Delicious Thai food in Thailand. Prices, photos

Traveling independently in Thailand, I want to try many Thai dishes and choose the most suitable and delicious for myself. There are usually no problems with food in Thailand - it is everywhere. And everywhere, in cafes or at macaques, the food is quite tasty. No one is complete without a huge variety of food. Let's see what food is the most popular in Thailand and what is worth trying.

Classic Thai food is very spicy. However, in tourist areas, Thais cook moderately spicy food. Tourists either adapt to this or remember the magic phrase “know spicy” before ordering.

1. Gai Pad Met Mamuang - Thai Chicken

Fried chicken pieces with crunchy cashew nuts and peppers. It has a sweet-salty taste. Usually this dish is not very peppery.

2.Spring Roll

Of course, Thai cuisine is unthinkable without spring rolls. Moreover, the menu will say, most likely, not “rolls”, but “roll” - Thais ignore the endings. Spring Rolls are fried crispy spring rolls - a pleasant snack. Often spring rolls are vegetarian food, the most popular option among tourists is with shrimp.

3. Panaeng

Panaeng is made with chicken, pork or beef in a red curry. To soften the curry in Thailand, they like to add coconut milk to their food. It is usually served with boiled rice.

4. Som Tam - Thai Papaya Salad

A spicy papaya salad is made with beans, tomatoes, onions and some herbs. It goes very well as an addition to the grill and other meat dishes.

5. Moo Sa-Te - skewers

Spicy small pork skewers in Thailand can be found everywhere, they are served with yellow curry. Especially good as an appetizer for beer.

6. Tom Yam Goong - the famous Thai soup Tom Yam with shrimp

The most advertised dish to Russian tourists. For some reason, it is believed that in Thailand they should immediately fall in love with Tom Yam and eat it every day. It is actually a VERY spicy, insatiable and weird food. From the whole plate, only shrimp are caught and the liquid is scooped out, everything else is not eaten. It can be so sharp that it is impossible to breathe for several seconds. Therefore, it is better to start your acquaintance with Thai food not with Tom Yam, but with Thai Pad Thai noodles.

7. Thai noodles Pad Thai - simple and delicious food in Thailand

The most adequate food in thailand. Beginners should start with fried noodles. It is prepared from different varieties of noodles with the addition of chicken, pork, or seafood. Tofu, fried eggs, onions and chopped peanuts are also added to the dish.
Learn “phad thai kai” and you will never go hungry in Thailand :)

8. Khaw Pad Fried Rice

Fried rice is the most common food in Thailand. Prepared with chicken, pork, beef or seafood. Required ingredients: fried eggs and vegetables. Depending on the variety of rice, it can be of different colors - from white to brown.

9. Soup Khao Soi

A very popular dish in northern Thailand is Khao Soi. Two types of noodles (regular and crispy) with yellow curry and pieces of chicken or beef. The style of cooking varies greatly by institution. Goes great with beer :)

In Thailand, the cult of food is developed, they eat everything, everywhere, a lot and tasty. Thai cuisine is very diverse, so everyone will find something to their liking. Trying new dishes in Thailand is one of the forms of entertainment for tourists.

The love for Thai cuisine is growing day by day. This is due to the cultural and gastronomic traditions of the country. There are whole legends about the spiciness of food , as some dishes cannot be tasted without preparation.

Food is often prepared right in front of customers. It is very interesting and appetizing. Thais love to cook and, basically, do not use recipes, but their skill and imagination. Each dish is almost unique. Particular attention is paid to its decoration.

There are a lot of restaurants and cafes. You can eat there very well and relatively inexpensively. This is the most cultural form of eating.

A distinctive feature of Thai service is quality and conscientiousness. Therefore, you can eat without fear even in the market. For any money, the food will be fresh and well cooked. . You can satisfy your hunger around the clock anywhere in Thailand.

In the cafe-barbecue, you can cook for yourself, you just need to pay for the use of the stove and choose any food for yourself. This type of service is very popular with local residents.

The Thai market has a very large selection of all kinds of products. They are sold in stalls or cafe stalls, where there are tables and chairs. There are night markets. The food is fresh and of good quality. There barbecue and other dishes are prepared right in front of your eyes.

street food is a gastronomic specialty of Thailand. Sold from special carts, carts, mobile kitchens. called "tops". This is a moped kitchen with a sidecar. Prepared food is prepared and sold from it. Everything that is possible is converted into kitchens - vans, boats.

