
If you like food that's a bit of a challenge then this is for you. These are steamed pancakes, with a pancake mix containing sweet potato, filled with a pork, onion and beansprout filling. It's quite a challenge because the pancake is softened by the sweet potato and the fillings tend to poke holes in it, unless you are very very careful. The best way to make this dish is with a Thai steamer. Tie a clean cloth over the top of the steamer and make the pancake on the surface as shown in this photograph:

Ingredients
150 gms Rice Flour
2 Tablespoons Cassava Starch
400 ml Water
40 gms Sweet Potato
50 gms Pork Mince
2 Tablespoons Chopped Coriander
1 Tablespoon Chopped Spring Onion
1 Tablespoon Chopped Garlic
40 gms Soya Beansprouts
2 Tablespoons Light Soy Sauce
1 Teaspoon Salt
1/4 Teaspoon White Pepper
3 Tablespoons Oil
Equipment
Steam Pan
White Cloth To Fit Over Steampan
String for Tying
Ladle
Metal Spatula
Preparation
1. Steam the sweet potato to precook it.
2. Mix the pork mince with the garlic, salt, light soy sauce, spring onion, beansprouts and coriander then fry with oil until the pork is cooked.
3. Mix the flour & starch together with the water, add the sweet potato and blend until smooth. If you have a hand blender this is easier, you want the sweet potato completely blended into the mix.
4. Put water into the steaming pan, cover the lid with the cloth and tie it tightly over the top with the string. Put the pan onto to heat. Be careful not to burn the cloth, if the cloth is getting hot, you can spray water on it.
5. Ladle some of the pancake mixture onto the cloth and spread it out into a circle.
6. Put a lid over it and let it steam for a minute.
7. Spoon some of the mince mixture into the centre.
8. Using a metal spatula carefully (very carefully!) lift the edges of the pancake and fold them over the mixture.
9. Then place it on a serving plate with sweet sauce, mint and chillies.
Ingredients
for Sweet Sauce
50 ml Water
4 Tablespoons Brown Sugar
1 Teaspoon Dried Flaked Chillies
3 Tablespoons Fish Sauce
1 Tablespoon Lemon Juice
2 Tablespoons Crushed or Chopped Toasted Peanuts
1 Teaspoon Chopped Coriander Leaves
Preparation
1. Boil the brown sugar with water until sugar dissolves.
2. Add the fish sauce, flaked chillies, crunshed peanut and cook for 1 minute.
3. Leave it to cool, then add the lemon juice, and chopped coriander leaves.



Comments (3)
Appon...
Thank you for your website!
And double thanks for your recipe for
Koa Griemp Pak Mor. I have been on a
search for this delightful dish since
I first ate it in a Thai restaurant
in Los Angeles 30 years ago!
At least 20 chefs at Thai restaurants
(around the country) have agreed with
me that it tastes super, but all say
it is way difficult to make.
So here is my question: How can the
recipe be modified to make it easier
to make, even if not quite "the real
thing"?
It seems from what you wrote that
the steaming of the wrapper is the
tough part.
My idea---which I am asking you to
affirm or improve---is to serve the
filling in a crepe or blini type
pancake.
What are your thoughts, please?
From Fresno, Calif., where we
have a dozen Thai restaurants,
Marshall
[Appon]
It's not the difficult with the proper equipment and a few practice trials, it is only because I could not get a fine enough mesh cloth that I had more difficulty than usual. So I don't see what you would gain that couldn't be gained by a few practice runs.
Posted by Marshall Fritz | December 20, 2006 7:01 PM
Posted on December 20, 2006 19:01
Appon....
Thank you for the prompt response.
There must be something else, then,
that prevents such a delightful dish
from being more widely available in
Thai restaurants in America.
What is it that makes the dish
difficult to serve in a Thai
restaurant?
Again,
[Appon]
I don't think people know to ask for it, so they don't make it.
Posted by Marshall Fritz | December 23, 2006 4:49 PM
Posted on December 23, 2006 16:49
Appon...
Happy New Year!
Please don't consider me a pest, but
I wonder if you have ever made the
dish?
And, I wonder if you can think of
ways to simplify it?
Thank you.
Marshall in Fresno
PS... How might it be in a crepe
rather than the steamed pancake?
[Appon]
Yes, that is mine in the photograph. Keep experimenting, it is quite easy once you get the hang of it. There is no need to switch to crepes or other items!
Posted by Marshall Fritz | December 30, 2006 9:52 PM
Posted on December 30, 2006 21:52