Atho – the Burmese Food

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This Atho recipe is a very interesting one and very popular Burmese Chennai street food. This recipe is always a special street food for the Bachelors. This recipe is a little bit of a cold dish moreover looks similar to a salad and it is for sure very pleasant tasting.

Atho Ingredients

Noodles – 200 gms
Pinch of Food Color
Garlic
Onion
Shredded Cabbage – 1 cup
Carrot – 1 no. grated
Juice of 1 Lemon
Sesame oil – 2 Tsp
Tamarind Water – 1 Tbsp
Chili Flakes
Salt Water
Fried Crackers
Chopped Coriander leaves
Water
Oil
Salt

Method

First step is to boil the noodles. Boil the water with salt and a pinch of food colour.
Once the water as come to boil add the noodles.
Usually the noodles in the atho are nice orange colour. That is the reason we have added a food colour to give orange color to the dish.
Adding food colour is completely optional. If you don’t need you can skip that step.
Once the noodle is cooked, strain them and drizzle a little bit of oil so that the noodles do not stick up each other.
Next step is to deep fry some garlic pieces, and onion separately. Let them turn to nice golden brown colour and also it should be crispy.
Now all the elements for the atho is ready and lets mix everything and prepare the atho.
Take a nice large bowl, first add the cooked and cooled noodles, next add some sliced onions, add shredded cabbage and grated carrot.
To that add a juice on one lemon, to tablespoon of sesame oil, tamarind water one spoon.
This tamarind water gives you a nice tangy flavour to the noodles. Add few chilli flakes according to your taste.
Add salt water to the all the ingredients according to the taste you require.
The next ingredient is a interesting one and give a crunchy feel to the recipe, the fried crackers. Add Fried Crackers and few chopped coriander leaves.
Finally add the fried garlic and onion to the bowl. Mix everything nicely. Make sure the noodles are not broken.
Check for the seasoning at this point. The exciting Burmese atho is ready to be served.