Yaam pla dook (crispy fried catfish)

Yield: 8 Servings

Ingredients:

2 lb Catfish fillets
2 c Oil vegetable; for frying
2 Mangos

Instructions:

unripe (green) -peeled seeded julienned 10 Garlic cloves; sliced thin 4 tb Oil vegetable 1 tb Ginger; finely shredded 2 tb Sugar brown 2 tb Fish sauce (Nam Pla) 2 tb Lime juice 2 Chili peppers red; sliced -thin 4 tb Coriander leaves Steam fish fillets (in steamer!) for 8 minutes until just opaque and just tender. Meanwhile fry garlic in 4T oil until crisp set aside. Heat oil (2 cups) in wok over medium heat fry fish until crisp and well browned. Drain on paper towels set aside. Mix mangoes garlic ginger in small bowl. Mound mixture in center of serving platter. Surround with fried fish. Combine sugar fish sauce lime juice in small bowl stir until sugar dissolves. Sprinkle most of mixture over mango mixture and remainder over the fish. Garnish with chili peppers and coriander leaves. Heavan thai-wise ...