Over the Pchum Ben holiday I spent time with my friend's family in Battambang. Her sister gave me a bag of 3 ripe pineapples as I was boarding the bus home. So I invited Sokleak over for dinner to make one of my favorite foods: "Cha Manoa Saik Ko" (aka. Fried Pineapple with Beef). Because a table is never set in Cambodia with only one option, I also tried my hand at a recipe I saw prepared in the village of Battambang: Fried Duck Egg with Herbs (aka. not sure it translates!).
Fried Pineapple + Beef
1 onion sliced into strips
3-5 shallots of garlic crushed and minced
Beef (1 or 2 grams), thinly sliced
Pineapple, cut into triangle pieces (more about pineapple cutting methods later)
Soy Sauce
Fish Sauce
Oyster Sauce
Salt
First fry the garlic in some olive oil until almost brown. Then add the beef and cook quickly. Add onions. Add fish sauce + soy sauce + oyster sauce to taste, and salt. Fry all together until the onions are cooked. Finally add the pineapple and mix together.
Serve over rice. When we ate we ate a lot, but this could serve 2-4 people!
Fried Egg with "Sa-om"
This is easier yet, if you can find the ingredients. Normally this is made in the province, where the "sa-om" is picked from their gardens.
First, crack a duck egg (a chicken egg could probably work too) into a bowl, with some fish sauce and salt to taste, plus some sugar. Pick the leaves off of "sa-om" branches, cut, and add into egg mixture. Mix everything well. In a pan of oil, fry like you would an omelet.
Served with rice too.
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