Who doesn’t love Thai food? Thai Food is one of the most popular cuisines in the world. Here are some of the best rated and loved starters and snacks found in Thailand. You can even find recipes to these dishes.
Gai Pad Prik Khing or Spicy Chicken Stir fry with long beans is a popular mouth-watering thai starter. Here Bite sized Chicken pieces are stir-fried along with the Prik khing curry paste or red curry paste and green long snake beans. In Thai, ‘Gai’ means ‘Chicken’, Prik is ‘Chilli’ and ‘Khing’ is ‘Ginger’ although there is no ginger used in this recipe. The stir fry tastes spicy, sweet, and tangy usually served with steamed Jasmine Rice. It’s one of the easiest and quickest stir fry that you can easily prepare at home and wouldn’t take much time. Watch the video.
Pad kra pao gai also known as Thai Basil Chicken is a classic Thailand dish tossed with Basil, Chilies, and sauces. Generally, in Thailand, it served along with Fried Eggs and steaming hot Jasmine Rice. What makes this dish so special? It’s because of the aromatic flavors of Basil and the sauces that glaze the chicken. Typically in Thailand, they use Holy Basil or even Thai Basil, I have used the regular Basil Since it was readily available for me.It has a blend of spicy, sweet and minty flavors of Basil. The dish gets even better when it’s really spicy. I have added many chilies in this recipe, but it’s totally up to you to adjust the flavors according to your taste. The most amazing fact is it just doesn’t much time to prepare this. It takes less than 30 mins to prepare this recipe and it’s finger-licking good. Watch the video
It’s one of the most popular Thai dishes that has a blend of sweet, spicy, and tangy flavors. It’s very easy to prepare and definitely doesn’t take much time at all. It’s basically deep-fried chicken tossed along with the sauces, roasted or fried Cashews, Bell peppers, Onion, and Garlic. Thai Cashew Chicken is an extremely colorful dish mainly because of the different colored bell peppers, Fried Red Chilies, and Green Onions. The sauce gives it a shine and glossy texture. If you love Thai Cashew Chicken, then you can definitely make this at home. Watch the video.
Tod Mun Pla | Thai Fish cakes are a fantastic Thai street appetizer usually served along with cucumber shallot relish. They are so aromatic and rich in Thai flavors. The red curry paste and Kaffir lime leaves are the key ingredients for this Thai Fish curry. These are usually made by mincing any white fish fillets and combining them with all other ingredients. Adding Snake beans gives these fish cakes a crunch. Usually, in Thailand, these fish cakes are deep-fried, But here we are going to shallow fry them. You can follow our recipe to make the Red Curry Paste from Scratch. Another popular recipe that can be prepared using the red curry paste is the Thai Red Curry Chicken. Watch the video.