပင္ဆင္ပံု

၁။ ပုဇြန္ေတြကို အခြံခြာ ေခါင္းေတြကိုပစ္ပါ။
၂။ ပုဇြန္အသားေတြကို Blender ထဲမွာ ထည့္ႀကိတ္ပါ။
၃။ ႀကိတ္ထားတဲ့ ပုဇြန္ေတြ ကို ဇလံု တစ္ခုထဲ ထည့္ၿပီး ၾကက္ဥ၊ ေကာ္မုန္႔၊ င႐ုတ္သီးစိမ္းစိတ္၊ သ႐ုတ္ေကာင္း နဲ႔ ဆားေတြကို ထည့္ၿပီး နယ္ပါ။
၄။ ၿပီးရင္ လိုခ်င္တဲ့ ပံုစံ အျပား သို႔မဟုတ္ အဆုပ္ လုပ္ထားပါ။
၅။ ေနာက္ ဆီပူပူ ထဲထည့္ေၾကာ္ပါ။
၆။ အနီေရာင္ သန္းလာရင္ ဆယ္ယူၿပီ ဆီစုပ္တဲ့ စကၠဴေပၚမွာ အေအးခံလိုက္ပါ။

Shredded Chicken Salad (ခ်ဥ္စပ္ ၾကက္သားသုပ္)

2016-01-14T11:31:00.002-08:00

Ingredients
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1. A whole chicken
2. A piece of ginger
3. 5 green chilies
4. 1 onion
5. 1 lime
6. A half of bunch of Cilantro (Coriander)

ပါဝင္ပစၥည္းမ်ား

- ၾကက္တစ္ေကာင္
-ဂ်င္း (လက္တစ္ဆစ္ခန္႔)
- င႐ုတ္သီးအစိမ္း (၅ လံုး)
- ၾကက္သြန္နီ တစ္လံုး
- သံပုရာသီးတစ္လံုး
- နံနံပင္

How to do?

1. Cut the chicken into 4 or 5 pieces

2. Bring a cup salted water to a simmer.

3. Add Chickens and cover and cook over low heat until it is cooked.

4. When it is well done, drain the water.

5. Then shred the chicken and add chili slices and onion slices

6. Add Lime juice and salt a bit and mix it.

7. Toss with cilantro.

ဘယ္လိုလုပ္ရမလဲ?

၁။ ၾကက္တစ္ေကာင္ကို ၄ စိတ္ သို႔မဟုတ္ ၅ စိတ္ စိတ္ပါ။

၂။ အိုးထဲမွာ ေရတစ္ခြက္ေလာက္ထည့္၊ ဆားနဲနဲထည့္ ၿပီး ဆူေအာင္တည္ထားပါ။

၃။ ၿပီးရင္ ၾကက္သားေတြ ကို ေရပူထဲ ထည့္ၿပီး အဖံုးဖံုးၿပီး မီးနည္းနည္းနဲ႔ က်က္ေအာင္ခ်က္ေပးပါ။

၄။ ၾကက္သားက်က္ရင္ ကိုယ္လိုသေလာက္ အရြယ္အစား ကို လက္နဲ႔ ႏႊာေပးပါ။

၅။ ၿပီးရင္ လွီးထားတဲ့ င႐ုတ္သီးစိမ္း နဲ႔ ၾကက္သြန္နီ၊ ဆား နဲနဲ ကို ၾကက္သားထဲ ထည့္ပါ။

၆။ သံပုရာသီး ညစ္ထည့္ုပီးႏွယ္ပါ။

၇။ ႀကိဳက္ရင္ နံနံပင္ ေလးျဖဴးစားႏိုင္ပါတယ္။

ဆီမပါပဲ ခ်ဥ္စပ္ေလးမို႔ အရသာေတြ႕ၾကမယ္ထင္ပါတယ္။

Bamboo Shoots Soup

2015-09-19T18:44:00.003-07:00

Ingredients

1. A pack of bamboo shoots

2. 1 teaspoon of crushed red chili

3. 1 tablespoon of shrimp/fish paste

4. 1 tablespoon of dried shrimp powder

5. Salt

How to do?

