Another nice easy recipe. All you need is rice and a steamer. We used Basamati, but you can use any glutinous rice.

Just boil the rice for 5 minutes, chuck it in the steamer and steam for 30 minutes – job done!

Something we whipped up yesterday. Give it a go! We reckon it’s about 350 calories (mainly because it’s fried) we made it to go with a Cheap Thai Fish Recipe.

• 4 medium potatos
• 1 red chilli chopped small
• half handful of chopped corriander chopped up
• Good knob of ginger, chopped finely
• 2 x tablespoons of mayonnaise
• 2 x Garlic cloves, chopped finely
• 1/4 leek chopped small (spring onions would be better)
• A table spook of plain flour
• A beaten egg
• oil for frying

Ok, this is what you do – it’s easy peasy!

1. Boil/ steam potatoes to make mash.

2. Chuck everything in and mix it all up.

3. You now need to let it cool down, I spread it on a plate and refridgerated it because I didn’t have much time.

4. Make cakes/ balls and fry in HOT oil.

It takes about 10-ish minutes per side, just cook it until it’s light (golden) brown. If it all goes wrong you’ll end up with Thai Mashed Potato, but hey it all tastes the same.

If you manage to keep the cakes in tact, use kitchen towel to get rid of some of the grease and serve with some sweet chilli dipping sauce.

Last night we served this with: Thai Style Fish;  Sticky Thai Rice

This is an awesome recipe – really cheap, easy and full of flavour. We served this with Thai Potato Cakes and Thai Sticky rice. The whole meal took about an hour (I’m sure it could be done far quicker. If you’re doing this as a whole meal, then put the fish and sticky rice on first, they’ll cook away without any intervention for 30 minutes. Then fry the potato cakes 20 mins before serving.

So here’s the recipe:-

• 2 bits of fish (we used really cheap frozen cod cake things but you can use any white fish you like)
• 1 red chilli (chopped small)
• 1 good knob of ginger (chopped up small – about the size of your thumb)
• 2 shallots chopped
• 2 tablespoons of soya sauce
• 2 tablespooks of lemon juice
• 2 cloves of garlic chopped

Nice and easy this one,

- Put the fish side by side on a large square of foil

- Mix up the chopped ingredients and spread over the fish

- Pour on the soy sauce and lemon juice.

- Wrap the parcels so there’s enough room at the top of the parcel for the steam to circulate.

Put in the oven on 190 for about 30 min’s. It will come out flavour-filled and divinely succulent.

We served this with: Thai Potato Cakes;  Thai Sticky Rice