Food vendors sell different dishes on the beach.

In a word, you can eat anytime, anywhere. One gets the impression that everyone only does what they eat.

Variety in food

Consider what is worth trying in Thailand from food.

• Seafood

They stand like regular chicken or meat. Always fresh, mined and delivered to restaurants and cafes around the clock.

Since Thailand is washed by the seas on all sides, the seafood menu pleases with the maximum variety. They are very tasty and healthy, but at the same time low in calories. it oysters, clams, squid, crabs, shrimps, octopuses, spiny lobsters, lobsters . In fish restaurants, you can choose your favorite fish right in the aquarium and the chef will get to work.

• Fruit

The crop is harvested three times a year, so the fruit is very fresh and healthy. Juices and cocktails are also prepared from them.

• Rice

The following types of rice are used: glutinous rice and crumbly rice "jasmine".

Rice is considered the main dish by the locals, and all the rest are just an addition to it.

• Meat

Mostly poultry meat. The Thai people do not support the consumption of meat dishes from large animals.

• Coconut milk

Added to many dishes. They replace dairy products of animal origin.

• Spicy dishes with lots of spices.

• exotic dishes

From insects, crocodile meat, snakes, scorpions can surprise any traveler.

The history of Thai food is very ancient. It was influenced by such countries as India, China, Japan and Portugal. The inhabitants of this paradise maintain their traditions, which have evolved over the centuries. This is reflected in the gastronomic culture. Let's talk about the dishes that are used most often.

1. Green Papaya Salad Papaya Salad . Prepared with lime, coconut sugar, ginger, shrimp, fish, peanuts.
2. Spicy and sour ginger soup Tom Yam . Very spicy, for tourists it is served in a light version. Prepared with the addition of ginger, chili pepper, lemongrass, lemon peel, shrimp paste. Can be cooked with chicken, mushrooms, rice noodles.
3. Fried rice noodles Pad Thai . It is considered a daily dish for Thai people. Prepared with the addition of bean sprouts, fresh vegetables, soy cheese, lime juice, green onions.
   In another version of this dish, eggs, chicken, shrimp or pork are added. Topped with tamarind sauce. Even children can eat the dish, as it is not spicy. Spicy seasonings are added as desired.
4. Fried Rice Khao Pad you can try anywhere. Chicken, tomatoes, onions or shrimp, small fish, vegetables, raw eggs are added to it. And, of course, sauces and seasonings.
5. Roti rice flour pancakes . With banana, pineapple, coconut filling for dessert, poured over with cream or chocolate. Or topped with cheese, tomato and onion for main courses. There are a lot of options for preparing these delicacies.

• Try crabs, crayfish, fish, shellfish, shrimp, lobster . When you go on a tour with a Thai guide, ask him to show you a place where there are no tourists. Let him help you choose good foods and dishes.
• In hotels in Thailand service not very popular "All inclusive" . Basically, they offer breakfast in the form of a buffet. The rest - according to your taste wishes and for additional money.
• Since the food is extremely spicy, if you do not like it, you need to warn about it in English ( NO SPICY- not hot). Although the concepts of Europeans and Thais "about acute" differ considerably. And the dish can still be heavily seasoned.
• For very spicy dishes, you need to order a cup of rice or plain water with ice.
• Thai people don't eat bread. , it is sold in supermarkets. It is bought mainly by tourists.
• For those who stubbornly do not want to try local dishes, there are European options. Such as scrambled eggs with bacon, fried chop with mashed potatoes, mushroom dishes.

You can be sure that you will not go hungry! With high quality and variety, prices remain affordable.

Grated ginger, a couple of bergamot leaves, a sprig of lemongrass, fish sauce, chili pepper, thick oyster sauce, lime juice and a spoonful of sugar. The taste of Thai food is an amazing combination of sweet, salty, sour and savory-spicy. Thai cuisine is ranked high in the rankings of the best food from around the world. I myself look forward to a trip to Thailand every time to order again a plate of Tom Yum soup, papaya salad or my favorite dessert - glutinous rice in coconut milk with mango in a restaurant. Today is a post about Thai cuisine, with a detailed description of the dishes and lots of photos. Before watching, it is better to eat well.

