Galloping Horses -- Vegetarian Version

Recipe Ingredients

1 1/2 tablespoons	22ml	Garlic - chopped
1 1/2 teaspoons	7.5ml	Cilantro root - chopped
1 teaspoon	5ml	Sake
16		Peppercorns - whole or ground
4 tablespoons	60ml	Vegetable oil
10 oz	284g	Fresh shiitake mushrooms - - thinly sliced
		Seasonings
2 tablespoons	30ml	Soy sauce
1 1/2 tablespoons	22ml	Sugar
3/4 cup	109g / 3.8oz	Peanuts - chopped
1 cup	237ml	Pineapple - peeled (large)
		Garnish
3		Red chili peppers - seeded &
		Cut into slivers
		Fresh cilantro leaves

Recipe Instructions

Using a blender or mortar & pestle, blend the garlic, cilantro roots, sake & peppercorns into a paste. Add the vegetable oil to a skillet over medium heat. Add the paste & stir-fry until the aroma is released, a few seconds. Add the shiitake & stir-fry until cooked.

Add all the seasonings & fry until the sugar is blended into the mixture. Remove from the heat & let cool.

Slice pineapple into 1/2" thick rings & then cut the rings into 1/2" X 1 1/2" chunks.

Put a small amount of the cooled stir-fry mixture on each pineapple chunk. Decorate each "horse" with a few slivers of chili & a cilantro leaf.

VARIATION: Replace the pineapple with either navel oranges or firm avocado slices.

Puangkram C. Schmitz & Michael J. Worman, "Practical Thai Cooking"

Source:
July 1993 issue of Bon Appetit

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