Hello everyone,
My wife and I had this stupid idea, a while ago... we wanted to do to each other some kind of cooking challenge... We had to cook, once a week, turn by turn, a full meal with entry, main course and dessert from a country designed by the other one, with the constraint to cook something we never cooked before on top of that... Great idea, right? It was such a great idea that it lasted 2 weeks aka 2 meals only and since I suggested the thing, I offered to go first and She asked me for a Thai meal... When I suggested the idea, I had to admit I did not think about the feasibility of the whole thing... Big mistake.
Finding Thai dishes that I may cook... easy enough. Finding the ingredient to cook them in the area I am living in... much harder... We don't really understand how lucky we are in France on that account. Wanna cook Lebanese food? No problem; Japanese food? Easy. Sure the taste is not even remotely close to what it is in Lebanon or Japan or any other far away countries but still... at least we have the possibility to try and to use ingredients that are not locally grown, it probably is the best thing we got from globalization. While here, can't find anything but Indonesian stuff and therefore I need to improvise and modify the recipes to fit what I may have access to... My parent would say that it is somewhat similar to what it used to be in France... 40-50 years ago... time I can't remember as I wasn't even born... So, in some ways, living in the Indonesian countryside, is like riding a time machine when you are from Europe... but with coconut trees.
In the end I manage to find out some recipes that were possible to cook without changing every single ingredient: I cooked some Thai chicken roulades which were very good and also very costly for the amount of food that we ended up eating (I might add the recipe someday tho as they were very good), some khao niao mamouang (mango sticky rice) for dessert which was a complete disaster... I knew that I would probably screw this one up as the coconut milk in Indonesia is clearly not as good as the one you can find in Europe and apparently, it is not possible to find sticky rice where I live... Sometimes I wonder why I agreed to move there... but here I am... Anyway, the main course of the meal was today's recipe which we did quite a few times since then.
A sweet and salty beef in pepper sauce that will wake up your palace.
4 people
500 g beef fillet
3 tablespoons soy Sauce
1 teaspoon yeast
1 tablespoon chopped garlic
3 tablespoon vegetable oil
3 tablespoon oyster sauce
1/2 teaspoon sugar
1/4 teaspoon pepper
4 Spring onions
500 g mushroom (optional)
oil
Idea:
I might add some beansprouts next time I try.
Enjoy!
Finding Thai dishes that I may cook... easy enough. Finding the ingredient to cook them in the area I am living in... much harder... We don't really understand how lucky we are in France on that account. Wanna cook Lebanese food? No problem; Japanese food? Easy. Sure the taste is not even remotely close to what it is in Lebanon or Japan or any other far away countries but still... at least we have the possibility to try and to use ingredients that are not locally grown, it probably is the best thing we got from globalization. While here, can't find anything but Indonesian stuff and therefore I need to improvise and modify the recipes to fit what I may have access to... My parent would say that it is somewhat similar to what it used to be in France... 40-50 years ago... time I can't remember as I wasn't even born... So, in some ways, living in the Indonesian countryside, is like riding a time machine when you are from Europe... but with coconut trees.
In the end I manage to find out some recipes that were possible to cook without changing every single ingredient: I cooked some Thai chicken roulades which were very good and also very costly for the amount of food that we ended up eating (I might add the recipe someday tho as they were very good), some khao niao mamouang (mango sticky rice) for dessert which was a complete disaster... I knew that I would probably screw this one up as the coconut milk in Indonesia is clearly not as good as the one you can find in Europe and apparently, it is not possible to find sticky rice where I live... Sometimes I wonder why I agreed to move there... but here I am... Anyway, the main course of the meal was today's recipe which we did quite a few times since then.
| Preparation: 10 mn | Cooking: 10 mn | Total time: 50 mn | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marinade: 30 mn | Difficulty: Easy |
A sweet and salty beef in pepper sauce that will wake up your palace.
Ingredients:
4 people500 g beef fillet
3 tablespoons soy Sauce
1 teaspoon yeast
1 tablespoon chopped garlic
3 tablespoon vegetable oil
3 tablespoon oyster sauce
1/2 teaspoon sugar
1/4 teaspoon pepper
4 Spring onions
500 g mushroom (optional)
oil
Preparation:
- Cut the beef fillet into thin slices and marinate them in the soy sauce with the yeast for 30 min.
- In a wok, brown the chopped garlic in the oil, so that the ingredients release their aromas.
- Add the beef and stir fry it until it is evenly cooked.
- Add the oyster sauce, sugar and pepper.
- Chop the spring onions into 5 cm long pieces
- Add everything to the wok. Continue to stir for another 3 or 4 minutes. Add water if necessary to lengthen the sauce.
- Serve immediately
Idea:
I might add some beansprouts next time I try.
Enjoy!
Antoine
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