Sawaddee ka welcome to hot Thai kitchen today I want to share with you a recipe for a really
simple vegetable side dish now it's so simple that you're probably not gonna believe me that
it's that good but trust me this dish is super popular in Thailand right now because it's so
good I'm talking about something called galam plee pad nampla galam plee is cabbage Pad
means to stir-fry and nampla is fish sauce and just by the name I've almost given you the
entire recipe it's that simple all right let's get started so for the cabbage you want to use
green cabbage for this and I've just cut them into sort of like squares like that now the
cabbage that I like to use is actually an Asian style cabbage where they're little more squat so
this is like a quarter of a cabbage right here I know it's like the biggest cabbage
I've ever seen in my life but you know instead of being round like a ball it's more flat like
this so this is the remainder of it so but you can totally use a regular round one it's
just that I personally prefer these I find the leaves are a little bit more delicate and now
the garlic so you want lots and lots of garlic for this recipe and I'm gonna show you what sort
of how I process these for this recipe if I want them smashed and not chopped because I like that
chunky you want that chunky pieces of garlic in there so I just take my pestle here and you can
use something else that's heavy and smash them and then you can peel them as well easily right
and then I smash it down a little bit more oops so that they break up into pieces like this and
this way they're so bruised that the flavor really comes out easily but when you eat it
once it's been cooked it's soft and garlicky mmm so good so when I do this to the rest of my garlic
and now of course the fish sauce the number I so this is the time you want to pull out your
best your most luxurious your most delicious premium fish sauce and if you've seen my fish
sauce tasting video you know that my favorite one is this red boat one it is more expensive
but it really is premium quality and this dish will be one where you can really taste
it because it's the only seasoning we're gonna use apart from that I've got some white pepper
just for a little subtle heat you don't have to do it you can do black pepper if you want
if you want to make it spicy you can add a little bit Thai chilies but really this is
all there is to it let's get cooking okay so heat on not too high at this point some oil in
there and right away I'm gonna add my garlic and I want to add the garlic when the oil is
not super hot so the garlic has time to slowly infuse the flavor in there if your oil is hot
and you add the garlic it's like instantly turns golden and you don't have time to really soften
the garlic which is what you want for this so I'll tell you a secret this is actually
the second time I've had to film this recipe because the first time Adam insisted on having
one more close-up of the garlic and he cost me to burn the garlic yeah so I'm very upset so now
that the garlic's starting to turn golden brown around the edges in goes the cabbage quick spot
and then the fish sauce
and the pepper and that's it now you're gonna just continue to toss this around until the cabbage is
wilted really at this point to your liking you want a nice and crisp oh you want a nice and
stuff take it as far as you want and you can crank the heat up at this point as well all right and
I think I am happy with that the thinner pieces are translucent so nice and crisp on the bigger
pieces off heat and we're done I know now you're thinking what that it this can't be good but now
when you try it you're gonna be like oh my god it's brilliant and you're gonna thank me because
it's so simple so budget-friendly to don't have to plan anything ahead of time now if you think
this looks a little bit ho-hum and you want a little something something you can do green onion
sprinkle do whatever you can just do like a little bit of like a black pepper crack in the middle you
know give it a little jazz it up a little but most of the time this is probably not gonna be the only
thing you're having for dinner it's gonna be a nice side dish but like a chicken stir-fry or like
something like a barbecue chicken or something but I'm gonna taste it as is have this with rice of
course Thai style we always eat everything with rice I want to make sure I get some garlic on
there I just have to comment that even though fish sauce is the only thing in this dish once you've
cooked it and everything it no longer smells fishy like not at all and this is the wonderful
thing about fish sauce right when you cook it it just it just transforms into something else
all that garlic so good incredible simple goodness the cabbage has a natural sweetness
to it so we didn't need to add any sugar at all and the fish sauce because it's good quality fish
sauce it's so it's got such a rich mommy flavor but it's really quite incredible then like that
comes from one ingredient so good I mean this is that simple as it gets this is like a rustic
Thai home cooking right here if you want to know what Thai people eat on a Wednesday night it's
something like this and it's so delicious so I hope you give this a try the recipe as always
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