Blue Elephant Cooking School and Restaurant
Yam Ma-muang Koong Sod is called spicy and sour green mango salad with prawns in English, and it IS delicious! The dish is cool and refreshing. Also, it is easy to make. I learned how to make it at the Blue Elephant Cooking School and Restaurant in Bangkok, Thailand. Click on the link for the EASY recipe!!!
Want to know more about the cooking school? Click HERE for more information!
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What Is Yam Ma-muang Koong Sod?
Yam Ma-muang Koong Sod has various English translations. The Blue Elephant Cooking School and Restaurant calls it spicy and sour green mango salad with prawns. And the name is self-explanatory.
Because there is no standardized way of transliterating Thai words into English, Yam Ma-muang Koong Sod can also be spelled various ways. For example, yam can be spelled yum. And koong can be spelled kung. Thus, many restaurants and recipes spell it Yum Ma Muang Kung Sod.
Thai Cooking Class
I learned how to make Yam Ma-muang Koong Sod at the Blue Elephant Cooking School and Restaurant in Bangkok, Thailand.
Yam Ma-muang Koong Sod was one of four dishes that I learned how to make in a half-day culinary course in Royal Thai cookery at the popular cooking school.
The course included a trip to a nearby wet market to source ingredients and a gourmet lunch that the students prepared themselves in the class.
The dish is called spicy and sour green mango salad with prawns in English, and it was delicious! The dish is cool and refreshing.
The dish can be a bit spicy, but the level of spiciness can be adjusted by increasing or decreasing the amount of chilies used. If you’re afraid of heat, you can leave them out altogether.
The course included a trip to a nearby wet market to source ingredients and a gourmet lunch that the students prepared themselves in the class.
As a travel blogger, I was hosted by the school. I was one of several people – including at least one of travel blogger – in the class.
Easy Recipe for Spicy and Sour Green Mango Salad with Prawns
Ingredients
Ingredients for Salad
- 4 tablespoons grated raw green mango
- 4 pieces prawns (already poached in boiling water)
- 3 pieces shallots (peeled and finely sliced)
- 2 stems coriander leaves (cut))
- 1 tablespoon roasted grated coconut meat
- 1 tablespoon roasted peanuts (ground)
Ingredients for Salad Dressing
- 4 pieces bird's eye chilies
- 3-4 cloves garlic (peeled)
- 1 tablespoon fish sauce
- 1 tablespoons tamarind juice
- 1/2 tablespoon lime juice
- 1/2 tablespoon palm sugar
Garnish
- several coriander leaves
Instructions
Method
- Pound garlic and bird’s eye chilies together in a mortar; set aside
- Add fish sauce, lime juice, tamarind juice, palm sugar, and paste from mortar in a mixing bowl and mix well
- Add prawns, grated raw mango, coriander stem (chopped), sliced shallots, ground roasted peanut, and roasted coconut meat and toss gently
- Serve on a plate and garnish with coriander leaves
Nutrition
The Verdict
The class was lots of fun! And the Spicy and Sour Green Mango Salad with Prawns was refreshing and delicious.
Best of all, the dish was relatively easy to prepare. In fact, it would make a light and tasty lunch or dinner for one person. Otherwise, it would make an excellent first course as one of several dishes for two or more people dining together.
The Venue
As the name implies, the Blue Elephant Cooking School and Restaurant is both a cooking school and a restaurant. And it specializes in Royal Thai cuisine. There are outlets in both Bangkok in Phuket.
The Bangkok outlet is housed in a beautifully renovated structure that opened as a department store in 1903. It was totally renovated in 2002, reopening as the Blue Elephant Cooking School and Restaurant.
What to Know More?
- Click HERE for a detailed personal account of the course with LOTS of photos!
If You Are Visiting Thailand
Where
Blue Elephant Cooking School and Restaurant – 233 South Sathorn Road, Yannawa, Bangkok, Thailand. Tel: (66) 2-673-9353-8.
