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Thai Recipes and Cookbooks
Thailand is now well-known in the West for its delicious food.
The country offers many delicious dishes flavored with
spices, lemon-grass or coconut.
Although known for offering strong flavours,
Thai meals always aim to achieve a balance
these five fundamental flavours
(spicy hot, sweet, sour, salty, and sometimes bitter).
In all honesty, Thailand is home not to just one cuisine - but to
several - each region of the country has its own preferred ingredients
and style of cooking; for example, lime juice is favored in the Northeast
of Thailand, whereas coconut milk and fresh tumeric
and common in the South.
As with most Southeast Asian countries, rice forms the building block
of much of the Thai diet. Fragrant jasmine rice is native to
Thailand, and is used in many dishes,
or served plain as an accompaniment.
Here are some common and popular Thai dishes:
- 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.
Here are some Thai cook books and recipe books:
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By Nancie McDermott
Chronicle Books
Paperback (168 pages)
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Now busy home cooks can bring the fantastic flavors of Thai cuisine into the kitchen with a simple trip to the grocery store. Nancie McDermott, experienced cook, teacher, and author of the best-selling cookbook Real Thai, presents this collection of 70 delicious recipes that focus on easy-to-find ingredients and quick cooking methods to whip up traditional Thai. With recipes like Crying Tiger Grilled Beef, Grilled Shrimp and Scallops with Lemongrass, Sticky Rice with Mangoes, and Thai Iced Tea, along with McDermott's highly practical array of shortcuts, substitutions, and timesaving techniques, anyone can prepare home-cooked authentic Thai meals -- as often as they like. |
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By Nancie McDermott
Chronicle Books
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Now busy home cooks can bring the fantastic flavors of Thai cuisine into the kitchen with a simple trip to the grocery store. Nancie McDermott, experienced cook, teacher, and author of the best-selling cookbook Real Thai, presents this collection of 70 delicious recipes that focus on easy-to-find ingredients and quick cooking methods to whip up traditional Thai. With recipes like Crying Tiger Grilled Beef, Grilled Shrimp and Scallops with Lemongrass, Sticky Rice with Mangoes, and Thai Iced Tea, along with McDermott's highly practical array of shortcuts, substitutions, and timesaving techniques, anyone can prepare home-cooked authentic Thai meals -- as often as they like. |
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By Mai Pham
Prima Lifestyles
Released: 1995-10-11
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Mai Pham has woven wonderful memories between the recipes of this beautiful book: memories of her childhood in Bangkok, her Vietnamese family and their reverence for good food, her husband's search for the best pho recipe in Saigon. The recipes themselves are light, healthy, and loaded with the unique flavors -- strong and delicate, tangy and mild, sweet and mouth-puckeringly sour, always exotic and delicious -- of Southeast Asia. Pham owns the Lemon Grass Restaurant and Cafes in Sacramento, and is a well-known teacher of Southeast Asian cooking. |
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By Mai Pham
Prima Lifestyles
Released: 1995-10-11
Paperback (288 pages)
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Mai Pham has woven wonderful memories between the recipes of this beautiful book: memories of her childhood in Bangkok, her Vietnamese family and their reverence for good food, her husband's search for the best pho recipe in Saigon. The recipes themselves are light, healthy, and loaded with the unique flavors -- strong and delicate, tangy and mild, sweet and mouth-puckeringly sour, always exotic and delicious -- of Southeast Asia. Pham owns the Lemon Grass Restaurant and Cafes in Sacramento, and is a well-known teacher of Southeast Asian cooking. |
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By Wendy Hutton & Masano Kawana
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From roadside to restaurant, Green Mangoes and Lemon Grass presents a mouthwatering culinary tour of Southeast Asia's most scrumptious food. Enjoy an abundance of different dishes from Southeast Asia's rich and varied cuisine, such as Singapore's fascinating cosmopolitan offerings, Thailand's sinfully spicy dishes or Vietnam's refreshingly healthy recipes.
