Pumpkin in Coconut Milk....Easiest Thai dessert

Thai people love to eat sweet pumpkin in coconut milk as a dessert. It is one of the easiest Thai deserts to prepare and never disappoints.
Ingredients

1. One and a half cups of coconut milk
2. Two cups of cut pumpkin (chunks or sticks)
3. A little bit of salt
4. Pandanus (if you like)
5. Half cup of palm sugar




Direction
1. Heat the coconut milk in small pot until boiling
2. Add pumpkin and cook until tender (about 10 minutes)
3. Add palm sugar and salt

Tip: Make sure the pumpkin is really tender before adding sugar.

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Pinapple Soup with Pork

Among all kinds of Thai soup from my Mom's kitchen,I love this most because of the sweet and sour flavor of the Pineapple.It's simple,take short time to prepare.This pineapple soup is good for everyone especially in the cold weather like this.

Ingredients

- Pineapple chop into pieces or cube 1cup

- Pork chop into small pieces about 1/2 cup

- water 1 1/2 cup

- shirmp paste 1-1 1/2 tbp

- 3 Shallots

- 10 peppercorn black/or white

- dried Shrimp 1/2 cup soak in water for5 minutes

- groundnuts boiled1/2 cup

- fish sauce 3 tbps

- plam sugar 1tsp

- tamarind concentrate if the pineapple not sour enough

Direction

1.Put together pepper/shrimp paste/shallots blend nicely in the food processor

2.Bring water to boil

3.Put ( 1)into the water follow by pork/pineapple/dried shrimp and boiled groundnuts

4.About10 minuites put fish sauce /plam sugar and tamarind pulp to serve

Tip :Reheat several times make better flavor