We lived in Thailand during three winters and spent a total of 7 months in the Land of Smiles. I took cooking classes and learned how to cook Thai food from a real Thai chef. I know about the ingredients and dishes firsthand, I understand well what the main dishes of Thai cuisine consist of. I would be very glad if this post helps you better navigate the gastronomic delights of Thailand.

Thai food ingredients

In order to understand what Thai cuisine is, let's talk about the main ingredients. The basis of the basics is sauces. If Europeans try to preserve the original taste of products and use a minimum of spices and sauces, then in Thai cuisine, sauce is the basis of the basics. The dish should combine four tastes: be sour, salty, sweet and spicy at the same time. And if the piquancy in the preparation of some dishes is sometimes ignored, then the sour-sweet-salty Thai food is simply a must.

Thais eat a lot of seafood. Shells, snails, squids, fish, crabs, octopuses. Seafood is cooked in a minimum amount of time, boiled or fried with sauces for only a minute or two. Chicken and pork are also held in high esteem, less often beef dishes are served. Tofu cheese, which is also put in fried noodles, gives a variety of dishes. It is not clear where they put it, and where not - only in noodles, or not only in noodles? Or in noodles for a change, and in other dishes - not for a change ..

There are many vegetables in Thailand. Thais are happy to use cauliflower, onions, corn, zucchini, small eggplants, tomatoes and cucumbers. Moreover, cucumbers are often fried in a pan along with other vegetables.

Herbs are indispensable helpers in the preparation of Thai food. Lemongrass stalks, kaffir lime (bergamot) leaves, ginger or galangan root, several types of basil, cilantro, green onions ... Thais almost never use salt. It is replaced by fish sauce, which is made from the juice of fermented small fish, which is stored in barrels for a long time. It is fish sauce that gives dishes a special flavor that you will never achieve by replacing this product with soy sauce. Thai fish sauce is not as smelly as Vietnamese, so don't neglect it. Sweetness is added to dishes using regular white or brown sugar, as well as thick palm sugar. It is he who is put in the famous papaya salad.

The sour taste is invariably created with lime juice. It can be either fresh, freshly squeezed from the fruit, or concentrated, made at the factory and packaged in bottles.

The base sauces are thick oyster sauce, black pepper sauce, tamarind sauce and sweet and sour chili.

The most famous Thai dishes

Soup Tom Yum Kung

This dish is considered by many to be a real masterpiece of Thai cuisine. It combines ingredients that at first seem completely incompatible with each other. Judge for yourself: shrimp and mushrooms, onions and tomatoes, broth with coconut milk, sugar, fish sauce and Thai roots and herbs. Tom Yum soup is quite spicy, and if you don't want to be a fire-breathing dragon after dinner, ask for "no chili" soup. It is impossible to cook Tom Yam without being spicy at all, since the obligatory ingredient of the soup is chili paste. But still, without additional chili peppers, the soup will be more adapted to the European stomach.

For many months of living in Thailand, I learned how to cook Tom Yum Kung almost perfectly and I share step by step in a separate post.

Soup Tom Kha Kai

Soup Tom Kha has the same set of herbs and spices as Tom Yum Kung. But it has no chili paste and much more coconut milk. Therefore, it is absolutely not spicy and is very popular with children. Another difference is that shrimp in the soup replaces tender chicken fillet. Soup Tom Kha can be the most healthy and delicious food that you can feed children in Thailand.

Soup Rad Na

I discovered it for myself only six months ago. Spicy thick soup in meat broth with soy and fish sauce seasoned with wide rice noodles and pak choi leaves. Great meal for the whole family.

Thai soups with blood

Thais do not pour out the blood of animals, but prepare blood from it. Only in consistency it is not as hard as ours. Ours is similar to sausage, and in Thailand this jelly-like mass is called blood tofu. It is added to soups as a useful protein component. Also in the north of Thailand, fresh chicken or goose blood can be poured into soups.

Green Papaya Salad Som Tam

I really love green papaya salad and can eat it for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Green unripe papaya itself is neutral in taste, but the dishes turn out just great because of the special sweet and sour sauce. It is made from garlic, chili peppers, sour tamarind sauce and thick palm sugar.

Dried shrimp and crushed peanuts are added to Som Tam. But in the north of Thailand, you can also be offered a papaya salad with very salty tiny crabs. Personally, I do not like them, I prefer the traditional version - with shrimp.