1. Slice the bamboo and then wash

2. Pour some of the water (as you desire) into a pot.

3. Add Shrimp Paste and shrimp powder and salt

4. Bring to a boil and add Bamboo Shoots slices and chili crushed powder

5. Bring it back to a boil again and adjust the taste.

Now, you know how easy to make it. :)

Cucumber with small dried shrimps

2015-07-12T16:06:00.002-07:00

Ingredients

1. 2 Cucumbers
2. 1 table spoon of chilli paste
3. 2 table spoons of dried shrimps
4. 1 tea spoon of shrimp paste (fish paste)
5. Coriander (cilantro) leaves or lemon basil leaves

How to do?
1. Pound first dried shrimps into course paste or powder
2. Peel cucumber and cut it into desired pieces (Not small size)
3. Wash and put them into a medium pot and add chili paste, pounded shrimp powder, shrimp paste (fish paste), salt
5. Pour some water to cover the cucumbers. (be careful Not to add too much water)
6. Cook it over high or medium.
7. When it boils, remove from the heat and Add Coriander leaves or lemon basil leaves

Then ready to eat.

Oyster yellow curry

2014-08-15T18:15:00.000-07:00

Ingredients
1. A jar of shucked Oyster meat
2. 1 shallot
3. 1/2 inches of ginger
4. 1/4 tbls of turmeric powder
5. 2 tbls of cooking oil

How to do?

1. Rinse the oysters after draining them.

2. Pound Shallot and Ginger to be a course paste

3. Add oil, paste and turmeric powder into a pan and saute'

4 Then, add oysters and pour the small amount of water and bring to a boil.

6. Adjust the taste.

Roasted dried small shrimp

2014-04-26T17:19:00.003-07:00

Ingredients

1. A pack of dried small shrimp
2. Green chilies (You don't need to slice)
3. Salt if necessary (Some dried small shrimps are already salty.)
4. A slice of lemon

How to do?

1. Wash the dried shrimps
2. Put in a saucepan.
3. Add green chilies and salt (if necessary)
4. Roast over the low heat and stir continuously.
5. When the shrimps are cooked well, it will ready to serve.

Long beans with shrimp paste

2014-04-10T19:08:00.004-07:00

Ingredients

1. 1 bunch of long beans
2. 1/2 tbls of shrimp paste
3. Green chilli slices (3 to 4 chilies)
4. 1 tbls of dry shrimps (optional)
5. Salt to taste

How to do?
1. Chop the long bean into 2 inches segment.
2. Set aside after washed them.
3. Pour a small amount of water (1 to 2 in ) into a saucepan.
4. And add shrimp paste and salt.
5. Bring to a boil over high heat.
6. Then add the long beans and chili slices.
** Do not cover the lid
7. When the long beans are cooked well, it will be ready to eat.

Green Eggplant with dried small shrimp

2014-03-14T18:13:00.001-07:00

Ingredient

1. 8 or 9 small green eggplants
2. Sliced Green Chilies (4 to 6 chilies)
3. 1/2 teaspoon of Shrimp Paste
4. A cup of coriander leaves
5. A pack of dried small shrimps (You may use half a pack)
6. salt to taste

How to do?

1. Cut each eggplant into 4 pieces and wash them.

2. Put the eggplants into a saucepan.

3. Add the chili slices and shrimp paste

4. Pour water. (just cover the eggplants)

5. Cook over high heat and bring to a boil.

6. Add dry shrimps and salt

7. When the eggplants are cooked well, turn off the heat.

8. Sprinkle the coriander leaves.

Smelt Fish curry

2014-02-05T14:31:00.002-08:00

Ingredients

1. 1 pack (about 20 to 30 fishes) of smelt fish

2. 1 shallot

3. 2 in of ginger

4. 1/4 tbls of turmeric powder

4. Green chilies slices (5 to 6 chilies)

5. 1/4 tbls of fish paste

6. A lump of tamarind (soak in water)

7. A cup of coriander

8. Salt

How to do?

1. Clean and wash the smelt fishes.

2. Blend or pound the shallots and ginger.

3. Put the fishes into a saute pan.

4. Add the pounded/blended onion and ginger.

5. And add turmeric powder and fish paste.

6. Pour small amount of water and add salt to taste.

7. Cook it over medium heat and bring to a boil.

8. Add tamarind juice by squeezing the soaked tamarind and chili slices.

9. Reduce heat to low until the fishes are cooked well.

10. Sprinkle coriander leaves over it.

Perfect Match : Roselle leaves soup (Chaing Pong Hunn Ray)

http://rakhinefood.blogspot.com/2012/04/roselle-leaves-soup-chaing-pong-hunn.html

Chili and raw Tamarind paste

2014-01-23T15:02:00.001-08:00

Ingredients

1. Green raw tamarinds (7 to 10)

2. 15 green chilies

3. 1 tablespoon shrimp paste

4. 1 tablespoon of dried shrimp

5. Salt

How to do?

