FOODPORN - 56 - Tom Yum Gung Pasta

Hello everyone. It has been a while since I write something down here. Well, I have been quite busy with things on hand. However! Do not worry! I still maintain my cooking and trying out some new things once in a while! I still have a stockpile of foodies to post here. Just keep it post! 

So, today's menu is my original dish. This is not my first fusion dish between pasta and Thai, but I think that this one came out to be the most delicious of all. You might have seen similar stuffs elsewhere, but what I have right here is my original recipe. 

皆さんこんばんは！最近私はあんまり新しいものアップしてないですが、実はかなり作っています！
時間があまりなくてブログ更新もできなくなります。本当に申し訳ないです。

でも！たくさんアップしていない料理が山ほどありますので、ぜひぜひ見てくださいね！

今回は私初めて作って今まで一番美味しいフュージョン料理です！食材は本当にカルディーKALDIで買えるので、安心してください！（ライム葉も最近カルディーに輸入されてるみたいです！）

Tom Yum Gung Pasta!!!!!

Main ingredients:
Shrimp
Pasta
Tom Yum Gung paste (you can use any brand you want to)
Button Mushroom
Milk
Chili 
Lime leaves 
Nam Prik Pao (sweet shrimp paste)
Sugar 
Fish sauce
Lemon 

Here is the look of all the ingredients I use. In the picture is Black Tiger Shrimp

Some dry Chili and lime leaves

Chopping up all the ingredients and ready to rock'n roll! 

The basic steps for the pasta base are as follow. 

1.  Heat up the pan and saute the Tomyumgung paste first
2. Add milk around 60ml of it. Try add little by little. Just let it soak over your pan. You can still continue to add in some more later
1. At this point you can start to boil your pasta noodle
3. Add mushroom, lime leaves, and chili
4. Cook the mushroom for a few minutes
5. Add shrimp
6. Add sweet shrimp paste (nam prik pao)
7. Spice your soup with Sugar, fish sauce and lemon. 
1. The careful point here is that the spiciness and sourness of this dish is depending on how much you add lemon. Just choose the sourness level that you like by tasting the soup little by little. 
2. Try to use low heat at this point because you might burn through the soup too quick
8. Stir the soup in medium heat and let it simmer a little bit.

Add pasta then BAAAAMMM!!! 

I hope you like this dish because I LOVE IT SO MUCH!

FOOD PORN 39 Avocado Carbonara

This was a really random dish of the week. I found a half price meat and I just went... Hmmmm lets cook this! so HERE it IS!

これはですねー　全然様子見ないで作りました。ただ肉が半額だったので！　カルボナラーです！

FOOD PORN 37 -Salmon Pasta

Because I want to try something new and I really want to eat Pasta and Avocado!!!
SOOOO!!! I made this new pasta with pesto sauce!

これは新しいパスタのレジピです！　内容は後でします！とりあえず！バジルソースとアボカドと生サーモンと野菜！美味しさは最高！！！！！

FOOD PORN 34 -Beef pasta-

I will update later!!! More details coming! 後でアップデートします！とりあえず、写真！

FOOD PORN - 33 - Beef Goulash Pasta

PASTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Ok, I have wanted to make something like beef sauce pasta for a while now. It was just yesterday that I actually have an urge to do it. Why? Because it consume so much time in cooking and also so much spice goes into it. Without those spices, this beef sauce pasta will not be good at all. Really.

So what I created yesterday was a type of Beef stew call,

Beef Goulash Pasta ビーフグーラッシュパスタ

I do not have all the spice required to make it, so this is just what I actually used.

Fresh pasta

Vegetable Oil

Beef block that is already cut, you buy it and cut yourselves

Onions 2 ea

Olive oil

Salt

Bay Leaf (just 1 is enough

Stock! You can use Beef or Chicken Stock for this one. I used a beef stock cube 2ea for it

Tomato paste

Garlic

Sugar

Balsamic vinegar

*Main Spice*

Caraway seeds, you can ground it

Paprika powder (I used smoked Paprika powder)

Black pepper

Cayenne

Dried thyme leaves

Looks like a lot.. right??? The process of this thing is rather easy but the preparation is painful. That is why I do not do it until now. I decided to just.. shop for once!

Start with preparing garlic and onions, chop them out. Then prepare your meat. My meat is already cut and spice, so meh.  If your meat is not spice, add in some salt and black pepper before cooking.

Set up your pan with normal oil. Then cook the beef first, make sure that it is cooked. (it will taste better when you put in the stock).

After finishing it, put the beef in the pot, normal cooking pot is fine.

Here is the thing about this dish, do not wash the pan, ever. We will be using the same pan, over and over again because the smell of the meat and everything is in it.

Cook the onions and add in olive oil in the same pan until it looks almost cooked (the mid is still white but surrounding looks a bit brown or transparent) The color should be brown from the beef previously.

Put those onions in the same pot with the beef. Do not worry about the oils, just dump them in.

Lastly! In the same pan, toast these spice on it, careful of the heat though. Do not make it too cooked or burn it.

Caraway seeds, ground it

Paprika powder

Black pepper

Cayenne

Dried thyme leaves

Mix them all in the pan until it looks pretty good, or smell good.

Then add in the beef stock to the spice, this way, all the beef, onions, and spices will mix together. The color will appear a bit red from paprika powder, that is a right one.

Add the stock into the beef pot then start the heat. You are now done with the pan.

Next, in the pot, add in tomato paste/sauce (I do not have paste, so I used sauce), garlic, Bay Leaf, Salt and the rest of the stock if you still have some left.

Start heating the pot with strong heat until the stock is start boiling. Then lower it down to low heat. Wait for around 1.5 hours to 2 hours.

Check it time to time for the soup. The complete version should have some soup left in it. If the water got too low, it will burn your pot, be careful (I almost burnt my pot) Add in some water if needed.

Lastly! Just prepare the pasta! I use fresh pasta （生パスタ） because.. I LIKE IT!!!!

After the pasta, put in the sauce on top

DONE!

Took me forever to do this but the result is unbelievably delicious. You will know how great it is when you can smell the pot from far far far away.

If you are hungry after reading this post, EAT SOMETHING!