Burmese coconut sago cake, also known as "brain" cake, is the perfect "not too sweet" cake for the coconut lover in your life.
Burmese coconut sago cake
Garlic butter prawn curry
This addictive and moreish garlic butter prawn curry with its golden gravy is perfect with rice, bread, pasta or any base you like.
Burmese pork curry with pickled bamboo shoots
This is probably my favourite Burmese pork curry mixed with the tang of pickled bamboo shoots. There's a slight pugent smell to the bamboo shoots, which my 6 year old daughter complains of although she has tolerated it a little more in recent times. You can make this pork curry with any cut of pork … Continue reading Burmese pork curry with pickled bamboo shoots
Burmese popiah (fresh spring rolls)
My mum used to make this basic popiah quite often because it was one of my dad's favourite dishes. The irony was that although he loved this dish the most, he was also the worst at wrapping. He preferred eating the filling with a spoon and simply biting off the wrapper. This, my friends, is … Continue reading Burmese popiah (fresh spring rolls)
Burmese beef curry
Burmese beef curry is one of my husband's favourite dishes. He can eat several serves of this in one sitting. You can use whatever type of cut you like but the best is using brisket off-cuts from my husband's smoking sessions. It has the perfect balance of meat and rendered fat with the tomatoey base … Continue reading Burmese beef curry
Burmese pea fried rice
Burmese pea fried rice is one of the my favourite ways to eat yellow peas. I recall hawkers walking down streets with baskets of steamed peas on their heads yelling "pe pyote" (boiled peas). They were a favourite of mine and traditionally steamed sprouted which adds a depth of flavour to these peas. My mom … Continue reading Burmese pea fried rice
Burmese chicken gourd curry
This Burmese chicken gourd curry is my favourite way to get buthee (bottle gourd / calabash). It's fairly rare to find it in Melbourne so how did we get our hands on this vegetable? Surprise! We've moved to Perth (from Melbourne). The weather here is fantastic and we are surrounded by my husband's family. We … Continue reading Burmese chicken gourd curry
Cheat’s Mohinga (Burmese Fish Noodle Soup)
This Mohinga recipe is a cheat's version that uses canned fish to get the same outcome as the traditional way of cooking, deboning and flaking the fish manually. For those that don't know, mohinga is a Burmese fish noodle soup that is often eaten for breakfast - or anytime really. It's one of my favourite … Continue reading Cheat’s Mohinga (Burmese Fish Noodle Soup)
Burmese Thick Noodle Chicken Salad (Nan Gyi Thoke)
This is one of my favourite Burmese noodle salad dishes. It's supposed to be made with thick rice noodles but it's in intermittent supply at my local Asian grocery store so what is pictured is a medium sized noodle. The thick noodles are usually packaged fresh as opposed to dry and often have Vietnamese names. … Continue reading Burmese Thick Noodle Chicken Salad (Nan Gyi Thoke)