Ohn No Kauk Swe Burmese Chicken Soup Recipes

Steps:

• Place 1/2 chopped onion, ginger, garlic, and 1/4 cup water into a blender and puree until smooth. Soak rice noodles in a bowl of lukewarm water for about 30 minutes.
• Season chicken thigh meat lightly with salt and black pepper in a bowl and set aside. In a separate small bowl, whisk 1 cup of chicken broth into the chickpea flour. Reserve remaining 2 cups chicken broth for a later step.
• Heat vegetable oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. Stir in chicken pieces and cook, stirring frequently, until lightly browned. Remove the chicken pieces with a slotted spoon and set aside. Reduce heat to medium and add 1 1/2 sliced onions to the pan. Cook and stir until onion has softened and turned translucent, about 5 minutes. Reduce heat to medium-low and continue cooking and stirring until the onion is very tender and dark brown, 15 to 20 minutes more. Stir in the turmeric, paprika, and cayenne pepper.
• In a medium stockpot, combine cooked chicken and any juices that have accumulated, browned onions, onion and ginger puree, and remaining 2 cups of chicken broth. Carefully add chickpea flour and broth mixture, stirring quickly so that the flour doesn't clump.
• Bring the pot to a boil; reduce the heat to low and simmer, uncovered, for 15 minutes.
• Stir in the coconut milk and cook just until heated through. Divide the soaked rice noodles among 5 large soup bowls. Ladle the soup over the rice noodles in the bowls and garnish each bowl with lemon wedges, green onions, hard-cooked eggs, cilantro, fish sauce, fried noodles, and curry powder.

Steps:

• Put the vermicelli and noodles in a large bowl, and cover with boiling water. As they soften, use two forks to separate the strands. When fully softened, drain them in a colander, and set aside.
• Rub the chicken with the fish sauce, and set aside.
• Dissolve the chickpea flour in the water, and set aside.
• In a food processor, blend together the onions, garlic, turmeric, ginger and chillies. When well-blended, add 1/4 cup of the coconut cream, and process to a smooth paste.
• Heat the peanut oil in a pan large enough to hold all the soup ingredients. Add the paste and fry for 3 minutes, stirring constantly. Add the chicken and continue frying for another 3 minutes, still stirring. Add half the stock (2 1/2 cups) and one stock cube, if used, and bring to a boil. Continue cooking another 15-20 minutes. Stir every 5 minutes. You want the sauce to start thickening.
• While the soup is cooking, prepare the garnishes, and set aside.
• While the soup is cooking, also heat the other half of the stock (and a second stock cube, if used) in another pan until it starts to boil. Add the dissolved (and stirred again) chickpea flour/water mixture, still stirring well to minimise lumps. When this thickens some (about 5 minutes) pour this mixture through a sieve into the pan containing the chicken mixture. Stir well. (The sieve is important -- no matter how much you stir, there are still a few lumps.).
• When the soup just starts to boil, add the remaining coconut cream. Then bring soup back to a rolling boil.
• While the soup is returning to a rolling boil, bring a full 2-liter kettle of water to the boil, then pour the hot water over the vermicelli and egg noodles you softened earlier. Get the garnishes ready to serve.
• Let diners serve themselves. Have each person put some noodles in their soup bowl, then ladle over the soup/chicken mixture and top with the garnishes they like. Those who like salty should add a few shots of extra fish sauce.
• Attack with a spoon and fork while the soup is hot.
• Note: We use all the garnishes -- liberally.

Steps:

• Cut chicken into serving pieces.
• Put Garlic,onion,ginger,ngapi, in blender and blend to a smooth paste; adding some of the peanut oil if paste becomes to dry.
• Heat remanding oils in a wok (or pan) and fry mixture off for 5 minutes.
• Add chicken and fry for a further few minutes.
• Add chilli powder,salt and thin coconut milk and simmer gently until chicken is tender. (45 minutes - 1 hr approx). If it becomes to dry add some hot water - a little at a time.
• Take off heat and add thick coconut milk and bring the pot SLOWLY to a boil. Stir constantly to prevent curdling.
• Mix Chick pea with a little cold water to a smooth paste and add to the curry, and cook for a further 5 minutes.
• Cook the noodles in a pot of salted boiling water until tender around 6-8 minutes.
• Drain the noodles and place in bowls, serve the curry on top with fried garlic and peanuts as accompaniments.

Steps:

• Dice onions, garlic, and ginger and put in separate bowls
• Cut lemongrass into five 2 inch pieces
• Coat bottom of large pot (8 or 12 qt stock pot works well) with a lot of oil - if there is not a puddle of oil that goes all around the pot then add more
• Put onions in and sweat until golden brown on medium-high. This part takes forever so be patient (like 2 hours forever) - remember to keep mixing so the onions don't burn. If your onions are white - keep on cooking its not ready - if there is a ton of onion juice still in your stock pot - its not ready - keep cooking - Golden Brown is key - kind of like golden brown hash browns if that is helpful
• Put the garlic in and stir it around maybe 2 or 3 minutes - should start smelling good at this point.
• Add 2 table spoons of powdered numeric, 3 tablespoons of fish sauce and 1/2 tablespoon of chili flakes to the pot
• Mix this combination for 2 to 3 minutes on medium to medium high - if you smell burning - thats not good - should not smell like burning - turn down the temp if you smell that
• Add in the 5 pounds of chicken thighs (preferable since breasts are kind of dry to be honest - but if you are not into that fat stuff - breast could work as well)
• Now mix this together for 2 to 3 minutes on medium in the pot
• Put in the chicken stock so there is at least a 1 inch layer on top of the chicken pieces - the two boxes should be enough. But to be honest folks - make your own chicken broth - its so much better. Just take a whole chicken, skin it, dump it in a stock pot, fill it with water up to the 2 inch from the top mark and simmer for 2 hours - boom done delicious)
• Add in the five 2 inch pieces of lemongrass and the diced ginger at this point
• Simmer for 30 minutes
• Pour in the 2 cans of coconut milk and simmer for another 5 minutes
• remove the lemongrass
• Taste the soup - and add salt, pepper, and chili to taste - at this point, in my opinion, you need to add some extra salt to make it work - but everyone has their own preferences so do as you see fit.
• hard boil your eggs - 1 per a person
• cut up the green onions - this stuff is for garnish
• cook the noodles according to the instructions on the packet
• Take the bowl, add in the noodles, put in a egg per a person, pour in the soup, garnish with green onions and serve
• Cut up your lime and squeeze it onto your bowl to taste