Wrapped Banana

MYANMAR FOOD WRAPPED BANANAS (KYAUKNYINTOK) Ingredients 1 ½ cups raw glutinous rice 1 large or 1 ½ pounds grated coconut 2 tablespoons sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt 15 banana leaves. about 6 square inch each 4-8 ripe bananas 2 tablespoons sesame seeds How to cook Wash and soak glutinous rice in water overnight. Continue on following […]

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Vegetable Curry

Ingredients 2 medium potatoes 1/2 cup diced salt fish 3/4 cup diced green beans 2 teaspoons dried garlic chips 3/4 cup sprigged cauliflower 1 ½ cups onion. chopped finely 1 medium eggplant Large pinch turmeric 3/4 cup cut okra 1/2 cup oil 3 medium tomatoes. fairly green 1 teaspoon ginger powder 2 green chilies 1 […]

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Tomato Shrimp Paste Dip

Ingredients 1/2 cup chopped onion 1 to 2 teaspoons chili powder 2 teaspoons minced garlic Large pinch turmeric 3/4 cup chopped tomatoes 4 green chilies 2 teaspoons or less shrimp paste Salt to taste 1/3 cup oil 1 small bunch coriander leaves How to cook Chop onion and garlic finely. Skin and chop tomatoes. Soak […]

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Tomato Salad

Ingredients Five tomatoes – washed ¼ cup – sliced garlic 1 cup – sliced onions ½ tsp – salt ½ cup – shrimp sauce 1½ tbsp – sesame seeds. roasted ½ cup – crushed pea nuts. roasted 2 cups – water 1 cup – oil – for frying garlic and some onions How to prepare […]

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String beans Salad

Ingredients 30 – stringbeans – washed ¼ cup – sliced garlic ½ cup – sliced onions ½ tsp – salt ½ cup – shrimp sauce 1½ tbsp – sesame seeds. roasted ½ cup – crushed pea nuts. roasted 5 cups – water 1 cup – oil – for frying garlic and some onions How to […]

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Stir-Cooked Sheet Fish

As is natural each fish best produces when it is cooked in a certain way. or fora certain dish. Ngakhu and Ngagyi are best to make fish soup for mohinga. Likewise ngabat is best for stir-cooking. Ingredients 800g ngabat 240g oil 1 teaspoon Chili powder 1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder 1.5 cm ginger to be pounded […]

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Steamed Rice

Steamed Glutinous Rice is well-known as Kauk Hnyin Paung in Myanmar. The seventh lunar month of Thadingyut (October) is a month of many events. It is the time when the South-West monsoon started to say good-bye to our country after delivering precious pearly showers of rain to our 22 million acres of land under cultivation […]

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Special Thingyan meal

This special menu is from the Mon State. and is served only during the period of “Thingyan.” the Myanmar Water Festival that ushers in the Myanmar New Year. It consists of specially prepared rice. crisply fried shreds of dried fish with a generous sprinkling of fried onions and a salad of green mangoes. The Mon […]

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Silver Rice

Sticky rice is not generally eaten as the main component of a complete meal with curry dishes and a soup . In the highlands one may be served rice which is sticky. But this is not the sticky rice of the plains. It is rice which happens to contain a higher percentage of gluten than […]

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Shwe Kyi Pudding

Ingredients ½ lb shwe kyi ½ lb sugar 3 eggs 1 coconut ¼ lb margarine Directions Scrape the coconut & extract the milk with one cup of hot water. Beat up the eggs and mix all ingredients together. Cook till it thickest. When cooked. place in a dish and bake till brown.

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