Lamb Saawala

By Jinnykimkitchen

Prepare time; 30 minutes

Cooking time; about 7 hours

Ingredients;

1kg lamb, trimmed of fat

5 tbsp ghee (seperate into 4 + 1 tbsp)

6 dried red chilies of fresh red chilli

6 cloves

2 one inch stick of cinnamon

10 green cardamom pods

1 cup spring (fresh) coriander chopped

2 tbsp coriander powder

3 tbsp cumin seeds

2 large brown onion, diced

2 tbsp fresh ginger finely chopped

2 tbsp fresh garlic finely chopped

2 tbsp fresh turmeric finely chopped

1 tbsp turmeric powder

2 cups diced tomatoes

2 tbsp cumin powder

2 tbsp fenugreek seeds

1 tbsp garam masala powder

1 cup greek yogurt for serve

salt and pepper for taste

Instructions;

  1. In the wok heat 4 table spoon ghee, brown lamb and transfer to slow cooker.
  2. In the same wok used to brown lamb, add red chilies, cinnamon, cardamom pods, cloves, and cumin seeds; sauté until fragrant aroma. And add brown onion and sauté until golden brown; add ginger, garlic and turmeric then continue to sauté until raw smell goes aways.
  3. Add tomatoes simmer till tomatoes soft, add spinach and spring coriander, mix together and turn off the heat lets cool down for 10 minutes.
  4. Heat 1 tbsp ghee add cumin, fenugreek and gram masala powder stir for two minutes turn off the heat.
  5. Transfer sauce and fried spices into blender and blend until smooth. (Caution: Might stain your blender!)
  6. Transfer sauce into slow cooker use low heat for 6 hours.
  7. Before serving transfer Lamb Saawala into pot and place on stove on low/medium heat to heat it up add yogurt and stir together. Serve with home made herbs bread, home made dinner buns and rice.

Lamb Saawala by Jinnykimkitchen

Tum Khanom Jeen

Vermicelli Spicy Salad

In Thailand we like to eat spicy. When you walk on the street or restaurant you will see Sum Tum in the menu. Vermicelli in Thai is Khanom Jeen or khoa poon depend on which past of Thailand.

Tum Khanom Jeen not much ingredients you need and easy to make.

Ingredients

1 small carrot shards

3-4 cherry tomatoes Cut in half

1 1/2 table spoon lime juice

2 table spoon fish fermented or fish sauce

1 tea spoon sugar

150 g vermicelli

2 garlic cloves

Fresh red hot chilli depend on how much spicy you need

If you want more ingredients you can also add Cabbage picker, Thai eggplant, pork

balls or chicken balls in.

Instructions

Sum tum and Tum khanom Jeen important equipments you need is Pastors and Mortar. Add chilli and garlic into the pastor and proud thoroughly. Then add fish fermented, lime juice, sugar, carrot and tomatoes and then mixing ingredients together. Lasting add khanom jeen ( vermicelli ) mix gently in the mortar ready to serve

Prawn & Wings bean salad

Yum Thawphu

Another Thai dish that most people don’t know. Yum Thawphu ( Prawn and Wings bean salad) entee dish or even sometime we eat Yum Thawphu as a side dish when we drink Beer or Vodka. One of my favourite dish for diet as well.

Ingredients

250 g Wings bean ( stream and thinly slice)

10 King Prawn cooked

1 table spoon spring coriander chopped

1 1/2 table spoon lime juice

1 1/2 Thai red chilli sliced

1 table spoon sugar

1 table spoon fish sauce

1 table spoon Tumyum paste

1 table spoon fried garlic

1 table spoon fried shallots

Instructions

In a mixing bowl add fish sauce,sugar,lime juice, Thai red chilli and tumyum paste and mix all well together than add prawns, wing bean and coriander and mix with sauce and then add fried garlic and fried shallots ready to serve