Crisp Shrimp Relish

Ingredients 2 cups dried shrimps 1 ½ teaspoons shrimp paste 2 medium onions 1 cup oil 10 garlic cloves 1/4 teaspoon turmeric 1 teaspoon tamarind paste 1 teaspoon or more chili powder   How to cook Wash the dried shrimps. drain. and let dry while doing the following: Slice onion finely; slice garlic fairly thick. […]

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Crisp Saltfish Relish

Ingredients 4 ounces saltfish Large pinch turmeric 1 onion 1 teaspoon (or less) coarse 8 cloves garlic Some chili powder 1/2 cup oil   How to cook Wash fish well. Cut in fine. even. small slices. 1/2 to 3/4 inches by 1/8 inch thick. Cut onions and garlic evenly. Heat oil in a wok. add […]

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Crisp Fluffy Relish

Ingredients 4 ounces saltfish (ngayan) 8 cloves garlic 1/2 teaspoon turmeric 1/2 cup oil 1 onion   How to cook Wash fish and boil in water to cover. with turmeric. till tender. Flake meat off fish. Put into mortar and pound. extracting small bones. till flesh is well shredded. yielding about 1 1/2 cups for […]

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Coconut Rice

Ingredients   1 large or 1 ½ pounds grated 1 tablespoon salt 1 fresh coconut 1/2 teaspoon turmeric 4 cups raw rice 3 cloves 2 tablespoons oil 1 stick cinnamon 4 medium onions 3 or 4 bay leaves   How to cook Grate coconut and extract milk in this way: put in fine cloth. knead. […]

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Chinese Style Fried Rice

Housewives tend to put many ingredients into fried rice. but the result is not always as tasty as that which a good restaurant with an eye to economy and greater skill can serve. Try this for minimum ingredients:   Ingredients 7 to 8 cups cooked. cold rice 6 large Chinese sausages 1 tablespoon (or to […]

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Chicken Curry Myanmar Style

The followings are the ingredients to cook chicken curry in Myanmar Style. Ingredients 2 lbs chicken cut into pieces & marinated 1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder 1-1/4 teaspoon chili powder 1″ ginger pounded 1 teaspoon garlic pounded 3 teaspoon onion pounded 2 stalks lemon glass sliced thinly and pounded 2 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoon oil 2 […]

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Chicken coconut curry

The coconut is a versatile fruit for the cook in the kitchen. The fibrous outer shell may be used as a scrubber to scour pots and pans. or to provide a quick-burning high heat fuel. The tough inner shell can be used as a mug or fit a handle and it becomes a ladle. It […]

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Butter Rice

Ingredients Rice Butter Sugar Dried Grapes Cashew nut Cinnamon Bay Leaves Some Salt Sesame seeds 163 grams Flour 1 tea spoon Steps to cook Myanmar people like to cook rice together with coconut or butter. First. pour some butter into the pan and heat. Then fried some leaves and sesame. When it’s smell is good. […]

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Brainy Sweet

An enjoyable breakfast for some people is goat brain with nan roti ( Indian bread). Some people pick out the head of the foul in a chicken dish to get at the brain. A popular sweet for Myanmar people is Moun Oun Hnauk ( brain cake). The odd thing about it is that it contains […]

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Beef Curry

Ingredients 2 1/2 pounds of beef 1 ½ tablespoons of fish sauce 1/3 teaspoon of turmeric 1 tablespoon of vinegar 3 teaspoons of dried garlic chips 1 ½ cups onions. to be chopped finely 1 teaspoon of chili powder 2 teaspoons of ginger powder 3/4 cup oil (less if beef is fatty) 2 teaspoons salt […]

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