Roti pancakes

This dish is not Thai, but rather pan-Asian. It is both in and in Malay. But in Thailand, they came up with stuffing pancakes not only with fruits, but also with colored sweets, condensed milk and chocolate. Unsweetened roti is smeared with spicy sauces and canned tuna paste. Be sure to order roti while walking through the Thai market.

Rubies in coconut milk - (Tub tim crob)

This is a sweet soup made from coconut milk with ice cubes and red sweet water chestnut balls, as well as canned jackfruit pieces, mango pulp or colored thin noodles. The seller will offer you to choose the filling for this dessert yourself. I suggest putting a little bit of everything on your plate so you can taste more flavors. This dessert is sweet and very refreshing.

Also in Thailand, balls are made from coconut milk, miniature cakes and sugar rounds are baked from eggs, flour and coconut flakes.

Thai exotic: trying something new

Deep-fried insects are sold almost all over Thailand. Scorpions, toads, grasshoppers and silkworm larvae can be found both in the north of Thailand - in Chiang Mai

At first glance, Thai food will seem to you not at all suitable for children. But it’s worth taking a closer look, and you will find a bunch of options for how to feed a baby in Thailand. Boiled rice with chicken and vegetables is sold in any street cafe. You can also order a meat broth soup with chicken or meat, vegetables and a boiled egg. Children really like Thai desserts, but you can have a snack with store-bought yogurt and fresh fruit.

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In order to fall in love with Thai cuisine, it is not at all necessary to stay in Thailand for a very long time, just try a few dishes, and it will immediately become clear that the taste and smell of lemongrass, galangal, cardamom, coconut milk and chili pepper will remain deep in memory for a long time. for a long time, and the taste buds on the tongue from time to time will insistently demand to please them at least once more 🙂

Of course, we have friends who cook their own famous Thai dishes, and we are sure that they are no less tasty than the original ones. Perhaps someday we will take a few lessons and learn how to cook them ourselves, but for now, here are 10 of our most favorite Thai dishes.

Almost each of these dishes (except salads) can be either vegetarian or with chicken, pork, fish or seafood.

Top 10 Thai Dishes

1. Tom Kha
Sweet soup with coconut milk. Of all Thai cuisine, it was he who fell in love with us the most - not too spicy, spicy and sooo tasty.


2. Tom Yum
This is perhaps the most famous dish in Thai cuisine, and even if you have not been to Thailand yet, you must have at least heard about this sour and spicy soup with lemongrass, galangal and lime leaves. Due to the abundance of spices, the soup has a very specific and memorable taste. True, the soup in the Thai sense is significantly different from the usual Russian person - in Tom Yam you can eat almost only broth (well, meat / fish, if any), everything else is added to create flavor and is not edible.
Since Tom Yam is a very spicy soup, rice is offered as an addition to it, more often than to other dishes.


3. Green curry (Green Curry).Also popular are red and yellow curry (Red Curry, Yellow Curry)
The basis of this dish is a special paste, which consists of chili peppers, lemongrass, lime leaves, basil, shrimp paste and coconut milk.


Green, red, and yellow curries are three dishes that are similar in structure and texture and differ in spice composition and spiciness. Green is the sharpest, red and yellow are slightly less sharp. But it should be borne in mind that "less" in this case is a very relative concept, which is why, most often, curry is eaten with rice (although Thais generally eat everything with rice).


3. Massaman Curry
One of our favorite curries is made with coconut milk, roasted peanuts (or cashews), cardamom, tamarind and fish sauce. It has a spicy and pronounced taste and aroma


4. Phanaeng Curry
A bit like massaman, but it has less peanuts and additionally uses shrimp paste.


6. Green Papaya/mango Salad, Som Tum
Green papaya (or green mango) salad with crushed peanuts, green beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, dried shrimp, fish sauce and, of course, chili peppers. We did not succeed in distinguishing the taste of green papaya from green mango in a salad. Both salads are delicious, but very spicy - it's almost impossible to eat them without tears 🙂


7. Pad Thai
Fried noodles with egg, soybean sprouts, fish (or oyster) sauce, peanuts and assorted additives. Quite simple, but tasty and very popular dish in Thailand - it can be found both in street eateries and in decent restaurants. Padtai differs in the type and composition of noodles, so there can be a huge number of variations


8. Fried Rice (Khau Phat)
Fried rice with egg and vegetables is one of the favorite dishes among backpackers, as it is sold on every corner and is cheap. We are not big fans of rice, so we liked only one variation of this dish called Khao Phat Sapparot - pineapple fried rice.


