Stir-Fried Broccoli With Beef (Chhar Phkar Khat Na Khiev Sach Ko)

Today I went to a grocery store for some tomatoes to cook Hungarian Lecso/Lachow (a very popular Hungarian food and delicious, I love it), but suddenly I saw some fresh broccoli which changed my mind not to cook the Hungarian food for lunch but Khmer food, stir-fried broccoli with beef. So here again simple, fast and good taste! Let’s try this recipe and let me know how you like it..

Recipe for Two Persons:
Ingredients: 250g of Beef, 500g of Broccoli, 4cloves of Garlic, 3sp of Oil, 2sp of Soy Sauce, 1/2tsp of Salt, and1tsp of Sugar.

Method:
1. Slice beef into small piece and thin. Peel out the skin of Broccoli and cut into small piece as size of your thumb. Peel out garlic and chop it into very small piece.

2. Heat up frying pan, pure oil in. Then put chopped garlic to fry it till get nice smell. After that put sliced beef and fry 30 seconds, then start to put soy sauce, salt and sugar in (if you like spicy, you can add chopped hot chili or 1/3tsp ground pepper in as most of recipes are not spicy). Stir them well then cover for 5minutes.

3. After 5minutes, open the cover to stir them well again and add 50ml of water if it’s so dry then cover for other 3minutes. Then it’s ready to serve with steamed rice or as the way you like.

Language Tip: English =) Khmer

Beef = Sach Ko

Broccoli = Phka Khat Na Khiev

Garlic = Khtoem Sor

Fry = Chhar

Oil = Preng Chhar

Peel = Bork

Salt = Om Berl

Slice = Chit

Soy Sauce = Toek Sa Iv 

Sugar = Skor Sor

Khmer Beef Lok Lak...ChikChak & Great Taste! (Chhar Lok Lak Sach Ko)

Have you ever heard about Lok Lak? In Khmer language this food is Chik-Chak, something that we say it is easy and quick (I just found that in Hebrew Chik-Chak means ‘quickly’ same like Khmer). If you have been to Cambodia, probably you have heard about this food.

Lok Lak is one of the most favorite foods for Cambodians; it’s just as popular as Fried Rice or Noodle. But it is often cooked at the time when there is a family meeting, party or weekend. By local tradition, this food is popularly eaten by using fingers, and it is served in a big plat which everybody could share this dish together. This way of eating makes entire families enjoy Lok Lak slowly along with chatting, and brings such a great time.

Anyway, in restaurant now they serve Lok Lak in an individual portion, and with spoon and fork. Below I will show how we eat Lok Lak by using fingers.

Recipe for One Person:

Ingredients: 250g of Beef Tenderloin, 3cloves of Garlic, and half of small onion

Dressing: 1/2sp of fresh Lime or Lemon Juice, 2sp of hot water, 1cloves of Garlic, 1/2tsp of Salt, ½ tsp of Ground Pepper.

Vegetables to serve with: 1medium size of Tomato, and Iceberg Lettuce (use different kind of lettuce up to favorite like Romaine, Red or Green Oak Leaf, Lollo, Frisee, Or Mixed Salad – but I like Iceberg as it’s sweet and crisp, but local Cambodians usually use Khmer lettuce which looks similar to green Oak Leaf or Lollo lettuce).

Method:

1. Slice Tomato very thin after that prepare it with iceberg salad on a plate.

2. Prepare Dressing (Pepper Sauce): Peel out the 1 cloves of garlic and chop them into very small pieces or smash, then put into a small bowl. After that mix salt, pepper, lime/lemon juice, and water in. Mix them well together. Keep it to serve.

