This delectable recipe is an excellent dish with a slightly chewy texture from the rice noodles and the grilled catfish that soaked up well in flavourful prahok sauce with the help to balance the taste by adding cooked vegetables and sourness from the squeezed lime juice.
Ingredients: prahok (finely chopped), palm sugar, garlic, dried chili pepper, shallot, chicken soup base mix, salt, fish sauce.
Vegetables: cabbage, cauliflower, long green bean, water spinach.
Grilled catfish
Rice noodles
Combine all in one bowl.
Yummy!
Rice Noodles Prahok Sauce
This delectable recipe is an excellent dish with a slightly chewy texture from the rice noodles and the grilled catfish that soaked up well in flavourful prahok sauce with the help to balance the taste by adding cooked vegetables and sourness from the squeezed lime juice.
Ingredients
Method
Cooking the vegetables:
- In a large pot, bring water to a boil, add one tablespoon of olive oil | vegetable oil into the boing water and add all the vegetables, cabbage, cauliflower, long green bean, water spinach and cook for about 2-3 minutes.
- Transfer into a large bowl of cool water to stop it from continuing to cook, wait for 5 minutes and drain, and cut all the vegetables into bite-sized pieces.
Prahok Sauce:
- Finely chop fermented fish.
- In a non-stick pan over medium heat, roast garlic, shallot, dried chili pepper until fragrant.
- Use mortar and pestle to firstly pound the roasted dried chili pepper, then add the rest and pound them all together until becomes a paste.
- In a saucepan over medium heat, add palm sugar and stir until it begins to bubble, then add finely chopped fermented fish or prahok, stir until combine.
- Continue adding the chili garlic shallot paste in, stir to combine.
- Add water, salt, fish sauce, chicken soup base mix, and stir. Once it starts boiling, turn the heat off and transfer into a glass jar.
Grill the fish:
- Let's start grilling the catfish for 15 to 20 minutes on top of a griller over medium heat, flipping halfway through to ensure the entire fish is cooked through.
Serving:
- Let's start putting all together, first rice noodles, vegetables, grilled fish, prahok sauce and lime. Add the right amount of each to your liking.
- Enjoy!