9. Sen Khao Soi
Popular in northern Thailand, this dish is a soup made with deep-fried egg noodles. Lime, onion, chili and pickle from cabbage are also served with the soup.


10. Roti - pancakes with various fillings (egg, chicken, as well as chocolate, banana and other fruits)
Pancakes are not baked from batter, as in Russia, but from kneaded and kneaded to a thin, almost transparent state. We are not sure if this is an original Thai dish, but it is prepared in many places and pancakes are very popular among both tourists and locals.


Of course, Thai cuisine is not limited to a set of 10 dishes, in order to list all the dishes, you have to write a whole book. For example, in addition to the most popular Tom Yam and Tom Kha soups, there are many other soups that are very tasty and not for everyone.


In the south of Thailand, especially in the maritime regions, fresh fish and seafood dishes are very popular.


In addition to papaya and mango, other vegetables and fruits are often used in salads, such as grapefruit, pomelo, corn and tofu


In addition, there are often situations when in a Thai cafe without an English menu, you have to order dishes whose composition is only approximately clear (but this does not make them less tasty)


And, of course, you can’t ignore the night markets, where you can try something unusual - for example, grilled shrimp, skewers on skewers, as well as all kinds of caterpillars, grasshoppers and other insects, eaten, which, however, are mainly tourists =) We will write about evening markets separately, but for now you can read about.

chili sauce recipe

Well, as a bonus, a little homemade Thai cuisine, namely, a recipe for chili sauce, which we learned to cook in Kanchanaburi under the guidance of our Thai friend Adisaka.

The Adisaka family has Chinese roots, so for the first dinner he treated us to Chinese-Thai dishes, and after learning about ours, he offered to cook the next dinner together, in Thai style.

We exchanged recipes and told Adisak about our culinary experiments in Bali, and he taught us how to cook chili sauce, without which, in his opinion, Thai cuisine would not be Thai (the smart iPad persistently suggests replacing the word "Thai" with "heavenly" - what can we say about people, even if technology is a good judge of Thai cuisine 🙂

So, the recipe is quite simple, for cooking we need the following ingredients:

• Green chili pepper - 7 pcs.
• Cherry tomatoes - 7 pcs.
• Garlic - 7 cloves
• Lime - 1 pc.
• Shrimp paste 1/2 tsp
• Fish sauce 1 tbsp
• Cane sugar 1 tsp

By the way, we thought that only in the street cafes of Thailand (and Asia in general) cooks do not wash vegetables, but it turned out that this is not accepted in their culture at all - even in such a decent house, no one even thought to wash vegetables before cooking. That is why in Asia it is better to avoid food that has not undergone heat treatment.

To prepare the sauce, you will need a mortar, it is most convenient to make such sauces in it. In Asia, as we have noticed, any housewife will definitely have a mortar in the kitchen - even those who have both a food processor and a blender still use a mortar when it comes to sauces, apparently this is also in their blood 🙂

Adisak assured that the order in which the ingredients are added is very important:

• First, put the chili pepper in a mortar, after cutting off the tips, knead.
• Next, add sugar and garlic, previously crushed with a knife (to extract juice) and cut into small pieces, knead.
• Then squeeze the lime juice and throw in the tomatoes cut into quarters, knead.
• The last step is to add the shrimp paste and fish sauce, mix everything thoroughly.

The sauce is ready, it is desirable to cool it before serving 🙂
Warning: the sauce is very spicy!


Enjoy your meal!

Over the last month, we have been madly happy with Indian and Tibetan dishes, and also recently discovered Korean cuisine, although we miss Thai 🙂 What cuisines of the world do you prefer?

Thai cuisine is an amazing phenomenon, as the Thais have managed to maintain the originality of their national cuisine, despite the huge influence from India and China. In our article, we want to talk about the most famous and popular dishes of this amazing country.

Products used by Thais

Thai dishes are unique in that an incredible amount of all kinds of spices are used during their preparation. Hot peppers are very popular and are the basis of many dishes. In general, the dishes are very spicy.

The basis of nutrition for the inhabitants of an exotic country is rice, which is considered the main Asian culture. Almost all Thai dishes contain this product. Moreover, two varieties of rice are used: sticky and white crumbly. The second is eaten with spoons as a side dish, and the first is rolled into balls, which are then put whole in the mouth. Rice stir-fry, watery soup, sweet and sour rice… The list of dishes from this product that Thais cook is simply endless.

