In the latest entry on Immigrant Kitchens Lindsay Sterling learns how to make Cambodian Curry Soup from Makara Meng (read the recipe and see the photos).
It was there that Makara told me this story, in — as a very strange God would have it – the rice aisle. Because it’s what I do, I asked her if she would teach me a dish from her homeland. This Cambodian curry is a dish she and her mother made in her childhood before all that hell broke loose. Today the two of them make it, still together, in South Portland for family birthday parties. It’s bone-in chicken pieces, eggplant, yam, green beans and onion wedges all covered and wading in a thick red sauce.