3. Frying the Beef: 

1. Slice the beef tenderloin very thin into pieces and the same way slice onion very thin. Then peel out the 3cloves of garlic and chop into very small pieces.
2. Heat up the frying pan, pure the oil in. Then put chopped garlic in and fry it to get nice smell. After that put sliced beefs and stir it about 30seconds (medium cooked), then put sliced onion it and stir it well for 2-3 seconds.
3. After that take it out to put on the plat that prepared salad and tomato already, then ready to serve with steamed rice (Lok Lak is served with fried potato too for modern style)

The way of eating:

 

1. Take a piece of Iceberg to wrap a piece of sliced tomato and a few sliced beefs 
2. Then dip it into dressing (Pepper Sauce)
3. With one bit of Lok Lak, then one bit of steamed rice

Hmm, can't wait....

Language Tip: English =) Khmer

Beef = Sach Ko

Cook = Chom In, Slor(often used)

Dressing = Toek Chro Louk

Garlic = Khtoem Sor

Fry = Chhar 

Hot = Kdao

Lime = Kroch Chmar

Oil = Preng Chhar

Onion = Khtoem Barang

Pepper = Mar Rich

Salt = Om Berl 

Salad/Lettuce = Salad 

Slice = Chit , Han

Tomato = Peng Pors

Water = Toek

Delicious Khmer Fried Rice With Shrimp (Chhar Baii)

Fried rice is a popular food of Asian dishes. In Cambodia, fried rice is not only fond of by tourists but also locals as it's truly delicious in many ways of cooking. Fried rice can be a breakfast or lunch for Cambodian. It is made by steamed rice that cooked already or leftover rice. When I was young, my mum often made fried rice for breakfast because she used the leftover steamed rice from the last evening. Recipe of fried rice are varieties, we can cook with different meats, vegetables and ingredients. Cambodians like to use fish sauce for cooking, so fish sauce is an important ingredient for local fried rice recipe. But in my recipe, fish sauce is not used Read.

Recipes for Two persons:

Ingredients: 100g of Skinless Shrimp (small or big shrimp up to favorite), 2Eggs, 1small size of Carrot, 150g of Broccoli, 6pieces of White Baby Mushroom, 4cloves of Garlic, a few leaves of Spring Onion, 4sp of Oil, 2sp of Oyster Sauce, 1sp of Soy Sauce, 2tsp of Sugar, 1/2tsp of Salt, 1/4tsp of ground Pepper (use chopped red hot chili, if you prefer it very spicy), and 2potions of steamed rice.

So what you need to do first is: Cook 1cup of Jasmine Rice or Long Grain Rice 'A quality'. If you don't have rice cooker, please check my instructions of cooking steamed rice by pot See.

Method:
1. Peel out the skin of carrot and garlic, then cut them into small pieces. Cut spring onion the same way like carrot and garlic. Chop each baby mushroom into 4, and take out the skin of broccoli then cut it small pieces.

2. Heat up the frying pan. Pure the oil in, then put chopped garlic into hot oil, fry it until get good smell. Then put chopped carrot and spring onion in, fry for 30seconds.
 
3. After that, break eggs and put in, stir-fry for a while till it's separated well. Then put skinless shrimps and fry them together about 2-3 minutes. Later put salt, sugar, oyster sauce, soy sauce and ground pepper, then stir and mix them well for 10seconds. After that, put chopped mushrooms and broccoli in, and fried around 3-4 minutes.

4. Last, put the steamed rice that you cooked already in, stir and mix them well together about 1minute, then it's ready to serve.

Note: You can add extra chili, a small piece of lime/lemon, or some parsley/coriander leaves on the top for serving.

Language Tip: English =) Khmer

Brocoli = Phkar Khat Na Khiev

Carrot = Karot

Chili = Ma Tes

Chop = Pus

Cut = Kat

Eat = Nyam

Egg = Pong Mann

Delicious = Cha Nhanh

Garlic = Khtoem Sor

Fry = Chhar

Mushroom = Pshit

Oyster Sauce = Preng Kchorng

Peel = Bork

Pepper = Mar Rich

Rice = Ang kor (raw), Baii(cooked), Srov(with skin)

Salt = Om Berl

Shrimp = Boeng Kear

Soy Sauce = Toek Sa Iv

Spring Onion = Khtoem Barang

Sugar = Skor Sor

Fried Rice = Chhar Baii