Thai
Sai Ua (Grilled Northern Thai Sausage)
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Sai Ua (Grilled Northern Thai Sausage) is Thai home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Coil the sausage on a rack over medium charcoal, or lay it in a dry frying pan over medium low heat.
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Cook slowly, turning every few minutes, until the casing is browned and blistered and the inside is cooked through and no longer pink, 12 to 15 minutes; high heat splits the casing before the middle is done.
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Rest for 2 minutes, then slice on the diagonal into bite-size pieces.
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Serve with sticky rice, thin slices of young ginger, fresh chilies and cucumber, the way a Chiang Mai family puts it beside a nam prik. Sai ua is bought from the market by the coil; most recipes season it with shrimp paste, so check if anyone avoids shellfish.
Serve it with
A Thai dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Sai Ua (Grilled Northern Thai Sausage), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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Something to sip
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What it is eaten with
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Sai Ua (Grilled Northern Thai Sausage) carries shellfish and fish. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | Yes | Jok Moo (Rice Congee with Pork Meatballs) |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | Yes | Jok Moo (Rice Congee with Pork Meatballs) |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 340 kcal
- Protein
- 18 g
- Carbs
- 9 g
- Fat
- 26 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sugar
- 2 g
- Sodium
- 910 mg
- Saturated fat
- 10 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Sai Ua (Grilled Northern Thai Sausage) takes about 20 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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