Potsticker Sauce

We had some pan fried potstickers with our Thai food tonight. I bought the potstickers raw from the grocery store and they were delicious. All I had to do was pan fry them. I also had to make some potsticker sauce to dip them in.

Potsticker Sauce

4T soy sauce
1 t sesame oil
1 T rice vinegar
1 t fresh finely chopped ginger
a few leaves of fresh finely chopped cilantro

Chiang Mai Curry Noodles

I am a big fan of the Thai curries. I found this recipe in the book Quick and Easy Thai. I modified the recipe to use tofu but you could use chicken instead.

Chiang Mai Curry Noodles
Kao Soi

1 T chopped garlic
2 T red curry paste
Tofu, cut up and fried

2 c unsweetened coconut milk
1 3/4 cup chicken broth
2 t ground turmeric
2 T soy sauce
1 t sugar
1 t salt
2 T freshly squeezed lime juice
1 pound egg noodles or spaghetti, cooked
1/3 cup chopped shallots
1/3 cup chopped cilantro
1/3 cup sliced green onions

Heat up a sauce pan over medium high heat. Add oil and saute garlic. Add the curry paste and stir for about a minute. Add the tofu, coconut milk, chicken broth, turmeric, soy sauce, sugar and salt and stir well Bring to a gentle boil and adjust heat to maintain a lively simmer. Cook 10 minutes. Stir in lime juice and remove from heat.

Divide the noodles into individual serving bowls. Ladle on the hot curry and sprinkle each serving with shallots, cilantro and green onions.
I made some garlic chili sauce today from the chiles that I grew. It turns out significantly hotter than the store bought brand!

I added a few drops of it to the curry but it made it extremely hot. My naughty wife suggested that I slip a piece of the tofu from the curry to the dog. Poor Daisy. She went and hid under the chair for a while.

Pad Se Eu

I have posted before about an excellent Thai food place in Chicago called Penny's Noodle Shop. One of my wife's favorite dishes there is Pad Se Eu. Penny's menu describes it as follows:

Wide rice noodles stir fried in a lightly sweetened soy sauce with egg, broccoli and your choice of chicken,
beef or tofu ...... $6.40

I looked through my cookbooks and finally found a good recipe in the book Real Thai.
I have modified the recipe a little to our tastes.

Pad Se Eu
Kwaytiow Paht Si-Yu

2 T soy sauce with 2 T brown sugar mixed in
1 T black bean sauce
salt and pepper to taste
1 T red curry paste
1 T chopped garlic
About 3 cups broccoli
1/2 pound chicken, very thinly sliced
flat rice noodles (we ended up using fresh fettuccine noodles)
2 eggs

Heat a wok over medium high heat. Add a little oil. Saute the garlic briefly and then add the broccoli. When the broccoli is just starting to soften remove it to a plate. Next stir fry the chicken and remove to the plate. Scramble the eggs and remove to the plate. Finally add the noodles to the wok and dump in all the rest of the ingredients. Stir fry until heated through.