Chicken

Yam Thawaai Recipe : สูตรทำยำทวาย

This recipe would probably change your perception about the term “salad”, maybe because its dressing has a multi layered, curry-like personality, rather than the common sour vinaigrette-like dressing, or maybe because it takes some good few hours to prepare, somewhat longer than simply opening a bag of hydroponic greens. This salad is the fruit of [...]

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Khao Soi, Northern Style Curried Noodle Soup with Chicken

This dish takes us back in time to the mid-19th century. The trade caravans were trailing the jungles of northern Thailand along the ancient routes between India and China. Those long caravans were carrying wealth of exotic goods, leaving rich aroma of spices and the sweet scent of opium as they passed. The men on [...]

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Fresh Coconut Milk Tom Yum Soup of Grilled Banana Blossom, Chicken and Oyster Mushrooms

It will not be an overstatement to say that banana trees accompany Thai people from their birth to the afterlife. Starting with the decorative objects made out of banana leaves newborns receive to invite protective spirits, and continues their entire life with the endless uses for banana leaves, trunks and fruits; finally ending with the [...]

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Chicken Galangal Coconut Soup tom kha gai ; ต้มข่าไก่

It is pretty cheering and I must say rare that a single local dish will grab the attention of the entire world. Tom kha gai did just that! However, with fame comes the danger of losing it essence. You see, if a dish can be found on a menu of a Thai restaurant in the [...]

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Stir Fried Chicken with Cashew Nuts

Here is the Thai take on a dish that can probably be found in any Asian hole_in_the_wall take away in the west. The soft and moist chicken marry well with the warm crunch of freshly toasted Cashew nuts, or as they called in Thai, the mangoes of the high forests of India. The dish captures [...]

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Chicken Wings in Black Pepper Caramel

Here is a quick and tasty dish that allows me to be genuinely emotional, I shed tears every time I chop the mountain of shallots and I grin from ear to ear without an apparent reason when I see the beautiful deep amber color the chicken wears after less than 15 minutes of preparations, a [...]

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Thai Green Chicken Curry

In this video you will learn how to prepare an authentic Thai green chicken curry. (แกงเขียวหวานไก่ Gaeng khiao Waan Gai) Thai green curry is one of the popular ambassadors of Thai food in overseas restaurants. As such the dish has suffered modifications and abuses. This video demonstrates the authentic method of creating a flavorful curry [...]

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