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Food - Ingredients

 

Ingredients used in Burmese dishes are often fresh. many fruits are used in conjunction with vegetables in many dishes. Some of the common ingredients are as follows

 

 

Asiatic pennywort (myin hkwa ywet) Asparagus (ka nyut) Bamboo shoots (hmyit)
Banana stem (nga pyaw u) Bean sprouts (pe bin bauk) Beef (a me tha) (beef curry pictured)
Bitter gourd (kyet hin ga thee) Black eyed peas (pe loon) Bombay duck (a bye gyauk)
Butter Beans (htaw bat pe) Carrots (hka gyet u) Cabbage (gor bi douk)
Catfish (nga hku) Cauliflower (paan gor bi) Cha-om, Acacia pennata leaves (soo bouk ywet)
Chayote (gorakha thee) Chicken (kyet tha) (chicken curry) Chickpea (kala be)
Chickpea flour (pe hmont) Chinese Cabbage (monnyin byu) Chilli (nga youk thee), dried as well as green
Coconut (oun thee) Coriander leaves (nan nan bin) Chinese chives (ju hpu), roots (ju myit)
Cucumber (tha hkwa thee) Duck (be tha) Egg (kyet u), duck egg (be u), quail egg (ngoun u)
Eggplant (hka yan thee) Fermented bean paste (poun yeigyi) Fermented bean sprouts (pe di gyin)
Fermented sesame cake (hnan bat chin) Fish (nga) Fish sauce (ngan bya yei)
Fish paste (nga pi sayn za) Garlic (kyet thun phyu) Ginger (gyin)
Goat mutton (hseik tha) Glutinous Rice (kao hnyin), purple variety (nga cheik) Gourd (bu thee) and the young vine (bu nyunt)
Green Beans (pe thee) Haricot beans (pe gyi) Hilsa (nga tha lauk)
Kaffir lime (shauk thee), leaves (shauk ywet) Lemongrass (za ba lin) Lentils (pe ni lay or pe yaza)
Lettuce (sa lat ywet) Lime (than baya thee) Mahseer (nga gyinn)
Masala (Chicken Masala pictured) Mango (tha yet thee) green as well as ripe Mint (pusi nan)
Mooli or daikon (mon la u), pickled (mon la gyin) Mushrooms (hmo) Mustard greens (monnyin zayn) pickled (monnyin gyin)
Neem leaves, Margosa (ta ma ywet) Okra, Lady fingers (youn ba di thee) Onion (kyet thun ni)
Peanut (myei be) Peanut oil (pe zi) Pepper (nga youk kaung)
Potato (a loo) Pork (wet tha) Prawns and shrimp (ba zun)
Pumpkin (shwe hpa yon thee) Urad dal, Black lentil (mat pe) Dried fish (nga chauk)
Dried shrimp (ba zun gyauk) Rice flour (hsan hmont) Ridged gourd (hka we thee)
Roselle leaves (chin baung ywet) Salted fish (nga hsa ne or nga pi gaung) Sambar (hsat tha)
Sesame seeds (hnan) Sesame Oil (hnan zi) Shrimp paste, belacan (hmyin nga pi)
Snake gourd (pe lin mwe) Sweet basil (pin zayn) Spring onions (kyet thun meik)
Tomatoes (hka yan gyin thee) Tamarind (ma gyi thee), ripe as well as green Tamarind leaves (ma gyi ywet)
Turmeric (sa nwin) Water spinach (ga zun ywet) Winter melon (kyauk hpa yon thee)

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