Featuring expertly-written text recipes from Wendy Hutton, one of the stars of Asian cuisine, Green Mangoes and Lemon Grass will help you whip up an Asian festival of food in your very own kitchen! |
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By Wendy Hutton & Masano Kawana
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From roadside to restaurant, Green Mangoes and Lemon Grass presents a mouthwatering culinary tour of Southeast Asia's most scrumptious food. Enjoy an abundance of different dishes from Southeast Asia's rich and varied cuisine, such as Singapore's fascinating cosmopolitan offerings, Thailand's sinfully spicy dishes or Vietnam's refreshingly healthy recipes.
Featuring expertly-written text recipes from Wendy Hutton, one of the stars of Asian cuisine, Green Mangoes and Lemon Grass will help you whip up an Asian festival of food in your very own kitchen! |
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By Robert Carmack
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By Robert Carmack
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By Vatcharin Bhumichitr
Kyle Books
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Thai restaurateur and author, Vatcharin Bhumichitr, has created over 120 recipes that epitomize the best flavors of Thai cuisine, which can be prepared at home in 30 minutes or less. |
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By Vatcharin Bhumichitr
Kyle Books
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Thai restaurateur and author, Vatcharin Bhumichitr, has created over 120 recipes that epitomize the best flavors of Thai cuisine, which can be prepared at home in 30 minutes or less. |
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By Kasma Loha-unchit
Simon & Schuster
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More than a cookbook, Dancing Shrimp is both a rumination on how Thai food--the original fusion food, says author Kasma Loha-unchit--developed as a cuisine and a very thorough manual on how to properly prepare fresh fish, crustaceans, and mollusks in the Thai tradition. Filled with 125 tantalizing and sometimes challenging recipes, Loha-unchit covers not only basic cooking tenets but explores how to create dishes that balance the Thai people's love of the five primary flavors: salty, sweet, sour, bitter, and spicy. Many of the recipes feature flavors not common in Western cooking, but Loha-unchit teaches you how to create a savory meal in which the disparate tastes work in harmony. In addition to the recipes, there are chapters on Thailand's seafood culture, how to select and prepare seafood, preserved foods and flavoring ingredients (like fish sauce, a staple item), and techniques and equipment. For those unfamiliar with fish sauce or shrimp paste, she explains how they are made, her favorite brands, and where you can purchase them (there's a store index in the back). The recipes themselves are mouth-watering: Hot-and-Sour Shrimp Salad with Roasted Chilli Sauce, Lemon Grass, and Mint, Curried Mussels on the Half Shell with Flaked Crab, and Ginger-Tamarind Fish Soup, to name only a few. Though some of the recipes may seem daunting at first, Loha-unchit reminds us that "the wide range of variables makes Thai cooking exciting and Thai food both a simple and complex blend of invigorating flavors." After all, it's hard to resist Garlic-Black Bean Pan-Fried Red Snapper. Be sure to serve with a big pot of sticky white rice. --Dana Van Nest
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A heralded expert on Thai cooking serves up a tangy collection of seafood-focused recipes that highlight all the innovative tastes and techniques used by cooks throughout Thailand. The popularity of Pacific Rim cuisine is hitting an all-time high in America -- and the author of this easy-to-follow take on traditional Thai cooking is partly responsible. Kasma Loha-unchit first established her reputation as a premier expert on the delights of Thai cooking when her classic collection, It Rains Fishes, received the Best International Cookbook award from the International Association of Culinary professionals and was named the "favorite book of Southeast Asian cuisine" by renowned critic Narsai David. With Dancing Shrimp, Loha-unchit more than makes good on her initial promise, delivering a wholly unique amalgam of classic and original recipes featuring several exciting Western touches. While Dancing Shrimp is first and foremost a Thai cookbook, it is also a seafood book, offering a wealth of information on how to work with a variety of fish, shellfish, and mollusks. Demonstrating how Thai seafood cookery has diversified over seven centuries, this book includes 125 delicious recipes, from Crisped Catfish Salad with Sour Green Mango and Cashews to Tiger Prawns with Garlic and Chiles. As an instructor of Thai cooking and leader of tours to Thailand for fifteen years, no one is better suited than Loha-unchit to introduce the foods, techniques, and culture to both beginners and experienced cooks alike. |
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By Kasma Loha-unchit