1. Wash the tamarinds properly.

2. Place the tamarinds into the mortar and pestle.

3. Pound with the pestle a few times

4. Add chilies and pound again.

5. Add shrimp paste and dried shrimps

5. Add salt to taste

6. Pound to a coarse paste.

Try it. It will make you get the best appetite. :)

2013-08-15T06:40:00.002-07:00

Crab Fingers with Basil Leaves

Ingredients

1. 1.5 kg of crab fingers

2. 3 tablespoons of red chilli paste

3. 1 teaspoon of rice powder

4. 1 small shallot (coarse paste)

5. ¼ tablespoon of shrimp paste

6. ¼ tablespoon of turmeric powder

7. A lump of tamarind (soak in water)

8. Salt and chicken stock

9. A cup of basil leaves

How to do?

1. Wash crab fingers and crack them gently.

2. Put them into a medium pot.

3. Add chilli paste, shrimp paste, shallot coarse paste, turmeric powder and rice powder.

4. Pour water as you desired

5. Cook it over medium heat and bring to a boil.

6. Add tamarind juice by squeezing the soaked tamarind.

7. Add salt and chicken stock and try the taste.

8. Sprinkle basil leaves

Tomato and Cabbage salad (Sat Tha Ni)

2012-11-17T23:02:00.004-08:00

Ingredients

1. 3 or 4 tomatoes
2. 3/4 of small cabbage
3. 1 onion (sliced)
4. 4 or 5 green chillies (Sliced)
5. Salt and chicken stock

How to do?

1. Cut tomatoes into very thin slices.
2. Set aside
3. Shred cabbage very thinly
4. Put tomatoes slices and cabbage slices into a bowl.
5. Add onion slices and green chilles slices
5. Mix all together
6. Add salt and chicken to taste

This salad and chicken curry are perfect match. :)

Potato cake

2012-10-27T22:42:00.000-07:00

Ingredients

- 5 large potatoes

- 3 tablespoons corn flour powder

- 25 grams chopped meat (chicken or pork or beef)

- 2 medium onions (sliced)

- 6 or 7 green chillies

- 1/4 tbl turmeric powder

- Peanut oil for frying

- A pack of masala

- Salt and chicken stock

How to do?

1. Boil the potatoes until they are cooked and softened.

2. Peel the potatoes and mash.

3, Add salt and corn flour powder

4. Mix well together and set aside.

5. Heat oil (1 tbl) in a saucepan and fry the chopped meat

6. Add masala powder, turmeric powder, onion slices, sliced green chillies, salt and chicken stock.

7. Keep stirring until it is cooked.

8. Take a lump of mashed potato and form a around 4cm dia ball of potato in your hand.

9. Flatten the potato into a disc and fill a spoon of cooked meat and wrap the potatoe into a flat ball.

10. Garnish the corn flour powder over the balls.

11. Preheat a deep fryer and drop the balls into the hot oil

12. Wait until they turn into golden color.

Potato cakes are ready for you. :)

Roasted Ray Fish Salad

2012-10-08T06:01:00.000-07:00

Ingredients

½ kg Ray Fish
10 – 15 green chillies
1 shallot
1 big onion (Sliced)
0.5 inch of ginger
1 lime (Sliced)
A cup of coriander leaves

How to do?

Roast ray fish in oven
Debone the roasted fish.
Roast green chillies in a flat pan.
Pound green chillies together with shallot and ginger into a coarse paste.
Mix deboned roasted fish and chillies paste.
Squeeze lime slices to add lime juice.
Add salt and chicken stock to taste.
Sprinkle onion slices and coriander leaves.

Rakhine green chilli paste

2012-09-22T19:20:00.000-07:00

Ingredients

25 to 30 small green chilies
4 garlic cloves
1 tablespoon shrimp paste
1 tablespoon dried shrimp (optional)
Salt and chicken stock

How to do?

Roast green chillies in a pan until its skins are blistered.
Place the roasted chillies into a mortar and pestle.
Add shrimp paste, garlic cloves, dried shrimp paste, salt and chicken stock.
Pound into a coarse paste.

Bottle Gourd and Glass noodles soup

2012-09-14T00:00:00.000-07:00

Ingredients

- 1 bottle gourd

- 1 pack (100 g) glass noodle

- 100 g dried bean curd

- 2 cups of fresh or dried black wood ear mushroom (optional)

(also called "tree ear" or "black fungus")

- An thin omelette

- 1 cup of baby prawns

- 1 teaspoon of shrimp paste

- A cup of coriander leaves

- Salt and chicken stock

How to do?