But a variety of sauces (soy, fish) are always served on the table with a side dish. However, it is worth noting that Thai dishes are not only rice. It is served with vegetables, fish and meat.

Soybeans, which are consumed in processed form, can be considered the next most popular product after rice. Pasta, cottage cheese, sauce are made from them.

Many Thai dishes are made with fish. Freshwater species are mainly used, which are found in local lakes and streams. Delicious soups and main dishes are prepared from fish, wrapped in banana leaves. Very popular in Thailand and seafood.

It may seem that Thais consume only fish. But actually it is not. Their diet also includes meat. The most popular is pork, chicken (meat of any bird), from which simply amazingly delicious dishes are prepared.

Features of national food

Thai food has one peculiarity. In Thailand, milk and all kinds of dairy products are almost completely absent. The Thais themselves do not suffer from this in any way and replace them with coconut cream and milk. It is these products that enrich the local food with an extraordinary taste, which is difficult to reproduce in our conditions.

The climate of Thailand makes it possible for its inhabitants to enjoy ripe fruits all year round. Bananas and papaya are very common here. But fruits such as rambutan, mangosteen and mango appear only in season, but they are always in abundance.

Thai food is very unusual. Its uniqueness lies in the fact that it is prepared from products that are very unusual for us, and the methods of its preparation are unusual. Therefore, it is quite difficult to reproduce such dishes at home, because you need to achieve special flavors. But you can still try to cook the most popular dishes.

beef dish

Thai beef is a completely new interpretation of a seemingly familiar dish. If you offer your guests such food, they will be very surprised and will certainly ask for more.

The dish is slightly spicy and spicy, which gives it a certain piquancy. A mixture of sauces and spices gives the usual meat a completely new sound.

For cooking you will need the following products:

1. Beef tenderloin - 260 g.
2. One lime.
3. Lemon grass - 20 g.
4. Clove of garlic.
5. Green cilantro.
6. One chili pepper.
7. Green onion.
8. Basil.
9. Chicken broth - 120 g.
10. Soy sauce - 15 g.
11. Cane sugar - 7 g.
12. Olive oil - 12 ml.
13. Corn starch - 12 g.

cooking beef

Thai beef is cooked with lots of herbs. Cooking should start with the preparation of rice. It must be thoroughly rinsed until the water is completely clear. After that, the cereal can be poured with water in a ratio of 1 to 1.5 and sent to cook over medium heat. Rice is considered ready as soon as all the liquid has evaporated.

In the meantime, you can move on to preparing the meat. The beef needs to be marinated. Cut it into small pieces and put in a bowl. Now you need to prepare the marinade: squeeze the juice from the lemongrass, and cut its pulp, add soy sauce and exactly half of the prepared starch. The resulting mixture is sent to the beef.

Mince the garlic and finely chop the chili pepper. Mix these ingredients and add also fish sauce, as well as sugar and the juice of the fourth part of the lime.

Next, you need to chop the green onion, and dissolve the remaining starch in the broth. Now fry the beef in a well-heated pan for several minutes, removing the lemongrass first. Then add oyster sauce (prepared by us) and broth with starch to the pan. Mix all ingredients and bring to a boil. At the end, basil and onions are added, after which the pan is removed from the stove.

Now you need to properly serve the dish. Put the beef on boiled rice, and decorate it with cilantro on top.

Pad Thai

We would like to bring to your attention the recipe for one of the most popular and delicious Pad Thai consists of fried flat rice noodles (its width is about half a centimeter) and tamarind (sweet and sour) sauce. The second component is, unfortunately, very difficult to find. Therefore, tamarind sauce can simply be replaced with a mixture of fish and soy sauce with lime juice and vegetable oil (peanut and sesame are good).

It is very difficult to reproduce the dish in the original version, but you can cook a more adapted version that is close to the original. All the necessary ingredients can be purchased in large supermarkets or in specialized shops for Asian cuisine. For cooking, you will need special dishes - a wok.

So, let's start with preparing the noodles. It must be boiled according to the instructions on the package, and then rinsed. Next, clean the shrimp, removing all unnecessary from them. Beat a few large eggs in a separate bowl with a whisk.

Cut the onion feathers, chop a few shallots and one clove of garlic. Salted roasted peanuts should be chopped.

