Shrimp Phad Thai

One handed cooking is off to a great start! This takes a long time to prep and cook with one hand so this might be easy for you two handers.   Best home prep cook out there!

Ingredients:

  • Shrimp
  • Pickled red onions and cucumber……Momofuku style
  • 1 1/2 tbsp. lobster base in 1/2 cup water
  • Macadamia nuts chopped in food processor…..gotta get back on the horse
  • Baby carrots, red bell pepper….julienne cut
  • Master sauce consisting of (I’m going to get rich off this one day…..that’s the percocet talking)…..Star anise, Mai ploy sweet chili sauce, crushed red pepper, almond butter, peanut sauce, rice vinegar, paprika, fish sauce, sugar, and a himalayan pink salt
  • Phad Thai noodles soaked in water for an hour
  • Green onions, oblique cut
  • Bean sprouts
  • 2 eggs
  • Canola oil

Procedure:

  1. Place a little bit of canola oil in wok then heat up
  2. Place bell peppers, carrots, and red onions in wok….cook for 1-2 minutes
  3. Place shrimp in cook for 1 minute
  4. Pour in master sauce, lobster base, and bean sprouts and cook for 1 minute
  5. Throw in drained noodles and cook until liquid is almost gone…continue carefully stirring
  6. Move noodles to the side then throw in eggs and fold noodles over…..toss in the cucumbers
  7. Serve with green onions over the top.
  8. Enjoy

Eric

Thai Coconut Shrimp Soup

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Do you like spicy food? Well then this is your lucky day! This one goes to 11.

Ingredients:

  • Red Chili Paste
  • Yellow Curry Paste
  • White wine
  • Sesame Oil
  • Red Chili Garlic Sauce
  • Chili oil
  • Sriracha Hot Sauce
  • Red Chili Flake
  • Japones peppers
  • 2 lbs. shrimp, deveined and peeled. Peels reserved
  • 1 yellow bell pepper, 1 inch dice
  • 1 red bell pepper, 1 inch dice
  • 1 onion, 1/2 inch dice
  • Lemongrass
  • Ginger, minced
  • Brown sugar
  • Coconut Milk
  • Cornstarch slurry
  • Chicken stock
  • Black lemon
  • Mushrooms
  • Tomatoes concasse
  • Green onions sliced 1/8 inch thick

Procedure

  1. In a large stock pot sweat the onions and bell peppers in butter
  2. Place the red chili paste and yellow curry paste in the stock pot and toast (pince)
  3. Deglaze with white wine
  4. Add chicken stock, black lemon, brown sugar, ginger, lemongrass, japones peppers, chili flake, shrimp peels, and a couple drops of sesame oil
  5. Simmer for and hour or two
  6. Drain the tomatoes, and mushrooms
  7. Strain the soup then replace soup back into stock pot
  8. Place tomatoes and mushrooms in soup
  9. Combine coconut milk and cornstarch slurry in a little bowl then slowly work into soup.
  10. Place shrimp in soup then serve after about 5-6 minutes with green onions as garnish.

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Enjoy,

Eric