Friday 12 June 2009

mohinga (burmese fish soup)




when I was in yangon for several month, I love to eat mohinga for breakfast... I know this resipe. from my maid at that time.she's introduce this one for me and I love it.

ingredients:
30 tical tasty fish ground ginger,grated
3 strips lemon grass ground rice, parched
fish sauce oil
dried chili powder tumeric
chick peas
garlic
10 piece shaloot.



METHOD:
1. boil the fish,lemon grass and fish sauce. add some tumeric and salt to the saucepan.when the fish is soft, remove from the soup and skin it. retain the soup.put the fish bones in a blender and mix with water.strain out the bones and add this liquid to the firt boiled fish soup.boil the gram with water and strain.(use the liquid as a gram soup)

2. heat the pan and fry the garlic,ginger, and skinned fish.then put in the medium sizes saucepan with previously boiled fish soupand gram soup.add ground rice (parched) and some water.then add some shallot. in addition, if you like, add some bananas stem (wash and cut thinly).bring to the boil.season with pepper to taste.

3. when shallot are becoming soft and the fish soup is boiling, it ready to serve. add dried chili powder to colour soup. fry some garlic ,whle frying add a pinch of tumeric. the garlic should become a golden colour.

4. serve the fish soup with fried garlic, coriander leaf and spring onion,dried chilli powder and lime.It can also be served with duck eggs.

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