Next, we move on to cooking meat. One hundred or two hundred grams of pork cut into slices. We put a wok on the stove and heat the sesame oil on it. Put the shallots in a bowl and fry it for about a minute, then add the meat and also cook for a couple of minutes. After that, put the garlic and shrimp in the pan and fry all the ingredients for a few more minutes, not forgetting to stir constantly.

Now you need to add eggs to the pan and immediately mix everything thoroughly. If the wok is too hot, you can lift it up and stir the contents by weight. The eggs should turn into something resembling flakes. Such an effect is not so easy to achieve.

In the dish we put a tablespoon of ketchup, two tablespoons of fish sauce, a teaspoon of sugar (it is better to use cane or palm sugar), the juice of one lime, and a meal of sprouted beans. Mix all ingredients again and remove from heat. Sprinkle the finished dish with onion, ground pepper and chopped peanuts. After mixing the ingredients well, the food is served in special bowls.

Sirracha sauce

Thai sriracha sauce is incredibly fragrant and spicy, it goes well with almost any dish: rolls, fish, meat, and is also used when baking food.

Ingredients:

1. Three cloves of garlic.
2. Chili pepper - 65 g.
3. A tablespoon of soy sauce.
4. One head of onion.
5. Rice vinegar - 2 tbsp. l.
6. Tablespoon of vegetable oil.
7. Tomato paste - 120 g.
8. Sugar - 2 tbsp. l.

This sauce was first prepared fifty years ago by a Thai woman in a small village. Everyone liked him incredibly. And after some time, the recipe was bought out and the sauce began to be produced in large volumes. Siracha is still very popular in Asian countries. It is used for baking, frying, as an ingredient for marinade.

Cooking should start by frying chopped onion and chopped garlic in a pan. Next, you need to add pepper and tomato, and simmer the workpiece for five minutes. Now you can pour vinegar, soy sauce and put sugar. Cook the dish until the ingredients are soft. After our sauce has cooled down a bit, it must be chopped in a blender. It can be placed in a glass jar, sealed and stored in the refrigerator.

massaman curry

A dish with such a beautiful name is included in the TOP-50 of the world's best culinary products. So, it is definitely worth a try. Massaman curry is prepared in every restaurant in Thailand. This type of curry is considered the least spicy among other types. In addition, it is worth knowing that the dish is prepared exclusively from beef. Of course, you can use chicken, pork, but then it will not be a completely original dish.

It is said that during the time of King Rama II of Siam, massaman curry was on the royal menu. The basis of the dish is pasta. It traditionally consists of shallots, dried red peppers, galangal, garlic, cumin, white pepper, lemongrass, white coriander, salt, and shrimp paste.

An amazing combination of beef pulp and potatoes, stewed exclusively in coconut milk, is complemented by the aromas of spices, resulting in a very harmonious dish.

Ingredients:

1. Coconut milk - 220 g.
2. Beef - 430 g.
3. Onion sets - 18 pcs.
4. Tamarind paste - to taste.
5. Massaman curry paste - 60 g.
6. Fish sauce - to taste.
7. Cashew or roasted peanuts.
8. White cardamom - 5 pcs.
9. Bay leaf - to taste.
10. Half a teaspoon of zira.

Recipe of dish

Fry the cardamom and zira in a dry wok. Cut the meat into pieces. Take out the cream from a jar of milk (coconut) and add it to the pan along with the curry paste. Fry the ingredients until the cream begins to release oil. Next, put the meat in the wok and simmer it in the mixture until tender (30 or 40 minutes). In the meantime, prepare the onions and potatoes, peel them and cut into large pieces. Twenty minutes before the end of cooking, add onions, potatoes and fish sauce to the pan. The dish should come to readiness. At the very end of cooking, you need to add zira, cardamom, tamarind paste, bay leaf. The finished dish is served in a deep plate, sprinkled with peanuts on top.

Thai miracle

Panang Gai is an amazing dish. In our article we want to give a simple recipe for its preparation. The main thing is to find all the necessary products on sale, because without curry and coconut milk, the dish simply will not work.

Ingredients:

1. Chicken fillet - 350 g.
2. Vegetable oil.
3. A teaspoon of fish sauce.
4. String beans - 120 g.
5. Three teaspoons of curry paste.
6. Two teaspoons brown sugar.
7. Coconut milk - 220 ml.
8. Broccoli - 120 g.
9. Chile - 4 pcs.
10. A pinch of lime leaves.
11. Nuts - 60 g.

