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  Fried Myanmar Bean Curd Fried Myanmar Bean Curd Preparation time             10min Cooking Time    20min Total Time         30min Ingredients Myanmar Bean curd 10pcs Onion (Medium)            5pcs (Slice) Tomato   (Medium)           3pcs (Slice) Oil         4Tbsp Salt        1/2Tsp MSG      1/2Tsp Spring Onion      2Tbsp (Cut in half inch) Frish Chilli         5pcs Garlic (Myanmar)           1 whole pcs Tumeric             Little Chilli Powder     1/2Tsp Instructions 1.         Put pan on stove and add oil. Add Onion and fried. When onion smell is come out, add tomato and fried until it paste. Add turmeric, chilli powder, salt and MSG and fried in a few minute. 2.         Add Myanmar bean curd and garlic and fried 2min. After 2min, finally add green chilli and spring onion. Mix all of ingredients and serve.    

  Burmese Djenkol Bean and Tealeaf Salad Djenkol bean is one of my favourite beans and especially djenkol bean salad is my favourite. Tealeaf salad is one of the most favourite foods in Myanmar and Myanmar is the one where tea is eaten as well as drunk. As a popular expression of  Myanmar (Burmese): Of all the fruit, the mango’s the best; of all the meat, the pork’s the best; and of all the leaves, tealeaf (lahpet)’s the best. Djenkol bean and tea leaf are the best combination food and all of Myanmar people love to eat it. This salad is sold at every street food shop and traditional food restaurants as a seasonal salad.   Cuisine : Myanmar(Burmese) Preparation Time : 10mins Cooking Time : 10mins Total Time : 20mins       Ingredients 5        Djenkol Bean Sour and Spicy fermented tea leaf    50g 1        Tomato 2        Chilies Vegetables Oil          2 Tbsp Salt              A little bit Dashi seaweed powder        ½ Tsp Dry shrimp     A little bit Roasted sesame seed A little bit Inst

  Pork Rib And Raddish Soup When I was young my father made this soup for us and this soup is a kind of easy, tasty soup. Pork rib and raddish soup is suitable for rainy season. Fried Myanmar Bean Curd is a food from upper Myanmar and mostly people eat it in original. But when we want to eat for a change, we fried bean curd and it give sweet, spicy and cloy taste. I hope everyone enjoy it.   Preparation time             5min Cooking Time    45min Total Time         50min Cuisine             Myanmar(Burmese) Ingredients Pork Rib             350g Pepper Seed       10pcs Salt        1 1/2Tsp MSG      ½ Tsp Chicken Powder             1 1/2Tsp Coriander Leave             2Tbsp (For garnish) Medium Raddish            4 (or) 5pcs Coriander root    3pcs Water     1 ½ L Instructions 1.         Wash pork ribs and place pork ribs in pot with water. Place a pot over stove and bring to boil. When it water is boil, remove water and wash pork rib second time. 2.         Add one and half Liter of wate

  Burmese Potato Chips Potato peels bubbling in pans of oil are a common sight on Yangon’s streets. Myanmar people (like myself) enjoy potato chips with fried rice and coffee for breakfast, or sometimes as an evening snack or with a tealeaf salad. And you won’t be surprised to hear that chips are easy to make. Here’s   my grandparents’   recipe. Ingredients 10 potatoes 100 millilitres of oil (palm, peanut or rice bran oil are traditionally used) A little Dashi powder A little salt Instructions Peel and slice the potatoes (not too thin or thick). Boil the water and put in the potato slices—the water should completely cover them. Remove them after three or four minutes. Each slice should look translucent. Mix the slices with salt and Dashi powder, and arrange them on a tray. Dry the slices in the sun. Store the dried potato chips in an air-tight container and when you want to eat them, fry them in a pan until they’re golden brown. Sprinkle on some chilli powder for spice and eat them qui

Beef Intestine And Tripe Soup Myanmar people eat beef intestine and tripe soup as a main dish and also eat as a snack. A lot of street food seller sell beef intestine and tripe soup and salad. Beef intestine and trip soup is most suitable for winter and rainy season. Preparation Time : 20min Cooking Time : 50min Total Time : 70min Cuisine : Myanmar (Burmese) Ingredients Beef Intestine and Tripe                  500 G Ginger   3-4 G Garlic    5 Glove Lemongrass     1 Onion    2 Pcs Turmeric          Little Chilli powder    Little Salt       Little Oil        Little    Dashi Powder   Little Water    1L Lime leave       3 Leaves Pepper            Little Green Chilli       3 Pcs Lime     1 Pcs Spring Onion    Little Coriander Leave         Little Instructions 1.      Minced lemongrass and put garlic, ginger, minced lemongrass in motor and made paste. Wash beef intestine and tripe with water and remove all --- 2.      Mix beef, turmeric, salt, chilli powder, dashi powder with ginger paste a

