Supper Club

A lot of people ask me what’s my favorite Thai restaurant in GA.  I have to be honest with you I don’t really go to Thai restaurants much, because I cook Thai food for myself, but this particular question led me to think about the future for my next project which is Supper club.  What is Supper club?  In my terms Supper club is:  I will cook authentic Thai food that most of you cannot find in a regular Thai restaurant.  The menu will depend on the theme of each event which is just like you take a trip to try a food in Thailand.  So I talked to my boss Chef Richard at Bradford’s on bishop.  He loves this idea, so we decided to have Thai Supper club. Starting on friday November 4th, 2011.  We will start with Thai food in the chart of Top 50 CNNGO.com  World's 50 most delicious foods .  Because I just found out that Thai food has 4 dishes in the top 50^th and the menu will be

Salad : 46th Som tum : Papaya salad

Salad :19^th Num tok Moo : Spicy grilled pork salad

Soup : 8^th Tom yum kung : Spicy shrimp soup

Entrée : 1^st Massaman Curry

Dessert : Sticky rice with mango

The dessert is not in the top 50^th but I thought about what kind of meal that doesn’t have a dessert right!!!  So I picked one of the famous Thai desserts to put on the menu to complete the dinner.  I hope you don’t mind to have something extra.  Since this menu is very popular you might think all of this food you could find it in a lot of Thai restaurants, but trust me they do not make this food the authentic Thai style!!!  And this is just the beginning for this supper club you will see all of the authentic menus that you never knew about before.  If you want to join my club please visit http://sunisasthaisupperclub.eventbrite.com Hurry I have limited seating available!!!

Massaman Curry

Massaman curry

               

                This is one of the most famous Thai currys for a lot of western people.  They know Thailand as this dish.  Massaman curry is not a very spicy kind of Thai curry.  I believe this curry was transformed by Indian cooking.  The curry paste itself has a lot of spice in it.  It’s not that hard to make a paste just a lot of ingredients are needed, if you want the easy way use ready to make Massaman paste it’s OK with me, but homemade paste are always better right!!! Here are the recipes for paste and curry.

Note: This Massaman paste can be used in the peanut dipping sauce recipe in Satay too.

Massaman Paste : make 6 tbsp.

Ingredients for Massaman paste

3 Dried red chilli soak in the water until soft

1 tsp. salt

1 tsp. toasted chopped Galangal
1 tbsp. Toasted chopped Lemon grass

2 Toasted garlic

3 Toasted shallot (if small 5)

1 tbsp. toasted grounded Coriander seed

1 tsp. Cumin

1 tbsp. grounded pepper

2 clove

1 tsp. shrimp paste.

Shrimp paste

1 tsp. cinnamon

1 tsp. turmeric

1 tbsp. vegetable oil

Instructions

In the blender add all ingredients and blend it until it becomes paste for about 4-5 minutes.

Massaman paste

Massaman Curry : 2 servings 

½ pound chicken

1 onion cut

1 carrot cut

1 potato

3 tbsp. Massaman curry paste

1 ½ tsp. sugar

1 tbsp. fish sauce

1 tbsp. tamarind juice (if you don’t have it use vinegar)

1 can 14 oz coconut milk

Ingredients for Massaman curry

Cooking instructions

1.       Put coconut milk into refrigerator about an hour in order to separate the cream of it, after an hour use the spoon and scoop the creamy top of coconut milk, take about 4 tbsp. Reserve the rest.

2.       Preheat the pot in medium low heat then add coconut cream and Massaman curry paste, stir constantly until it becomes oily (Call Ka-ti Tak mun) about 4-5 minutes

add coconut cream and paste

cooked paste and coconut cream until it becomes oily

1.       Add chicken stir until chicken cooked then add coconut milk, potato, onion, carrot, sugar, fish sauce and tamarind juice.

2.       Let it cook about 5-7 minutes or until potato cooked.

3.       Serve with steamed rice.