Char Kroeung

From The Age, August 15, 2007. Quick Cambodian stir-fry. Serve with rice vermicelli noodles, lettuce, fresh mint and bean shoots.

Beef Lok Lak (Cambodian Recipe)

I ate lots of Lok Lak on a recent holiday to Cambodia. It’s similar to Vietnamese Shaking Beef although the Cambodians don’t like to admit that. In Cambodia it might come with chips (fries) and a fried egg or rice-I liked the rice option. You eat it by wrapping portions of the meat and salad ingredients in a lettuce leaf, then dipping that in the dipping sauce (the best part of it I reckon). Sometimes the meat is sliced, sometimes it’s cubed-I prefer slices. Semi ripe tomatoes are preferred to ripe ones, but use what you have!

Shrimp and Asparagus Stir Fry

This is a Cambodian recipe called Pa-con char tapeng P’rang. It is very simple and uses common ingredients, well if you call oyster sauce common.

Bhutanese Chile Chicken With Red Rice

This recipe is based on a spicy stir-fry served hroughout the Himalayas and the country of Bhutan. Use any type of hot chile pepper – jalapeno, Thai chiles etc. I have modified the traditional recipe to be lower in sodium and fat. The red rice makes it naturally higher in fibre.

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