Palm Sugar

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Palm sugar is made the same way that maple syrup is made by collecting and boiling the sap into sugar. At night, a bamboo container is placed below a cut palm flower. Throughout the morning, the sap will flow into the container. It is then collected before noon. By the afternoon, if it is not collected, it will turn into alcohol. The sap is boiled down to sugar. It has the maple sugar’s texture and color.

Palm sugar is known as 'nam taan puek' or 'nam taan peep'. The word 'nam taan' or sugar in Thai literally means palm juice. The word 'peep' is the pail that palm sugar comes in.

Recipes made with Palm Sugar

Green Papaya Salad

Som Tum

Shreded green papaya, cherry tomatoes, green beans with lime dressing
Pumpkin in Coconut Milk

Fug Tong Gang Buad

Pumpkin cooked in sweet coconut milk
Blanched Neem with Grilled Shrimp

Goong Pow Sadow Lou-ug

Hyper-bitter neem leaves and blossoms and hot sweet tamarind sauce on grilled shrimp .
Sweet and Sour Tamarind Sauce

Nam Pla Waan

Sweet and sour sauce, made from palm sugar and tamarind.
Tropical Yum

Yum Tawai

A variety of tropical vegetables with sesame curry sauce.
Pumpkin Sticky Rice Balls in Coconut Milk

Bua Loy Fug Tong

Fresh pumpkin sticky rice balls in sweet coconut milk sauce.
Beef Massaman Curry

Gang Masamun Nuea

Rich and well seasoned beef curry with potatoes and onions