Thai Recipes

• Green curry - Perhaps the best-known Thai curry outside of the country. Green curry is green in color, flavored with coconut, green chillies, and Thai basil, and contains vegetables as well as chicken, fish, shrimp or other seafood.
  
  
  
• Yellow curry - This is a curry that gets its yellow color from fresh tumeric. As well as tumeric, the curry also contains black mustard seeds, cumin, nutmeg, brown sugar, kaffir lime leaves, lime juice, coconut milk and fish sauce.
  
  
• Red curry - As the name implies, a curry that is red in color. Red curry gains its very hot (spicy) flavour, as well as its color, from copious use of red chillies.
  
  
• Pad Thai - This popular dish is a tasty form of fried rice noodles. The noodles are cooked with fish sauce, sugar, lime or tamarind, peanuts and egg, and then mixed with chicken, tofu or seafood.
  
  
• Pad see ew - This dish consists of noodles with noodles with thiny sliced meat (pork or chicken), stir-fried and flavored with fish sauce.
  
  
• Satay - Satay is grilled meat (usually chicken or pork) that is cooked on skewers and served with cucumber salad and peanut sauce. This dish is originally from Indonesia, but it has become a popular dish in Thailand, especially as a street food.
  
  
  
• Som tam - A popular salad made from grated papaya. There are several regional variations of this dish - the salad may include peanuts, shrimps and palm sugar, or salted fish, eggplant, and long beans, or salted black crab.
  
  
• Tom yam - A hot and sour soup made with shrimp or other seafood, or chicken.
  
  
• Gai pad khing - A Thai favorite, this dish is basically fried chicken with vegetables and sliced ginger.

• Recipes and Cookbooks
  
  
• Thai Recipes & Cookbooks

The Best of Vietnamese & Thai Cooking: Favorite Recipes from Lemon Grass Restaurant and Cafes By Mai Pham Three Rivers Press Released: 1995-10-11 Paperback (288 pages) List Price: $22.95* Lowest New Price: $5.00* Lowest Used Price: $5.00* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 19:58 Pacific 9 Mar 2010 More Info) Click Here ISBN13: 9780761500162 Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product Description: Light, Fresh, Exotic, and Delicious! Tangy, sweet, and savory traditional dipping sauces. Mouthwatering soups. Innovative stir-fries. The Best of Vietnamese & Thai Cooking offers just that—the very best! Weaving a fascinating memoir amidst her splendid recipes, Mai Pham recreates the almost magical reverence with which food was prepared and enjoyed in the Vietnam and Thailand of her childhood. Inside she discloses the secrets to preparing her personal favorites—delicious dishes such as: Firecracker Prawns • Minty Thai Chicken Salad Hot and Spicy Chicken with Lemon Grass • Spicy Red Beef Curry Crispy Spring Rolls • Eggplant and Broccoli in Ginger Spicy Thai Cucumber Salad • Rice Paper-Wrapped Salad Rolls Bangkok Beef with Basil • Lemon Grass Stir-Fried Jasmine Rice Vegetarian Pad Thai • Perfectly Roasted Peanuts • Thai Tea Evocative, lyrical, and eloquent, The Best of Vietnamese & Thai Cooking is more than a collection of great recipes—it’s a pleasure to read.

Popular Thai Cusine By Sisamon Kongpan Sangdad Books Paperback Lowest Used Price: $759.31* *(As of 19:58 Pacific 9 Mar 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: You'll find 111 of your favorite Thai recipes like Satay, Spring Rolls, Pad Thai, Thai Curry and more in this excellent cookbook. Each recipe is laid out with step-by-step photos and directions with a beautiful full page photo of the finished dish.

Foolproof Thai Cooking: Popular and Easy Recipes from the World's Favorite Asian Chef (Foolproof Cooking Series) By Ken Hom Hylas Publishing Hardcover (290 pages) List Price: $19.95* Lowest New Price: $5.86* Lowest Used Price: $2.50* *(As of 19:58 Pacific 9 Mar 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Ken Hom describes the basic techniques needed to recreate authentic Thai food and demonstrates 40 of the best-known dishes with step-by-step instructions. Photographs accompany every step from start to finish. Ken's foolproof instructions will guarantee excellent results every time ­- whether you choose simple Pad Thai noodles, a Sour and Spicy Shrimp Soup or the more elaborate Red Duck Curry.

Thai Home Cooking: Quick, Easy and Delicious Recipes to Make at Home By Robert Carmack Apple Press Paperback (128 pages) List Price: $20.65* Lowest New Price: $65.41* Lowest Used Price: $40.44* *(As of 19:58 Pacific 9 Mar 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Simple step-by-step instructions, with photographs, and an extensive guide to Thai ingredients make it easy to prepare vibrant salads, delicious main dishes, refreshing drinks and exotic desserts. Alongside the familiar curries are Penang curry, steamed fish in banana leaves and gai ying chicken.