Tag: Fusion
Forbidden Rice Chicken Soup
Forbidden Rice Chicken Soup
Let’s get a few things straight…This soup by any means isn’t authentic Thai whatsoever. It uses some Thai ingredients, but its origin is very American. Forbidden rice is Chinese in its origin, but is eaten as a dessert with sweetened coconut milk in Thai cuisine; never in soup. With all that said, this soup is nothing short of tasty.
Ingredients
- 2 lbs bone in chicken breast and thighs
- 3 stalks lemongrass peeled and bruised
- 2 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1/2 cup shallots finely chopped
- 6 garlic cloves minced
- 1 small red bell pepper small dice
- 6 Thai chili finely chopped
- 4 green onions chopped
- 1 tbsp red or green curry paste
- 2 cups coconut milk
- 2 cups tomatoes chopped
- 2 tbsp palm sugar
- 2 tbsp fish sauce
- 2 cups forbidden black rice cooked
For Serving
- lime wedges
- cilantro chopped
- peanuts chopped
Instructions
- Bring a large pot of water to boil. Add in the chicken and lemongrass. Simmer for 30 minutes until the chicken is cooked through. Remove the chicken and let cool enough to pull the meat off the bones. Add the bones back into the pot and simmer until you yield 4 cups of stock. Remove the bones and lemongrass. Save the stock.
- In a medium size stock pot, heat up cooking oil over medium heat. Sauté the shallots, garlic, bell pepper, Thai chilies, and green onion for 5 minutes.
- Add in the tomatoes, curry paste, coconut milk, and palm sugar. Simmer for 5 minutes.
- Pour in the chicken stock and fish sauce. Simmer for 5 more minutes.
- Add the black rice and the chicken into the soup. Simmer for 5 more minutes.
- Ladle the soup into bowls. Serve with chopped cilantro, crushed peanuts, and lime wedges.
Vietnamese Coffee Tiramisu
Vietnamese Coffee Tiramisu
Tiramisu is one of my favorite desserts. Vietnamese coffee is my favorite way to consume caffeine. So I did what any hungry sweet-toothed stoner would do and combined the two into the ultimate Vietnamese/Italian fusion dessert. This tiramisu is so tasty that after you eat the entire baking dish, you’ll make a second one the next day. Waste line: EXPAND!
Equipment
- standing mixer
Ingredients
- 2 cups black coffee chilled
- 1/2 cup sweetened condensed milk divided
- 2 large eggs whites and yolks separated
- 8 oz mascarpone
- 24 ladyfingers
- cocoa powder
Instructions
- In a standing mixer, mix the coffee and a 1/4 cup of sweetened condensed milk. Pour in a bowl and set aside.
- Beat the egg yolks and the rest of the sweetened condensed milk for 30 seconds.
- Add in the mascarpone and mix until smooth. Remove from the bowl.
- Beat the egg whites until they peak. Fold into the mascarpone mixture.
- Dip the ladyfingers into the Vietnamese coffee.
- Line a 9×5 glass dish with a dozen of the soaked ladyfingers.
- Pour over half of the mascarpone batter. Place another layer of the soaked ladyfingers.
- Pour over the rest of the mascarpone batter. Dust with cocoa powder. Refrigerate for at least 4 hours, preferably overnight, before serving.
Fried Banana Split with Dulce de Leches
Fried Banana Split with Dulce de Leches
While this isn’t directly Brazilian, the fried bananas and dulce de leche are(they’re also eaten in just about every Latin country in various forms of preparation). The banana split contains vanilla ice cream, whipped cream, toasted coconut, pecans, maraschino cherries, as well as the fried bananas and dulce de leches.
Servings: 2
Ingredients
- 2 bananas split lengthwise
- 1 large egg beaten
- 1/2 cup cassava flour
- vegetable oil for frying
- 1 tsp sugar
- vanilla ice cream
- pecans chopped
- toasted coconut
- whipped cream
- maraschino cherries
Dulce de Leches
- 1 can sweetened condensed milk
Instructions
- Place the sweetened condensed milk in a glass pie pan on a baking sheet filled with warm water. Cover with foil and place in a preheated 425 degree oven for 1 hour.
- Uncover and whisk out any lumps. Keep warm.
- Dredge the bananas in the flour, then egg, then back in the flour.
- Heat up 1/2” deep of vegetable oil in a skillet over medium heat. Add the bananas to the oil.
- Fry for 4 minutes a side. Drain grease on a wire rack and sprinkle with sugar.
Banana Split Assembly
- Scoop 3 scoops of ice cream in the bottom of a bowl. Cut the bananas in half so you have 4 pieces. Arrange them around the bowl.
