Thai food is well known for diversity of ingredients, complex spiciness and intricate flavors and aromas. Many Thai food recipes are even prepared with a blend of herbal ingredients that are purported to have health benefits.
The following list is a top 10 favorite Thai food recipes that you must not miss. The consideration and ranking is based on the popularity, uniqueness and authenticity of these Thai delicacies.
Here are the winners of my Top 10 Thai Food Recipes.
Gai Pad Met Mamuang (Stir-Fried Chicken with Cashew Nuts) is a slightly sweet and salty chicken fried with crunchy cashew nuts is aptly satiating for children or beginners who are not used to spices.
Por Pia Tord (Fried Spring Roll) is one of the most popular Thai food recipes and appetizers, these spring rolls are crispy pastries with fried vegetable fillings and is served with a special dip prepared from Japanese apricot.
Panaeng (Meat in Spicy Coconut Cream) can be cooked using either pork, chicken or beef. It tastes like Thai red curry but the coconut milk sauce is thicker and richer. It is best served with warm steamed rice.
Som Tam (Spicy Papaya Salad) literally means “Sour Pounded”, is a spicy salad made from a mix of fresh vegetables including shredded unripened papaya, yardlong beans and tomato. Som Tam is unique that the spicy dressing and salad vegetables are pounded and mixed in the mortar using a pestle and is usually served with grilled chicken and sticky rice.
Moo Sa-Te (Grilled Pork Sticks with Turmeric) This tantalizing sweet-flavored grilled pork sticks are refined with rich, juicy sauce made of turmeric and curry powder, and is usually served with two saucy dips.
Tom Yam Gai (Spicy Chicken Soup) is a clear chicken soup seasoned with a blend of chili, lime and fish sauce. The broth is simmered with Thai herbs as lemon grass, shallot and galangal which give it a unique and satiating aroma.
Kang Keaw Wan Gai (Green Chicken Curry) Kang Kiew Wan, literally translated as “Sweet Green Curry”, is nicely sweet and slightly spicy and tastes very delightful with a proper blend of the spiciness from green curry chili paste, blandness from coconut milk, sweetness of sugar and saltiness of fish sauce. It is usually eaten with steamed rice or served as a sauce to rice noodle known as “Kanom Jeen” a more ’spaghetti-like’ noodle.
Pad Thai (Fried Noodle) Pad Thai flaunts the authenticity of Thai food recipes in using only fresh and best ingredients and the well-balancing of the five fundamental flavors. The classic Pad Thai is a stir-fried noodle with eggs, fish sauce, tamarind juice, red chili pepper plus bean sprouts, shrimp and tofu and garnished with crushed peanuts and coriander while another style is relatively dry and lightly-flavored.
Tom Yam Goong (Spicy Shrimp Soup) is truly one of a kind with its fierce spiciness and sourness and a blatant use of fragrant herbs including galangal, lemon grass, kaffir lime leaves, shallot, tamarind and chili pepper. There are two styles of Tom Yam; the clear spicy soup and thick spicy soup. Tom Yam is very versatile and can be made with prawns, chicken, fish and mix of seafood, and mushroom.
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