Thank You
November is a pleasant and happy month of the year for me. I am thankful to my mother for bringing in to this world alive. Also, I do not really know Thanksgiving celebration is the season's eating festival for all Americans. I do not need to explain how Thanksgiving came about America since we could find out in google and it also explains well in Wikipedia.
For me, this celebration first came to my notice when my kindergarten son brought the coloring project of a Big turkey drawn on paper. Then at school, children could bring their grandpa, grandma or parents for Thanksgiving awareness to educate the children. As for me, I was happy that I am able to attend my niece's kindergarten class celebration as she invited me as her favorite person last year also. I am thankful that some love and bonding between all human beings in this world.
In our town, we usually visit this one beautiful family that hosts a Thanksgiving party every year. I usually make the fragrant chicken rice that I enjoyed in Singapore. They always cook the turkey so I bring the rice and spicy chili sauce to go with meat, rice, and vegetable. In this recipe, I will make two sauces that we enjoy meat and green vegetables.
One is Chili garlic sauce and another is Burmese Tomato sauce to enjoy with plain rice. Tomato sauce is also a great accompaniment for some vegetarian dishes. This November, since I am in Singapore, I am able to make authentic chili sauce and also the tomato sauce or Burmese spicy salsa because of fresh red chili padi (Birds eye's chili).
Hot and Spicy Ginger chili sauce ( 10 serving)
Ingredients
1/4 cups Red Chili padi (small)
1/4 cups Red Chili padi (big)
2 Tbsp Fine chopped garlic
3 Tbsp Fine chopped ginger
1/2 cups Chicken Broth
2 Tbsp Fine chopped shallot
4 Tbsp Fish Sauce
1 lemon ( or 1/4 cup lemon juice)
2 Tbsp sugar
1 Tbsp Vinegar
Salt to taste
Instruction
1. In a clean and dry electric blender, add all the ingredients together at the same time.
2. Blend it until smooth and add a little bit of cold water if needed.
3. We may adjust the taste by adding lemon, salt, and fish sauce to our liking.
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Spicy Tomato Sauce ( Burmese Spicy Tomato Salsa)
Ingredients
3 Ripen BushalBoy Tomato ( or ) 5,6 Roma tomatoes
3 Red chili padi ( Big)
2 Tbsp Fine chopped garlic
1/4 cups Chopped Cilantro
1 tbsp Light soy sauce
1 tbsp Fine chopped Thai green chili
2 Tbsp Golden fried garlic oil
1 lime or 1 tbsp lime juice
Salt to taste
Instruction
1. Put the skillet on the stovetop with Medium-high heat, add the chili padi and tomatoes together and cook till charred.
2. When the tomatoes and chili are soft enough to peel off the skin, let it cool down for a while.
3. Peel off the skin from tomatoes and chili. Then put all the ingredients together in the electric chopper. Then chopped it till all the ingredients blended in.
4. Pour the sauce into the clean and dry bowl then cover with plastic wrap.
5. Chill the bowl for a few hours before serving.
( we may use fish sauce for non-vegetarian options. It can be tastier.)
