Thai Recipes

Ingredients

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Ken Hom's Foolproof Thai Cookery: 40 Thai dishes with step-by-step instructions and photographs. An essential introduction to Thai cooking.

Vatch's Thai Cookbook

Vegetarian Thai
Ken Hom Cooks Thai

Tom Yum (Spicy & Sour Prawn Soup)

• Water or stock sufficient for 2 people
• Prawns, preferably uncooked Tiger Prawns peeled except for the tail
• Lemon Grass - 1 stalk chopped into 4 pieces and bruised
• Straw Mushrooms
• Galangal or ginger - 1 inch cut into thin slices
• Red Chillies - 1 or more whole depending on bravery, de-seed to reduce heat
• Fish Sauce - about 1 tbsp to taste
• Garlic - 2 cloves chopped coursely
• Shallots - 4 chopped in half
• Baby tomatos - 6 whole
• Kaffir Lime leaves - 2 torn
• Lime - juice of one half
• Coriander leaves to garnish

Method:

• Bring the water or stock to the boil in a saucepan
• Add the lemon grass, shallots, garlic & galangal and simmer for a few minutes
• Add the tomatos and mushrooms
• Add the Kaffir Lime leaves, chillies and fish sauce
• At the last minute add the prawns and then turn off the heat
• Add the lime juice and garnish with the coriander

Thai Fried Rice

• Rice - 1 cup
• Shallots - 6 chopped
• Garlic - 2 cloves chopped
• Galangal or ginger - 1 inch chopped
• Chillies - 1 or more whole depending on bravery, de-seed to reduce heat
• Chicken breast - cut into bite size pieces
• Prawns - preferably peeled except for their tails
• White fish fillet
• Peas, Spring Onions or other vegetables
• Fish sauce - 1-2 tbsp to taste
• Soy sauce - 2 tbsp
• Palm Sugar - 1 tsp
• Coriander leaves - handful chopped
• Vegatable Oil - for frying

Method:

• Cook the rice in advance and leave to cool and dry-out
• Fry the shallots, garlic, galangal and chillies until the onion softens
• Add the chicken, prawns and fish and fry until cooked, break up the fish into small chunks
• Add the vegetables and continue frying
• Add the rice, fish sauce, soy sauce and palm sugar
• Stir continuously to fully coat mix the rice into the other ingredients
• Stir in coriander leaves and turn off the heat