Cook with Us - March, Week 1 - Rice Noodles with Spicy Fish Soup (Khanom Jeen Namya Kati)

Hi, Today I want to join competition with my cooking friends #cookwithus, the topic is Favourite Family Recipe! I'm really excited to show you my family recipe, we usually cook it when we met up! This meal is Rice Noodles with Spicy Fish Soup (Khanom Jeen Namya Kati). You can cook this meal in a big pot and it's easy to eat it with rice noodles and fresh vegetables, I like to eat it like that very much! It looks a bit like a small buffet, this meal is not expensive too, I will show you how to cook it, let’s follow my recipe. ;)

Ingredients:
• 500 grams of rice noodles
• 1 snakehead fish
• 500 ml. coconut milk
• 100 grams of sliced finger root
• 100 grams of sliced galangal
• 3 sliced lemongrass
• 7 cloves of garlic
• 7 shallots
• 5 coriander roots
• 6 kaffir limes
• 30 dried chilis
• 10 fish balls
• Fresh vegetables: long bean, sprouts, cabbage, cucumber, hairy basil and peppermint

Flavoring:
• 2 teaspoon of salt
• 1 tablespoon of sugar
• 2 tablespoons of fish sauce

Cooking:
• Set the pot over the medium heat, add 1.5 liter of boiled pure water. Then, add garlic, shallots, coriander root, lemongrass, kaffir lime, galangal, finger root, chili and salt, boil all the ingredients for 5 minutes.

• Add 250ml. of coconut milk and snakehead fish into the pot boil it for 7 minutes. Then, stop the heat and remove all the ingredients from the pot.

• Next step: add all the boiled ingredients, snakehead fish meat and 250ml. of coconut milk into the blender and mix them all together.

• Set the pot with the soup again, add all the blended ingredients into the soup pot and boil it.
• Add sugar, fish sauce and fish ball into the pot and cook it for 5 minutes.
• Spicy Fish Soup is finished !
• Prepare the plate with rice noodles, fish soup into the rice noodles, put fresh vegetables into the plate too, if you like to eat them! This meal is my absolutely favourite one! Sooo delicious!!!

Khanom Jeen Namya Kati is not only my favourite family recipe but it is very famous in Thailand too. We cook it when we celebrate traditional holidays, it doesn't matter if it is a big or a small party. It’s really very popular and Thai people love to eat this meal very much! You can also easily look for it, they sell it everywhere in Thailand cooked in a very big pot and in different versions, too! We like to eat this meal with a lot of fresh vegetables and it usually costs only 30 bath per dish, and you will get vegetables for free, too! You see how popular it is!
Why would the ingredients work together? It's because the ingredients I used are herbs, they are special and have a different taste, but when you cook it together and the ingredients are balanced they fit very well. I used snakehead fish meat and coconut milk which made the meal smooth.
I will tell you about its taste a bit. You can feel the taste of all the ingredients, and to be honest with you, I like to eat it very spicy, as you can see how many dried chillis I used to cook it! Fresh vegetables will help you to balance its spicy taste. I think if you want try this meal and get the feeling how delicious it really is, you have to try my version! The soup is pretty thick! If you like spicy food, I'm sure you'll love it! It can burn your mouth too, but it's sooo delicious!!! I hope you will try it yourself with your family. ;)
Thank you so much for reading my post, and this is the first post for #cookwithus. I’m happy to be the part of it with you all. ;)
Love, ❤️ Maya