Sambal Oelek Kapoon

[zena]

This is the way I've been making my kapoon.  The kids and even my husband eats this.  My youngest loves it!  They don't like it heavy with the red curry.

[Fancee]

Looks good!

Do you put coconut milk in it, too?

[zena]

Yes, there is coconut milk added.

[zena]

Oh no...this is real kapoon.  It is basically kapoon without the curry paste but with Samba Oelek.  It's just not too spicy (or oily) because my little one can't eat spicy stuff but she still likes the flavor of the broth.  I don't put any fish sauce 'cause they don't like fish sauce and they don't like adding herbs so the flavor has to stand on its own.  I only add the herbs for myself.  My oldest will not eat boiled chicken in broth but she loves my kapoon.

I have had the kapoon you are talking about at a cousin's house and I can't stand it 'cause it's pretty much like eating chicken in chicken broth with noodles.

[can]

kapoon and pho are to die for. looks great. I love my noodles spicy. 

[thePoster]

I like mine super red.

[SummerBerry]

I do with chicken, pork, etc. whatever I have that is available.  My kids like those quail eggs.  I start using my mom homemade curry that she grind up and fried.  I'm cutting back on eating kapoon.




With quail eggs........

[zena]

Looks delicious, Summerberry.  I'm lazy so I don't add a lot of extra stuff like meatballs and eggs.  I like it quick and simple (like everything else in my life, except art...'cause you can't rush art) so I do just the very basic with the most amount of taste.  And really, it's 'cause the kids don't eat kapoon with anything. They don't like bamboo either, but once I made it without bamboo, and they said it didn't taste right so now they're willing to put up with the bamboo for the taste.  They just scoop it off to the side or give it to me to eat. 

Speaking of quail eggs, I've made sweet pork with quail eggs before.  It was okay.  For some reason I don't like quail eggs so much.  I had a friend who made kao piek with quail eggs and I ended up scooping out all the eggs and tossing them 'cause I just don't like them.  I haven't given up on them though.  Just maybe wasn't in the mood those times.