Main Dish Recipes

Post image for Southern Thai Style Deep Fried Fish with Fresh Turmeric<br />(bplaa saai daaeng thaawt khamin ; ปลาทรายแดงทอดขมิ้น สูตรปักษ์ใต้)

If you are a fish lover, than you know that there are only few things in life that taste better than absolutely fresh fish, deep-fried to perfection with a crispy skin that brakes open to reveal the irresistible, steamy, firm white flesh. This menu originated from fishing communities of the south of Thailand, were fishes [...]

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Crispy Catfish Stir Fried with Wild Ginger and Fresh Peppercorn Recipe - สูตรทำปลาดุกทอดกรอบผัดกระชายพริกไทยอ่อน

This dish gives catfish a new and fabulous spin. You can either use farmed or game fish with the same phenomenal results. The intensity of the wild ginger combined with aromatic fresh peppercorn will turn even muddy flavor fish into a delicacy. Slice the fish are first, then role it in flour and deep-fry it [...]

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Issan Style Grilled Catfish Recipe (สูตรทำปลาดุกย่าง)

Catfish are not too fussy about the waters in which they swim. They can even flourish in stagnant waters and flooded rice fields. Farmed widely, Catfish is an inexpensive, accessible, nutritional and delicious food source. Grilled to delicacy, the yellowish mildly fatty flesh goes well with sticky rice and chili-limejuice-fish-sauce sauce, or sweet fish-sauce dip [...]

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Gabpi khuaa Recipe, (สูตรทำหลนกะปิคั่ว อาหารไทยโบราณ)

Here is a dish that accompanies Thai cuisine for many centuries and has not been brainwashed by any foreign cuisine; Lon – an authentic Thai kind of a dip that is banking on tradition. Lon (lohn ; หลน) means in Thai to simmer. In this ancient style dip, minced pork, fermented shrimp paste along with [...]

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Northern Style Hang Lay Curry

This recipe comes all the way from India through the northern Burmese border. The masala spice mix is still sold in small packages with retro looking prints that seem to forever exist. There is no way in a recipe to communicate what’s going on in here; a thick red chili paste marinate, that bursts in [...]

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Khanohm Jeen Naam Phrik ; ขนมจีนน้ำพริก

Today’s menu will feed 30 – 40 hungry guests and will take more than 7 hours to complete. It is tasty and filling and requires tedious preparation and meticulous attention to details. You are probably correct. We do not cook it at home every day. We serve it in special occasions such as ordination ceremony, [...]

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Muu Haawng

The food culture of Phuket, like its architecture, blends western colonial, Hokkien Chinese with Muslim and Thai motifs. The Hokkien Chinese who arrived from Singapore and Malaysia introduced Muu Haawng to the repertoire of the Phuket Thai style cuisine (bpoon dteh ; ปุ้นเต่). It is very similar to the Teochew style Phalo, but here there [...]

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