I’m craving Thai food today and it’s a rainy day so a Thai soup sounds really good right now. The ‘soup of my day’ is Cucumber Stuffed with Ground Pork Soup. It reminds me of when we were young and this is one of the soups that children, who do not have tolerance for spicy food, can eat. Let me tell ya, it’s a tough crowd in Thailand if you don’t eat spicy food. If you tell the restaurant “not spicy”, somehow the dish always end up with a chili or two. Not spicy means less spicy. Our mom’s trick is to say “kids’ meal”. It always works! ha ha 🙂
Let’s cook some food!
Here are the ingredients for the group pork mixture, Golden Mountain Seasoning Sauce
Mix ground pork (or you can use ground chicken or turkey), minced garlic, 1 tablespoon Golden Mountain Seasoning Sauce
- 2 cucumbers
- 8 oz. ground pork
- ½ cup carrots (2 small carrots), cut into small round thin slices
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 tablespoon Golden Mountain Seasoning Sauce (or light soy sauce) plus more to taste
- 1 teaspoon Oyster Sauce
- ½ teaspoon ground pepper
- ¼ tsp baking powder (to make your pork tender)
- 32 oz. chicken stock
- cilantro leaves (for garnish)
- Mix ground pork (or you can use ground chicken or turkey), minced garlic, Golden Mountain Seasoning Sauce (or light soy sauce), Oyster Sauce, pepper, and baking powder together.
- Peel cucumbers, cut each into 3 pieces, use a melon baller to scoop out the seeds and make room for stuffing. Stuff the pork mixture inside the cucumbers. Use toothpicks to secure the pork from falling out during cooking process.
- Peel carrots and slice them into thin disks.
- Add chicken stock in a medium pot, medium high heat. When the stock is boiling, add stuffed cucumbers and carrots into the pot.
- If you have some pork left, make small balls and drop them into the soup. Stir it a few times while the soup is boiling for about 15-20 minutes, until the cucumbers and pork in the center are cooked, then turn the heat off. Remove those toothpicks before serving.
- Garnish with cilantro leaves and serve with some Jasmine rice or Quinoa.
Looks so delicious!!!
Thanks, Cupcake. Would you like to try? I have some leftover. 😁
yes I would LOVE to!!
Okie dokie. I’ll bring it to work tmrw. 😉
เก่งจังค่ะ (Great job).
ขอบคุณค่ะพี่จอย ง่ายๆค่ะ ถ้ายากหนูก็ทำไม่เป็นเหมือนกัน อิอิ (Thank you! It’s real easy. If it’s hard, I wouldn’t be able to. hee hee)
ชอบมากกก (Love it very much)
ทำให้น้องตรองกินเร้ว ขุ่นแม่แพร 😁 (You should make it for little Trong, Mommy.)
คราวหน้าใช้ปลาหมึกนะพี่มิ้ง อร่อยๆๆ (You should make stuffed squid next time. Delish.)
ได้เลยหนู อิอิ (Will do! Eh eh)