Vegan Cambodian Wedding Day Dip Recipe

Check out our Vegan Cambodian Wedding Day Dip Recipe and you may well be rewarded with one of the nicest things you’ll ever eat.

It’s a spicy, creamy, peanutty, mushroomy dip with some serious South East Asian flavours going on. And it’s delicious.

Our Vegan Cambodian Wedding Day Dip Recipe uses all these exciting South East Asian ingredients and more

Our Vegan Cambodian Wedding Day Dip Recipe comes courtesy of Chamkar Vegetarian Restaurant who are fetaured in our Vegan Guide to Siem Reap. Make it and you’ll understand why people who visit this popular Siem Reap vegetarian restaurant, always talk about this dish. We’ve tweaked it a little after cooking it but trust us, it’s still essentially the same.

Vegan Cambodian Wedding Day Dip Recipe

Ingredients

250g Oyster mushrooms, finely chopped.
50g Kroeung (Cambodian yellow curry paste, do not be tempted to use Indian curry powder. you need to use a proper yellow curry paste. Luckily we wrote another recipe for you here.)
2 small bird eye chillies with seeds removed, finely chopped.
2 dessert spoons olive oil.
1 tsp palm sugar (use brown sugar as an alternative).
1 can (375ml) of good quality pure coconut milk (avoid brands with stabilisers and additives).
25g onion, finely chopped.
50g of plain peanuts (no skin).

Instructions

Start by toasting your peanuts in a dry frying pan over a low to medium heat. Remove from the pan and crush roughly in a pestle and mortar. Put to one side.
Put your oil in the frying pan and heat to a medium high heat.
Fry the onion and oyster mushrooms for about 2 minutes and then add the chillies, palm sugar and yellow curry paste. Reduce the heat to medium and cook for 3 or 4 minutes.
Add coconut milk and toasted peanuts. Stir well and simmer for 1-2 minutes to thicken.
Season with salt and black pepper.
Transfer to blender and blend until you have a rustic, hummus like consistency.
Serve it warm with raw vegetables, slices of fresh baguette and some chopped red chillies.
(OPTIONAL) Imagine you’re having your very own Cambodian vegan adventure.