Thai Cooking Class – No Name Vegetable (โนเนมผัก)

Hardly found in any restaurant outside of Thailand, this cooking class is about a Thai snack, which is very popular with westerners, visiting the island destinations in the South of the country. The dish literally has no name in Thailand. It is a snack originating out of times of poverty, when people scrambled to make a living. This dish was made out of scraps. The name is probably not older than a few decades. It probably was named when American soldiers on leave from the Vietnam War were asking for the name of the dish. The Thai script in the title sounds “No Name Pak” with “Pak” meaning “vegetable”.
In our recipe for the cooking class is already mentioned in the ingredients “… and more vegetables of your choice” which can be taken face value – just experiment with any scraps you have at hand. They work as well with minced meats like pork and chicken and as a more sophisticated variety with prawns.
This snack is served with some tomatoes and lettuce. As a sauce you are usually given the same sweet chilly sauce which accompanies spring rolls when ordered in a restaurant. On our picture the sauce is a homemade sweet chilly sauce which preparation we will show you in another Thai Cooking Class recipe. If you like, you can prepare the curry paste yourself: Red Curry Paste

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Cooking Class No Name

Course

Snack

Cuisine

Thai

Servings

Ingredients

• Sweet corn removed from the cob
• Grated Carrots
• Long beans chopped
• Pumpkin chopped
• Cabbage chopped
• Bean Sprouts
• Lime leaves ...and more vegetables of your choice
• Red Curry Paste
• 2 tblsp. Rice Flour
• 3 tblsp. Tempura Flour
• Cold water
• salt
• sugar
• Black Pepper only if you like it a bit spicy
• Cooking oil
• 1 Egg

Course Snack Cuisine Thai Servings Ingredients Sweet corn removed from the cob Grated Carrots Long beans chopped Pumpkin chopped Cabbage chopped Bean Sprouts Lime leaves ...and more vegetables of your choice Red Curry Paste 2 tblsp. Rice Flour 3 tblsp. Tempura Flour Cold water salt sugar Black Pepper only if you like it a bit spicy Cooking oil 1 Egg

Instructions

1. Have your ingredients ready. The 2 little bowls on the plate are the Red Curry Paste and the finely chopped lime leaves. Behind the plate you see the tempura and rice flour.

   
2. Add all the vegetables, egg, red curry paste, salt and sugar into a bowl. If you are vegan, just leave the egg away.

   
3. Add tempura and rice flour

   
4. Add a little bit of cold water and mix well

   
5. Heat up the cooking oil in a pan
6. Add more flour if it is too wet and start spooning it into the hot oil. Just take spoon full and scoop the mixture off the spoon with another spoon or fork.

   
7. Fry until golden brown

   
8. Serve with sweet chilly sauce and decoration to your liking