Thai
Tam Taeng (Cucumber Tam)
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Tam Taeng (Cucumber Tam) is Thai home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the fresh side and the cooked vegetable. 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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Cut the cucumber into bite-size chunks.
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Pound the garlic and chilies in a mortar until broken down.
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Add the dried shrimp and roasted peanuts and bruise lightly.
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Add the cucumber and pound gently while tossing.
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Season with the lime juice, fish sauce and palm sugar.
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Toss to combine and serve right away, the easiest tam to make with nothing special in the house.
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Serve it with
A Thai dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Tam Taeng (Cucumber Tam), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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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. Tam Taeng (Cucumber Tam) carries peanuts, shellfish, and fish. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | Yes | Ajat (Cucumber Relish) |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | Yes | Ajat (Cucumber Relish) |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | Yes | Ajat (Cucumber Relish) |
| 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
- 170 kcal
- Protein
- 7 g
- Carbs
- 20 g
- Fat
- 7 g
- Fiber
- 2 g
- Sugar
- 11 g
- Sodium
- 790 mg
- Saturated fat
- 1 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Tam Taeng (Cucumber Tam) takes about 15 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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