Myanmar Food
Rakhine Mone-Ti
Rakhine nationals on the Bay of Bengal coast have
a special way of making mohinga, the national dish.
It is cooked different, served different, tastes
different and is consumed different. It is worthy of
its different name, Rakhine mone-ti. It may be
enjoyed as a mixed salad accompanied by a soup or as
noodles in clear fish soup.
Ingredients
- Thin rice noodles 1. 6 kg
- Pike Conger Fish 400 gm (nga-shwe)
- oil 320 gm
- Turmeric a dash ginger 2. 5 cm
- garlic sliced 320 gm
- onion sliced 320 gm
- greater galangal 80 gm (pade-gaw)
- shrimp paste 3 tsp
- pepper 1/2 tsp
- chili powder 2 tbs
- tamarind 80 gm
- salt to taste
- coriander leaves 160 g
- Water to make 15 cups
How to cook
Boil fish till tender together with ginger and
salt in water to just cover the fish. Debone the
fish and slightly squeeze out the water when mashing
it with the turmeric, and roast on slow fire in one
tablespoon of oil till the fish becomes grainy. This
is the fish garnish.
Strain the liquid in which the fish has been
boiled, add shrimp paste and boil for 40'. Cool and
let the solids settle. Take only the clear liquid.
Place the roughly ground galangal together with 160
g of crushed garlic in a muslin bag in the liquid,
add the pepper and boil 30' filling up with water to
get 15 cups of liquid. This is the clear soup to
serve ten persons.
Fry the remaining 160 g of sliced garlic in oil
and remove the garlic into a dish adding 4 tbs of
the cooked oil. This is the garlic garnish.
Fry the onion in the remaining oil till golden.
Strain into another dish. This is the onion garnish.
Make paste of chili powder in 2 tbs of water and
cook in the frying oil till the water evaporates.
This is the chili sauce. Dissolve the tamarind in
warm water to form a thick sauce.
How to serve
Take noodles. Add roasted fish, tamarind sauce,
chili sauce, fried garlic in oil, fried onions and
coriander leaves and mix thoroughly. Serve soup in a
separate bowl. Alternately put all the above
ingredients in a bowl and pour the soup into the
bowl. This is served as Rakhine mone-ti.
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