Thai Sweet and Sour Vegetables
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012 08:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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weekly_food_challengeToday I followed a recipe.
Ingredients:
1 can water chestnuts, drained
4 Spring onions, roughly chopped
1 onion, roughly chopped
1 tomato, eighthed
250g Mange tout
1 cucumber, halved deseeded and diagonally sliced 5mm thick
3 cloves of garlic, chopped
Groundnut oil
4 tablespoons vegetable stock
1 tablespoon rice vinegar
1 tablespoon Thai Fish Sauce or Soy Sauce
5g sugar
What you're supposed to do:
Heat the oil in the pan, add the garlic and fry until golden brown.
Add all the ingredients except the spring onions and fry for 2-3 minutes turning continuously.
Add the spring onions and fry for 30 seconds.
Serves 4
What I actually did:
Decide there wasn't any protein, so buy some prawns.
Forget to buy the onions, and rushing out at 8pm to get them, decide not to bother with the ordinary onion.
Heat the oil in the pan, add the garlic and fry until golden brown.
Boil some noodles with a stock cube and use this instead of vegetable stock.
Add all the ingredients, replacing "a tablespoon" with "a slosh" and "4 tablespoons" with "probably too much but I don't care".
Decide not to bother with the extra onions at the end.
Realise you've forgotten to add the water chestnuts until after you've served.
Stir fry these for about a minute in the rest of the stuff you haven't served.
Serves 2.
Verdict:
Needs more garlic and more vinegar. Goes quite nicely with DBC's "Chesil", a "straw-blonde Pilsner-style real ale".
ETA:
5: Discover cucumbers don't count for this week's challenge, cry.
Ingredients:
1 can water chestnuts, drained
4 Spring onions, roughly chopped
1 onion, roughly chopped
1 tomato, eighthed
250g Mange tout
1 cucumber, halved deseeded and diagonally sliced 5mm thick
3 cloves of garlic, chopped
Groundnut oil
4 tablespoons vegetable stock
1 tablespoon rice vinegar
1 tablespoon Thai Fish Sauce or Soy Sauce
5g sugar
What you're supposed to do:
Heat the oil in the pan, add the garlic and fry until golden brown.
Add all the ingredients except the spring onions and fry for 2-3 minutes turning continuously.
Add the spring onions and fry for 30 seconds.
Serves 4
What I actually did:
Decide there wasn't any protein, so buy some prawns.
Forget to buy the onions, and rushing out at 8pm to get them, decide not to bother with the ordinary onion.
Heat the oil in the pan, add the garlic and fry until golden brown.
Boil some noodles with a stock cube and use this instead of vegetable stock.
Add all the ingredients, replacing "a tablespoon" with "a slosh" and "4 tablespoons" with "probably too much but I don't care".
Decide not to bother with the extra onions at the end.
Realise you've forgotten to add the water chestnuts until after you've served.
Stir fry these for about a minute in the rest of the stuff you haven't served.
Serves 2.
Verdict:
Needs more garlic and more vinegar. Goes quite nicely with DBC's "Chesil", a "straw-blonde Pilsner-style real ale".
ETA:
5: Discover cucumbers don't count for this week's challenge, cry.
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Date: Wednesday, March 14th, 2012 09:40 pm (UTC)I also had to google for mange tout since I've never heard the phrase - so you did the service of teaching an Uhmerican a new one ;)
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Date: Wednesday, March 14th, 2012 10:44 pm (UTC)* hug *
I hereby declare that cucmbers are an honourary Squash.
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Date: Wednesday, March 14th, 2012 10:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Wednesday, March 14th, 2012 11:16 pm (UTC)