Peel and Cut the bottle gourd into serving size of pieces
Soak bean curd and glass noodles
Clean baby prawns and remove its shells
Pound baby prawns into coarse paste and set aside
Pour water as you desired into a medium pot
Add baby prawns paste and shrimp paste
Cook it over medium heat and bring a boil
Add salt and chicken stock to taste
Add bottle gourd pieces and soaked dried bean curd and mushrooms
When bottle gourd pieces are cooked well, add glass noodles
Chop omelette into a small pieces
Sprinkle chopped omelette and coriander leaves over the soup

Please try it. It is so yummy.

Green Eggplant with Small Potatoes (Kha Ran Thee nat Ar Lu Chay)

2012-09-06T22:52:00.000-07:00

Ingredients

- 10 small green eggplants

- 50 kg small potatoes

- 10 green chillies (sliced)

- 1 tablespoon shrimp paste

- Salt and chicken stock to taste

- A cup of coriander leaves

How to do?

Cut each eggplant into four parts.
Cut small potatoes in half
After they are washed, put them into a saucepan.
Add chillies and shrimp paste
Pour 2 cup of water
Cook over a medium heat.
When it starts to boil, add salt and chicken stock.
After most of water has been absorbed, sprinkle coriander leaves.

Shrimp and cucumber soup

2012-08-30T20:47:00.000-07:00

Ingredients

½ kg medium shrimp

2 cucumbers

3 and ½ tablespoons red chilli paste

1 teaspoon of shrimp paste

¼ tablespoon of turmeric powder

A cup of fresh basil leaves

Salt and chicken stock

How to do?

1. Devein and wash shrimps

2. Peel cucumber and cut into serving-size pieces

3. Place shrimps and cucumber slices in to a medium pot.

4. Add Chilli paste and shrimp paste.

5. And , add turmeric powder

6. Add water as you desired

7. Cook it over medium heat.

8. When it gets boiled, add salt and chicken stock to taste.

9. Add basil leaves.

Fish head soup

2012-08-23T20:31:00.001-07:00

Ingredients

- 1 Fish head (I used catfish head)

- 3 tablespoons of red chilli paste

- 2.5 tablespoons of peanut oil

- 1 shallot

- 5 cloves of garlic

- 1 inch piece of ginger

- ¼ tablespoon of turmeric powder

- 2 or 3 stalks of fresh lemongrass (Sliced)

- 2 lemons (Sliced)

- ¼ tablespoon of shrimp paste

- Salt and chicken stock

- A cup of coriander leaves or basil leaves

How to do?

Clean and wash fish head
Pound shallot, garlic and ginger together.
Heat oil in a pot over low heat.
Add chilli paste, turmeric powder, shallot, ginger, garlic paste and shrimp paste and sauté.
Add fish head and pour water as you desired.
Add sliced lemongrass and bring to a boil.
Add squeezed lemon juice
Add salt and chicken stock and adjust the taste.
Sprinkle with coriander leaves or basil leaves.

Squid Salad (Ra Gra Thoat)

2012-08-16T20:51:00.000-07:00

Ingredients

½ kg squid

12 green chillies

1 shallot

½ inch piece of ginger

1 teaspoon of black pepper

1 lime (sliced)

A cup of coriander leaves

Salt and chicken stock

How to do?

Pour some water into a pot and add 1/2 teaspoon salt.
Heat to boiling over high heat
Clean squid and rinse them under cold running water.
Add them to boiling water
Cook until tender
When they are cooked very well, drain water and let it be cool.
After that, slice squid into rings or cut into serving-size pieces and set aside
Roast green chillies in a pan until its skins are blistered.
Pound roasted chillies, ginger, shallot and pepper together into a coarse paste.
Mix squid slices and coarse paste in a big bowl.
Add salt and chicken stock to taste
Squeeze lime slices as you desire
Sprinkle coriander leaves

Thin rice noodle with fish soup (Rakhine Mone Ti)

2012-08-09T23:17:00.000-07:00

I. Soup Base

Ingredients

- 1 kg yellow pike-conger Fish

- 2 pieces of ginger (1.5 inches for each)

- 3 tablespoons shrimp paste

- 15 garlic cloves

- 3/4 tablespoon black pepper

- 2.5 inches of galangal

- Salt and chicken stock to taste.

How to do

Boil fish with ginger (1 piece) till it is cooked.