  Dry Bamboo Salad Ancient people dry raw food to remove moisture and another solvent, to inhibit microbial development and quality decay, and we can eat unseasonal food when we want. My grandparents dried a lot of vegetable like bamboo, potato, eggplant and cauliflower and when they want to eat blanch them and made salad, stir fry or curry. Preparation time 20min Cooking time     15min Total time           35min Cuisine             Myanmar (Burmese) Ingredients Dry bamboo       100g Potato (Big)        4pcs Garlic Oil           3Tbsp (Heat oil and add minced garlic and little of turmeric. When garlic is cooked, immediately remove from heat.) Dashi Powder     1/2Tsp Salt        1/2Tsp Instructions 1.         Boil dry bamboo and potato until soft and drain and squeeze bamboo to remove water from bamboo. Remove skin from potato and dice potato into small pieces. Cut boiled bamboo to ½ inch size. 2.         Put bamboo, potato, garlic oil, dashi powder and salt in a bowl and mix them. If y

  Steamed E gg Curry   This is a popular dish in my hometown of Ye-U and the surrounding countryside of Sagaing Region. I learned how to cook steamed egg curry by watching my mother, who often made it for us. Fortunately it’s easy to make and almost everybody loves steamed eggs, so get cooking. Preparation time: 1o min Cooking time: 10- 15 min Overall time: 20- 25 Cuisine: Myanmar (Burmese) Ingredients 5 eggs 3 whole onions 1 bulb Burmese garlic A thumb of ginger 4 tomatoes Fresh 3 chili peppers 2 dried chili 3 table spoons of fish sauce 3 tablespoons of chicken powder 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil Coriander A pinch of salt   Instructions 1.     Soak the dried chili in a bowl of water. Peel the ginger and garlic. In a large bowl, beat the eggs and chicken powder finely. 2.    Cook the egg mixture by double boiling it (submerging a pot within an outer pot of boiling water). 3.     When the egg is cooked, you will get a block of egg. Cut this block to cube sizes and set them aside. 4.  

  Bean Rice My hometown is Ye-U in Sagaing Division and most of people from there is farmers. So they grow rice, corn, bean and vegetable. So all of people from there love to eat beans. My grandparents and my mother always cook bean rice with different kinds of beans. This dish really easy to make and it delish if you eat with chicken curry, fried dried fish, mango salad, marian paste. So, let’s cook together…………………………………..   Ingredients Black Eyed Peas          50g Rice                         500g Water                       800g Instructions 1.      Boiled black eyed peas in a pot in 10 to 15 mins. Meanwhile, wash rice 2times and place in rice cooker. Add bean and water to rice cooker and cook until bean rice cooked. Fried Dried Fish Ingredients Dried Fish        200g Crushed Dried chilli      2Tbsp Peanut            20g Chicken Powder          1Tsp Oil                  400g Instructions 1.      Removed head of dried fish and wash in 2 times but don’t take too long time. 2.      Hea

  Coconut milk jelly Coconut milk jelly is made with coconut milk and agar powder. The beauty of this dessert is that it separates if self into two layers as it sets. A white coconut layer and transparent layer. Agar powder sets the jelly without refrigeration and does not melt in hot weather, so it is perfect for hot summer. We made coconut milk jelly for many ceremonies like house warming ceremony, Myanmar style birthday party, Myanmar water festival and etc… Preparation time 5min Cooking time 10mins Cuisine - Myanmar (Burmese) Ingredients For Transparent Layer Water     650g Telephone brand Agar power      15g Sugar     60g For Coconut Milk Layer Water     150g Telephone brand Agar power      10g Sugar     30g Coconut Milk     160g Instructions 1.         Add ingredients for transparent layer in a pot and bring to boil. When it thick, take the mold and decant jelly. Cool it down for a while and when the upper layer is little thicken, let’s made coconut milk layer. 2.         Add ing

  Sticky Ball and Tapioca with Jaggery (Mote Kyar Si) Mote Kyar Si is a kind of Myanmar dessert. I use jiggery for juice but if you like coconut milk, you can use it. Some of this dessert use tapioca, some of them are use only sticky ball and some of them are made with colour. So you can made your own dessert. Preparation time 10min Cooking time     30min Cuisine - Myanmar (Burmese) Ingredients Tapioca   1 ½ Cup Jaggery   150g Glutinous Rice Flour(sticky rice flour)     1cup Rice Flour          ¼ Cup Salt         1Tsp Water     3 ½ Cup Water     1L Coconut Shredded          For Serve Instructions 1.         Steep tapioca in water for 30min. Transfer to pot and boil with 2L of water until it clear. 2.         For jaggery Put the pot on stove and boil jaggery with 1L of water and a little of salt until it melt. When all of jaggery are melt, remove unnecessary things with sieve. 3.         Let’s make sticky ball. Put rice flour, glutinous rice flour, salt and water in a bowl and mix them

  Shwe Yin Aye and Mont Lat Saung Shwe Yin Aye is a Thingyan dessert and depending on the area, jelly has different colours– either green or white. White jelly is original colour and if you add pandan juice, you can get green colour. People from Southern Myanmar eat this dessert with white jelly and jiggery juice and it is called mont lat saung. People from yangon and Mandalay enjoy eating green jelly with coconut milk.   Shwe Yin Aye is prepared with steamed sticky rice, coconut milk, coconut milk jelly, sugar, bread and ice. Most of  the families donate Shwe Yin Aye for free to everyone.  This dessert is also similar to some of the desserts from other Asian countries. Now I would like to give you recipe of mont lat saung jelly. Because other ingredients are easy to made and coconut milk jelly is already uploaded. Mont lat saung jelly Preparation time 10min Cooking time     30min Cuisine - Myanmar (Burmese) Ingredients for mont lat saung jelly Mung bean flour             75g Rice Flou