Long been salad

Soop Thua  (Long Bean salad)

Ingredients

          Long bean                                             1 cup

          Water                                                  1 cup

          Roasted Sesame                                     1 table spoon

          Green onions                                         ½ cup

          Fish sauce                                             1 table spoon

          Fermented fish sauce                              3 table spoon

          Round small egg plants                            3 egg plants

          Steamed mackerel                                  1 fish           

          Grilled chilli peper                                  4-5 chilies

Long bean (string bean)                            3-4

Dried Lentinus polychrous ( a kind of mushroom)  1 cup     (optional if available)

Direction

1.       Grill the chilli until you get the smell, but do not burn it.

2.       Boil the water, put the round egg plants, string beans, long beans, mackerel, and 3 table spoon of fermented fish sauce, until they are cooked. ( if you want to add Dried Lentinus polychrous, you have to soak it over night, then slice them before boil them with other vegetables in the next step)

3.       Put all the beans, vegetable, and mackerel out of water, put them aside, but save the soup.

4.       Pound the chilli in a mortar well, then add mackerel, beans and egg plants, and pound them together again.

5.       Add sesame, fish sauce, and pound them gently

6.       The mixture will look like a paste, and then add some soup from the pot but not too much.

7.       Put the salad in a bowl garnish with green onion, serve with steamed sticky rice       

Benefit

          Long beans or “Yard Long Been” has high calcium, phosphorus, and help our body to absorb iron better. It has fiber which can be dissolved in water, this make us feel full longer than normal. It is good for people who are on diet. Long been also help to decrease the cholesterol in blood.  

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