Debone the fish and squeeze out the water by mashing.

Take only water and set aside fish (it will be used for fish garnish)

Strain the liquid in which fish has been boiled.

Add shrimp paste into liquid and boil until it smells good.

After that, cool until solids settle.

Then, Take only the clear liquid.

Add some more water as you desired into the clear liquid.

Add blended of ginger, garlic cloves and pepper.

Add roughly pounded galangal.

Bring a boil

Add Salt and chicken stock to taste

II. Thin Rice Noodle

Ingredient

- 1 kg thin rice noodle

How to do?

- Soak noodle in water for 15 min

- After that, boil it until it is soften.

- Drain water and cool it with a splash of cold water.

- Set aside for soup

III. Side Dishes

1. 1 onion (sliced)

a. Fried or fresh onion slices

2. 1 lime (sliced) or tamarind juice

3. A cup of coriander leaves

4. Fish garnish

a. Add ½ teaspoon oil and ½ teaspoon turmeric powder into a fish that was set aside.

b. Cook over low heat and stir until grainy.

5. 10 green chillies or 10 red dry chillies

a. Blend the chillies

b. For green chillies, cook them with fish

c. For red dried chillies, sauté them.

6. Roasted pork fat (optional)

7. Sliced fish cake (optional)

8. Crispy pea fritter (optional)

How to serve?

1. Place noodle into a bowl

2. Pour soup base.

3. Add onion, coriander leave, chillies

4. Add sliced fish cake or roasted pork fat or fritter (If you wish)

5. Adjust the taste with lime or tamarind juice and salt.

Baked Saba Fish Salad

2012-08-02T20:10:00.000-07:00

Ingredient

1 Saba fish

9 to 10 green chillies

1 shallot

2 inches of ginger

1 lemon

A cup of coriander leaves

Salt and chicken stock

How to do?

Wash the fish and bake it directly on oven rack.

Wait until it is cooked well.

Remove the baked fish from oven

Skin and debone the baked fish.

Pound green chillies, shallot and ginger into a coarse paste.

Add fish and chillies paste into a bowl.

Add lemon juice by squeezing the slices.

Mix well.

Add salt and chicken to taste.

Sprinkle over coriander leaves.

Baked saba fish salad is ready. J

Banana Stem

2012-07-26T21:40:00.000-07:00

Ingredient

1 banana stem

5 to 6 green chillies (Sliced)

1 teaspoon shrimp paste

1 tablespoon peanut oil

2 tablespoon of dried shrimp powder

salt and chicken stock to taste

How to do?

Clean the stem and remove outer layer.

Clean the fiber of the stem and Chop into serving pieces.

Put the stem pieces into a pot.

Add sliced green chillies, dried shrimp powder and shrimp paste

Add peanut oil and Pour water to cover all stem pieces.

Cook it over medium heat.

Bring to a boil

Add salt and chicken stock.

Wait until most of water has been absorbed.

Small Potatoes with shrimp paste (Ar Lu Chay)

2012-07-19T21:04:00.000-07:00

Ingredients

½ kg small potatoes

8 green chillies (sliced)

1 tablespoon shrimp paste

A lump of tamarind (soak in water)

Salt and chicken stock to taste

How to do?

1. Cut small potatoes in half

2. After they are washed, put them into a saucepan.

3. Add chillies and shrimp paste

4. Pour 2 cup of water

5. Cook over a medium heat.

6. When it starts to boil, add salt and chicken stock.

7. When potatoes are cooked well, add the tamarind juice by squeezing the soaked tamarind.

8. Try the taste.

9. Wait till most of water has been absorbed

FYI ***

Most of rakhine people use Red Small Potatoes for this recipe.

Green chilies with fish (Nga Route Thee Cha)

2012-07-12T20:20:00.000-07:00

Ingredients

- 9 to 10 long green hatch chilies

- 10 small green chilies

- 50 g Fish (yellow pike-conger fish or Ray fish)

- 1 and ½ tablespoon shrimp paste

- A lump of tamarind (soak in water)

- Salt and chicken to taste

How to do?

- Boil all chilies until softened.

- Drain water and pound the boiled chillies to a coarse paste

- Boil fish until it is cooked.

- Debone the fish

- Put chilies paste and fish into a saucepan.

- Add shrimp paste, salt and chicken stock.

- Pour 2 cups of water

- Cook it over a medium heat

- When it starts to boil, add the tamarind juice by squeezing.

- Try to taste.

Is it spicy? J