Eclectic lunch of leftovers was yummy- breadmaker bread, hummus (made with sesame seeds for the first time, i've been using sesame oil), khmer salad (lots of herbs, cold noodle and some pork) chicken i fried in breadcrumbs with mayo.

Chicken soup

Chopping galangal 

Lime leaf, whole garlic cloves "smashed" , green bits of lemongrass, chopped galangal 

Added oyster sauce, sugar, salt, fish sauce

Chicken

Chicken

and in goes the chicken

chopping "saw herb" (tastes like coriander)

After its been boiling for awhile (when the chicken is cooked I guess) he added the finishing touches, the saw herb...

...and lime juice.

And then time to eat! We had the candles on the table in case the power went off, but we didn't need them for this meal.

the bits you don't eat!

Soup- 3 mushrooms and sa om

Cambodia Cooking Show

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ហហ្មុកសាច់មាន់

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Pork groeung

Today Soeun flavoured pork with a mix of spices called groeng, its usually used in stir fry. We usually use a mortar and pestle, but we don't have one here. Lemongrass, garlic, lime leaf, turmeric/lmit, galangal/romgdang

He put the lime leaf, sliced tumeric and galangal in some foil and put it over a flame, then into the little blender thingy. Still working out how to use it, the stuff didn't get as ground up as he would have liked.

Next in was chopped garlic and lemongrass.
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Then he added some salt, sugar, knorr etc and the pork to sit in it for awhile. Then fried it and ate with rice! Yum!

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Herbs

The saw herb plant we got from my parents (they got it from some Cambodians who live in Australia). I carried it back on the plane in May.

Chicken and ginger stirfy

I normally think of ginger as being used to flavour things, but in this Khmer stir fry its more of a veggie that you munch on. Also, I prefer pure meat, soft easy to eat, but Soeun prefers the way Khmer normally make it. I think they just chop the whole chicken up - bones and all.

minced pork

mix garlic, soy, sugar, salt, ginger, chives etc with mince pork and steam, or you could stir fry
nice with stir fried green leafy veg and rice
i got this idea from a singaporean in cambodia, so not sure what nationality food it is

Banana flower - the way L makes it

First we pounded garlic, sugar, salt and peanuts.
We sliced/grated the banana flower into a bowl of water, and washed the fresh herbs (basil, mint, a bitter one with a long leaf that we eat with roast chicken, and the one some call Vietnames herb).

After picking leaves off the herbs stalks we put them in a bowl with the drained banana flower and added the pounded stuff. Also chopped up boiled pork- including the skin and fat.

After mixing it up we added some lime juice.

I think after that all we did was mix and check the taste to see if we needed to add more salt or sugar.

She said you can also make it with cabbage, also other salad veggies like capsicum, carrot and cucumber. KS said if you make it with cucumber its too watery.

Papaya salad

These photos go with the previous post.