Burmese food is at the heart of Burmawala Kitchen. These guides explain the dishes, the ingredients and the flavours behind Aamna’s Burmese recipes, so you can cook them at home with confidence.
What Is Burmese Food? A Guide to Burmese Cuisine
What Burmese food is, what it tastes like and the dishes to know, with Burmese food names in English, from mohinga and lahpet to danbauk and shwe yin aye.
What Is Thami Letto? The Burmese Rice Topper Explained
What thami letto is, what's in Aamna's jars, how it tastes, Fish or Vegan, and how to use it on rice and noodles.
Best Burmese Recipes to Try at Home
All of Aamna's Burmese recipes, grouped into noodles, salads, curries, Indo-Burmese favourites and sweets.
Burmese Ingredients Guide: What to Buy in the UK
What to buy for Burmese cooking, what each ingredient does, which of Aamna's recipes use it and where to find it in the UK.
Burmese Desserts: Traditional Sweets and Recipes
Burmese sweets explained, from kaala halwa and coconut jelly to sanwin makin, plus the classics from Burma.
Burmese Salads: A Guide to Thoke
Burmese salads explained: what thoke means, how lahpet and thami letto are made, and the salads you will find on stalls in Burma.
Burmese Noodles: Mohinga, Ohn No Khao Swe and More
A guide to Burmese noodles: mohinga, ohn no khao swe, mont di and noodle salads, with tips for cooking them at home in the UK.
Burmese Curry: How It Differs From Indian Curry
What makes a curry Burmese: the onion, garlic and ginger base, the oil that rises to the top, and three of Aamna’s Burmese curries to cook.
Burmese Pickled Tea Leaves: What Lahpet Is
Burmese pickled tea leaves explained: how lahpet is made, how it is served, what it tastes like and where to buy it in the UK.
Khow Suey vs Ohn No Khao Swe
Khow suey and ohn no khao swe compared: how Burma’s coconut chicken noodles became a Memon and Karachi favourite, and how to make them.
Or start with a recipe
If you’d rather get cooking, these three are a good place to begin.
Mohinga: Burmese Fish Noodle Soup
Mohinga, Burma's national dish: a fragrant fish and lemongrass soup with rice noodles and crunchy toppings.
Lahpet: Burmese Tea Leaf Salad
Burmese tea leaf salad: pickled tea leaves with roasted peanuts and crunchy beans. Bold, savoury and vegan.
Ohn No Khau Swe
Burmese coconut chicken noodles, topped with crispy rice noodles, fresh garnishes and homemade chilli oil.
