My wife now is into cooking, especially Thai food as she misses the authentic taste back home. We have been to a few local Thai restaurant, but still unable to get whatever she wants. Therefore the best way is to cook it yourself. You can check her cooking blog at http://cookwithammie.blogspot.com/.
So because of cooking, she and I have planted some herbs and vegetables as some if it is hard to comeby at our local market and whatmore, more cost efficient.
Here are some of the plants we have:
Chilli
Good ol' spicy chilli, a must in almost all Thai dishes. The hotter the better. They say if you want your chilli fruit to be more spicy, let the sun shine on it as much as you can. So far we have harvested quite a number of chilli from this plant. My wife use it to cook all kinds of dishes. But it yet to produce red ones for us, all of them are green, making hard to spot from the bunch of leafs.
Chilli
Good ol' spicy chilli, a must in almost all Thai dishes. The hotter the better. They say if you want your chilli fruit to be more spicy, let the sun shine on it as much as you can. So far we have harvested quite a number of chilli from this plant. My wife use it to cook all kinds of dishes. But it yet to produce red ones for us, all of them are green, making hard to spot from the bunch of leafs.
Hairy Basil / Hoary Basil - Ocimum americanum syn O. canum
This basil is normally serve fresh raw into thai dishes, such as 'ka nhon jeen' (thai laksa) and in some soup. It is good for breastfeeding mom as it will encourage milk production...
Kadok / Piper Sarmentosum
This is one of the ingredient they used in a Thai snack/appertizer called Miang Kum, which they use to wrap with other condiments. I personally have not tried it yet, but I think my wife is working on it soon...
Mint
Cooling and refreshing leafs, remind us of toothpaste and chewing gums. It is used on those spicy salads mixed with pork or beef or chicken. This is also one of the easiest plant to grow and they tend to take over your entire garden if not taking care of...
Rosemary - Rosmarinus officinalis
This is mine... one of the most common ingridient use in meat marination adding an extra taste to the dishes. A lot of people mistakenly think this plant cannot grow in our hot weather, but infact, they are afraid of cold. They can even withstand draught, so whatmore our M'sia weather.
Sawtooth Coriander / Thai Parsley or Thai Coriander
The leafs are like razor, hence the name. Very fragance and use in Tom Yam soup, a missing ingredient in our local tom yam soup. It is also mixed fresh in Thai spicy salads.
Basil
There are so many types of basil that I sometimes get confused. But this one is called Basil, where the leaves are bigger and has a glossy look. Use in fried food.....
Sweet Basil
This is the part I still not too sure how to call them, my wife said is Sweet Basil, but in the picture below there are three plants, two of it is the same with white flowers, and the other one with purple flowers. Both leafs looks the same to me, narrow and has a slight razor edge. Used for green curry...
Nothing beats home cooked food, and home grown herbs and vegetables...
1 comments:
Ammie said...
wrong info plz edit ya !!!