Thai Wing Bean Spicy & Sour Salad (Yum Tua Puu)

Yum Tua Puu (yum too-uh poo) – Wing Bean Spicy and Sour Salad with Shrimp

My husband says this is one of the best things he has ever eaten in his life. You will probably like it too!

Wing Bean Spicy & Sour Salad Preparation

500 g. (about 1 lb.) Shrimp (peeled, de-veined)
250 g. (about 1/2 lb.) Minced pork
500 g. (1 lb.) Wing beans (Cut 0.5 cm – 1/4 inch)
10-15 Fresh red peppers (sliced)
5-10 dried red peppers (Fried)
4 tbsp. cut scallion (0.5 cm)
4-5 tbsp. cut coriander (1 cm)
12 tbsp. sliced red onion (or as much as you like)

300 ml (10 oz) Coconut Milk – I like the Chao Koh brand. 🙂
1 tsp. salt
4 tbsp. Chili paste for Tom Yum
Chili oil (Pantainorasingh Brand) – The effect on taste isn’t much, you can add as much as you like to make it red.
5 tbsp. Fish sauce
4 lemons
1/4 cup vegetable oil

Wing Bean Salad Cooking Instructions

1. Heat the water in the pot until it is boiling then add 1 tsp. salt. Prepare very cold water.

2. Drop the wing beans in boiling water and quickly remove them to soak in a bowl of cold water. This will help keep the color green after it is cooked.

3. After that, heat the water again. Then cook minced pork (5 minutes) and shrimp (1-2 minutes). Don’t cook shrimp too long, as it usually gets too hard if you do.

4. In a different pot, boil the coconut milk until it just starts to boil. Then turn off the fire.

5. Fry half of the sliced red onion you have until it turns yellow or a little brown then remove it. You can fry red onion as much as you want if you like to add more.

6. Now, prepare a big bowl to mix everything together. Add wing beans, shrimp, pork, sliced red peppers, scallion, coriander, and sliced red onion.

7. After that, add coconut milk, chili paste for Tom Yum, and chili oil. It doesn’t affect much of the taste, just put as much as you like to make the color red. Pantainorasingh is the brand I like for many different products they have but I don’t get paid for mentioning their products on my site. 😉

8. Add the fish sauce (Actually, I don’t remember how much I added. So, start with 5 tbsp. If the taste is not right, then add more later) The thing is, I add a big squeeze from the fish sauce bottle and say 2 or 5 tbsp. There is no exact amount though.. so, please add only a few if you don’t feel sure about this.

I am constantly checking the taste as I cook to see how the salt level is doing. Too much salt can ruin this (and any Thai dish!).

9. Add lemon juice. 🙂 And now mix it all up.

After a long ~~ (drag your voice here and make a high tone) long time I haven’t cooked at home because of my full-time job. My husband called it an OVERTIME job as I usually work almost 11 hours a day and it is also taking away my days off at the moment.

Last time I had a day off, I cooked this food as it is my friend’s favorite recipe. I have never cooked this one for my husband yet. It is always best to show him new food to eat after a long time eating dinner at Sawasdee restaurant which cooks food to order.

Vern orders Kao Phad, Pad Phak, and Pad Si Iw (pad see you) every time. After one year we have been eating there, the owner remembers us and can guess what Vern wants to eat by just looking into his eyes.

How sad is that? I have no time to cook anymore.

With this Wing Bean Salad, it takes me two hours to prepare. Haha! Because I like to cook and clean and read news and chat online at the same time. 🙂

It is worth waiting for? 🙂 that day Vern was in tears, and I was so happy to cook something for my husband too!

Update by Hubby: Joy made it again for me today! Wow, I haven’t had it in about six months. Seems even more delicious when I’ve waited that long. Truth is, there are so many delicious Thai foods to eat in this country, that I don’t usually miss my favorite dishes much.

Still, this is almost definitely my favorite Thai food to have for a meal. Joy uses big shrimp that are cooked perfectly. The wing beans are fresh and crunchy. There is very little oil. The coconut milk gives it a really special taste!

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