Recipe

Chicken fillet must be washed and dried, and then cut into pieces. Next, chop the broccoli into florets, chop and chilli. Fry the meat a little in a pan, and blanch the beans.

Put the cream of coconut milk in a saucepan and bring it to a boil. Then add the curry paste and stir the mixture until dissolved. Now you can add milk, fish sauce, put some lime leaves and sugar. Next, we send broccoli, chili, chicken and beans to the wok. All ingredients should simmer over low heat for ten minutes. Vegetables and fillets should reach full readiness. The dish is ready.

green curry

Thai green curry is one of the best dishes in northern Thailand. The combination of coconut milk with spicy spices gives an amazing taste, making the dish incredibly popular. Its basis is the green curry paste itself, which can be purchased or cooked.

Ingredients:

1. Pea eggplant - one handful.
2. Thai eggplant - 6 pieces.
3. One chicken breast.
4. Winter melon - 250 g.
5. Can of coconut milk.
6. Chili pepper - 3 pcs.
7. Curry paste (green) - 3 tbsp. l.
8. Three cloves of garlic.
9. Two tablespoons of fish sauce.
10. Lime leaves.
11. palm sugar.

Vegetables must be prepared: we pick pea eggplants from the branches, cut round ones, cut the melon into pieces, chop the pepper in the form of rings. Chili and garlic must be ground in a mortar and fried in vegetable oil. Can be used for frying and coconut cream. Next, add curry paste to the pan and fry the ingredients for a couple of minutes. Then pour some of the milk (coconut) and mix the mixture, put the pieces of chicken and continue cooking over very low heat. Do not bring the dish to a boil, otherwise the coconut milk may simply exfoliate.

Now you can pour the rest of the milk and cook, remembering to stir. Add sugar, fish sauce, pea eggplant, chili, lime leaves and heat everything again. At the very end of cooking, basil leaves are placed in the curry. They are added to the dish and immediately removed from the fire. Curry is usually served with rice noodles and rice.

Thai salad

Som Tam salad is incredibly popular among Thai women. The dish consists of almost all herbs and is quickly prepared. There are two types of Som Tama: with salted crabs and dried shrimp.

Ingredients:

1. Green papaya.
2. Two chili peppers.
3. Six cherry tomatoes.
4. Two cloves of garlic.
5. Six pods of long beans.
6. Tablespoon of sugar.
7. Lime.
8. Two tablespoons of ground peanuts.
9. A tablespoon of dried shrimp.

Papaya must be peeled and the seeds removed from the core. Using a special tool, we rub the papaya in the form of noodles (the knife for the fruit is somewhat similar to our potato peeler).

In a mortar, grind the chili and garlic. The sharper we want to get the salad, the more carefully we rub the seasonings. Then add tomatoes and beans to the mortar and crush the contents. Tomatoes should release juice. Now we put the shrimp, papaya, peanuts and all other spices, squeeze out the lime juice and mix the ingredients thoroughly. The dish is ready!

thai shrimp

Thai Shrimp is an incredibly delicious seafood dish. To prepare it, we need:

1. Tiger prawns (large) - 0.8 kg.
2. Lime leaves.
3. Lemongrass - four stalks.
4. Ginger - 60 g.
5. Two chili peppers.
6. Sesame oil - 6 tbsp. l.
7. Juice of three oranges.
8. Sea salt.

Grind ginger and garlic on a grater, previously peeled. Cut the stalks of lemongrass into four parts. Finely chop the chili pepper and add it to the ginger and garlic. Pour orange juice, sesame oil there, put salt, lemongrass, lime leaves and mix the ingredients well. The result is a marinade. Add shrimp to it and let them brew in the refrigerator for six hours. We wrap marinated seafood in several layers of foil and bake on coals or on a grill. Estimated cooking time is 10-15 minutes.

If you want to cook such a dish, then you can purchase a set for Tom Yum soup, it has everything you need. This will make it easier for you and you do not have to look for all the ingredients separately to prepare the marinade.

Instead of an afterword

We have provided recipes for only the most famous and popular Thai dishes. In fact, there are an incredible number of them. It is impossible to talk about everyone in the framework of the article. By following the cooking tips, you can indulge yourself with a homemade Thai dish or simply find out what to order in establishments that practice cooking such food.