Simon & Schuster
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More than a cookbook, Dancing Shrimp is both a rumination on how Thai food--the original fusion food, says author Kasma Loha-unchit--developed as a cuisine and a very thorough manual on how to properly prepare fresh fish, crustaceans, and mollusks in the Thai tradition. Filled with 125 tantalizing and sometimes challenging recipes, Loha-unchit covers not only basic cooking tenets but explores how to create dishes that balance the Thai people's love of the five primary flavors: salty, sweet, sour, bitter, and spicy. Many of the recipes feature flavors not common in Western cooking, but Loha-unchit teaches you how to create a savory meal in which the disparate tastes work in harmony. In addition to the recipes, there are chapters on Thailand's seafood culture, how to select and prepare seafood, preserved foods and flavoring ingredients (like fish sauce, a staple item), and techniques and equipment. For those unfamiliar with fish sauce or shrimp paste, she explains how they are made, her favorite brands, and where you can purchase them (there's a store index in the back). The recipes themselves are mouth-watering: Hot-and-Sour Shrimp Salad with Roasted Chilli Sauce, Lemon Grass, and Mint, Curried Mussels on the Half Shell with Flaked Crab, and Ginger-Tamarind Fish Soup, to name only a few. Though some of the recipes may seem daunting at first, Loha-unchit reminds us that "the wide range of variables makes Thai cooking exciting and Thai food both a simple and complex blend of invigorating flavors." After all, it's hard to resist Garlic-Black Bean Pan-Fried Red Snapper. Be sure to serve with a big pot of sticky white rice. --Dana Van Nest
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A heralded expert on Thai cooking serves up a tangy collection of seafood-focused recipes that highlight all the innovative tastes and techniques used by cooks throughout Thailand. The popularity of Pacific Rim cuisine is hitting an all-time high in America -- and the author of this easy-to-follow take on traditional Thai cooking is partly responsible. Kasma Loha-unchit first established her reputation as a premier expert on the delights of Thai cooking when her classic collection, It Rains Fishes, received the Best International Cookbook award from the International Association of Culinary professionals and was named the "favorite book of Southeast Asian cuisine" by renowned critic Narsai David. With Dancing Shrimp, Loha-unchit more than makes good on her initial promise, delivering a wholly unique amalgam of classic and original recipes featuring several exciting Western touches. While Dancing Shrimp is first and foremost a Thai cookbook, it is also a seafood book, offering a wealth of information on how to work with a variety of fish, shellfish, and mollusks. Demonstrating how Thai seafood cookery has diversified over seven centuries, this book includes 125 delicious recipes, from Crisped Catfish Salad with Sour Green Mango and Cashews to Tiger Prawns with Garlic and Chiles. As an instructor of Thai cooking and leader of tours to Thailand for fifteen years, no one is better suited than Loha-unchit to introduce the foods, techniques, and culture to both beginners and experienced cooks alike. |
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By Vatcharin Bhumichitr
Pavilion Books
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Touring the four main regions of Thailand, chef Vatcharin Bhumichitr presents 150 authentic recipes, complete with a guide to basic ingredients and 70 color photos of the country and its food. |
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By Vatcharin Bhumichitr
Pavilion Books
Paperback (192 pages)
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Touring the four main regions of Thailand, chef Vatcharin Bhumichitr presents 150 authentic recipes, complete with a guide to basic ingredients and 70 color photos of the country and its food. |
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By Daovone Xayavong
SLG Books
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This collection of nearly 100 dishes is true to the culinary traditions of Laos, from Young Banana Tree Soup and Catfish Salad to Nam Lao (mixed ingredients in a rice paper wrap). Accompanying the recipes are vignettes about the food and culture of Laos and an extensive glossary.
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By Daovone Xayavong
SLG Books
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This collection of nearly 100 dishes is true to the culinary traditions of Laos, from Young Banana Tree Soup and Catfish Salad to Nam Lao (mixed ingredients in a rice paper wrap). Accompanying the recipes are vignettes about the food and culture of Laos and an extensive glossary.
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By Malulee Pinsuvana
Thai Watana Panich Press Co
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By Malulee Pinsuvana
Thai Watana Panich Press Co
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