“Khao Chae” is a refreshing and healthy Thai dish that quenches the heat.
Khao Chae is one of the most popular traditional Thai dishes during the summer months. As it is a refreshing dish with a variety of ingredients that help cool down the body. Khao Chae usually consists of cooked rice soaked in cold water. Until it is completely cooled, and is served with a variety of side dishes.
History of Khao Chae
Khao Chae is a Thai food that originated from the Mon culture. It is considered an important food in the Songkran tradition. On Maha Songkran Day (April 13) of every year, the Mon people will prepare a complete set of Khao Chae to offer to the monks and the Songkran Goddess for good fortune. This tradition followed the Mon people who immigrated to Thailand, so Thai people have known Khao Chae ever since.
During the reign of King Rama V, Khao Chae was designated as a royal food and was favored by the King. At first, Khao Chae was just a royal food that was not well-known to the common people, but later it became widely popular among all classes of society.
What is Khao Chae?
It would not be entirely correct to say that Khao Chae is a เล่นบาคาร่า UFABET เว็บตรง ค่าคอมสูง Thai dish, because Khao Chae originally came from the Mon people. Khao Chae consists of cooked rice from which the slimy parts have been scrubbed off, leaving only the hard parts (so that when water is added to the water, it won’t be cloudy), fragrant water from candle smoke, and floating flowers such as jasmine, burnt ylang-ylang, rose, or champaca. It is eaten with six side dishes.
Side dishes for Khao Chae
A truly complete Khao Chae must have 6 types.
- Shrimp paste from kapi, but if you don’t have any, you can use shrimp paste instead. Make shrimp paste balls by pounding them together with galangal, lemongrass, fingerroot, onions, grilled catfish, and sugar. Then stir-fry until the sugar becomes sticky and can be formed into balls. When you’ve formed them into balls, coat them in flour and fry them.
- Sweet fish from Phetchaburi will taste delicious.
- Bell peppers stuffed with pork, garlic, pepper and coriander root.
- Pickled Turnip
- Stuffed Onions
- Shredded pork
How to make Khao Chae
- Take old jasmine rice and cook it until it is half-cooked and then rub it in a winnowing basket with water until the rice grains are clear.
- Steam the rice until cooked and pour it into a winnowing basket to cool. Then pour it into a clay pot and heat it with candles to make it fragrant.
- Make jasmine water by boiling water, turn off the heat and add jasmine flowers for fragrance.
- Prepare a variety of side dishes, including stuffed shallots with shrimp paste and other ingredients according to your preference.
Benefits of Khao Chae
In addition to the cool water in fragrant Khao Chae that will make us feel refreshed, the ingredients such as fingerroot, galangal, lemongrass, onions, and pickled turnip also help with digestion, moisturize the skin, balance the body back to normal, reduce peeling lips, dry lips, cracked lips, and mouth ulcers. And of course, the fragrant smell of Khao Chae also helps us relieve stress very well.
For those who have never eaten Khao Chae , it’s not too late to try it. In addition to being both delicious and nutritious, it is also considered a way to help preserve Thai food for future generations to enjoy.