How to cook Peka’s fruit salad
Peka
(also known as many names, such as broken bones, Oroxylum Indicum, Tree of
Damokles, or Midnight horror) is one of beneficial plants. It’s said that people
use it for treating different diseases. In Thailand, its fruits (commonly
called Lin mai, Lin fa, or Paka) are used to cook food. Though there are many
ways to cook them, I recommend you to make them as salad. Let’s see how to cook
Peka’s fruit salad!!!
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Ingredients
for spice
15
pieces of dried chili
6
shallots
½
cup of chopped Lemon grass
1
tbsp. of chopped garlic
Ingredients
for salad
4
cups of Peka’s fruits
2
cups of ground pork (pan fried)
½
cup of parsley and spring
onions
4
mints
2
tbsp. of toasted ground rice
½
cup of sliced shallot
1
tbsp. of fish sauce
1
tbsp. of lime juice
Equipment
Charcoal
fire
Knife
and cutting boards
Measuring
cups
Mixing
bowl
Spoon
for mixing
Mortar
for ponding
Preparation
Frist,
grill the Peka’s fruits on charcoal fire about 10 minutes. Then scrape off the
charred outside skin and cut their pulp into 0.5-inch pieces.
Second,
dry fry dried chili, shallots, chopped Lemon, and grass chopped garlic. After
that, pound them together. So we have spice ready for salad. Set it aside.
Instructions
for cooking salad
First,
put the spice into a mixing bowl. Then, add lime juice, fish sauce and toasted
ground rice and mix them well.
Second,
add the pan fried shallot and ground pork. After that, mix them well again.
Third,
add pieces of the grilled broken bones plant’ fruits which are prepared already
and toss them well.
Next,
sprinkle the spring onions and sliced parsley. Then mix them together.
Last
step, now the Peka’s fruit salad is ready to be served. Serve it immediately on
a large plate or bowl with steaming hot sticky rice. Don’t forget to put mints
on the salad before eating. Enjoy it now.
