Must-Try Thai Food Recipes

Do you adore Thai food? Focusing on the perfect balance of flavours, Thai cuisine is more than just chillies, coriander and lime. Here’s why.

Cuisine goes to the heart of any country. Thailand’s cuisine is an amalgamation of rich flavours and pungent spices created from mouth-wateringly fresh ingredients.

Obsessed with Thai food and want to learn how to cook it at home? Book yourself in for a Thai cooking class. Short of that, try these brilliant Thai food recipes for you to whizz up at home.

Chicken and Coconut Soup

First dish of the day was coconut milk and chicken soup. I won’t rehash all the details but I will pass on two very sage pieces of advice the chef passed over to me.

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He was very insistent that when you use the kaffir lime leaves for the soup you MUST make sure that you remove the stem because the stem makes the soup more bitter.

Thai Deep Fried Fish with Garlic and Chilli sauce – Pla Thod Kra Tiem Prick Thai

Thai deep fried fish should be crispy on the outside and succulent and firm on the inside.

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Serve the Thai deep fried fish with fried vermicelli rice noodles. Heat oil to very high heat and add vermicelli. Remove after 10 seconds and leave on paper towel to drain.

Green Papaya Salad

To balance out this terrible feast of hellfire and brimstone preparations we had a simple Thai dish: spicily fresh and zesty green papaya salad (Som Tam Talay).

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Banana With Coconut Milk

This is without a doubt one of the simplest desserts I’ve ever made but it was delicious. Simply add the chopped banana to heated coconut milk and add lots of crushed ice.

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