All Recipes
110 recipes grouped by type.
Bouillabaisse
(2 recipes)Tom Yum refers to spicy fish or seafood soup. But it can also be chicken or other meats, too. It is generally hot and sour. A real hot Tom Yum should draw your sweat and tears.
Category Defying Recipes
(25 recipes)There are many great dishes that defy categorization.
Baked Shrimp in Clear Noodles
Goong Ob Woonsen
Shrimp baked in garlic, pepper, cilantro and clear noodles
Blanched Magosa with Grilled Shrimp
Goong Pow Sadow Lou-ug
Hyper-bitter magosa flowers and hot sweet tamarind sauce on grilled shrimp .
Cha Dum Yen
Cha Dum Yen
Cold Thai Tea
Cha Yen
Chinese Chive Dumpling Sauce
Nam Jim Gui Chai
Chinese Chive Dumplings
Gui Chai
Chinese chive dumplings with hot chili soy sauce.
Coconut Juice
Nam Maprow On
Cold coconut juice for hot days
Cucumber in vinegar
Ahjaad
Sliced cucumber in vinegar
Giant Noodle Roll Sauce
Nam Jim Goi Tiew Lohd
Green Papaya Salad
Som Tum
Shreded green papaya, cherry tomatoes, green beans with lime dressing
Hot Yellow Bean Sauce
Nam Jim Kow Mun Gai
Namya
Namya
Namya Vegetables
Namya Mo-uud
Peanut Dipping Sauce for Fried Tofu
Nam Jim Tou Hu Tod
Peanut Sauce for Satay
Nam Jim Satay
Pickled Ginger
King Dong
Rice
Kow Su-ay
Simple rice, cooked in water. Successfully!
Sticky Rice
Kow Neuw
Steamed sticky rice -- an essential part of regional Thai cuisine
Sweet and Sour Sauce
Nam Jim
Sweet and Sour Tamarind Sauce
Nam Pla Waan
Sweet and sour sauce, made from palm sugar and tamarind.
Thai Tea
Cha
Bright orange sweet tea with a distinct flavor
Thin Rice Noodles
Kanom Jeen
Tod Mun Sauce
Nam Jim Tod Mun
Tropical Yum Sauce
Veggies for Spicy Budoo
Clear Broth Soups
(5 recipes)Gang Jeud is made with chicken broth, fish broth, or pork broth. You would serve a Gang Jeud dish to balance other hot dishes or other non-curry. So, when there is a hot dish on the table, Gang Jeud...
Bitter Melon Soup in Sparerib Broth
Gang Jued Mara
Clear bitter melon soup slow cooked in sparerib broth.
Chicken in Coconut Soup
Gai Tom Kha
Galangal flavored coconut soup. Sour and hot broth.
Chicken Stock
Nam Gang
Simple chicken broth
Spicy Vegetable Soup
Gang Leang
Clear, spicy vegetable soup
Stuffed Bitter Melon Soup
Gang Jeud Mara Sai Moo
Bitter melon in clear broth
Curry
(5 recipes)Gang ped, in general, is cooking curry paste in coconut milk and with a mixture of meat and vegetables. There are several varieties of Gang Ped. The most famous Gang Ped is red curry, but Thai peopl...
Beef and Bamboo Shoot Curry
Gang Naw Mai Neuw Sub
Ground beef and bamboo shoot red curry.
Beef Panang
Panang Nua
A dry beef curry, sprinkled with kaffir lime leaves
Chicken Curry
Gang Gai
Chicken and Thai eggplant in red curry
Chinese Water Spinach Curry
Gang Tay Po
Chinese water spinach stewed in curry sauce with pork
Masaman Curry
Masaman
Stewed beef and potato in spicy curry.
Fried Rice
(2 recipes)Thai Fried Rice is a easy to make and quite flexible. Because the Thai version depends on very different flavor components than the Chinese version that most westerners are used to, it's like a compl...
Grilling
(6 recipes)In a traditional Thai kitchen, there was only a charcoal stove in the center of the room, so grilled meats were common. Food is grilled at low temperature with ashes covering the charcoal to tame the...
Barbeque Pork
Moo Dang
Pork barbecued with five spice marinade.
Barbeque Pork on Rice
Kow Moo Dang
Five spiced barbeque pork on rice
Grilled Pork
Moo Ping
Grilled pork on skewers
Grilled Steak with Spicy Shallot Sauce
Nua Yang
Medium rare grilled steak, served with spicy shallot and lime sauce.
Satay
Satay
Marinaded and grilled pork served on skewers with peanut sauce. A simpler recipe.
Satay - Modern Thai Version
Satay
Marinaded and grilled pork served on skewers with peanut sauce
Noodles
(4 recipes)Goi Tiew is in general refers to noodles. There are different type of goi tiew. Ba-mee are egg noodles, yellow in color and can be boiled, stir fried or deep fried, depending on the dish. There are...
Curried Noodles
Goew Tiew Kak
Rice noodles in beef curry sauce
Egg Noodles with Barbeque Pork
Ba Mee Moo Dang
Chinese egg noodles with barbequed pork
Giant Noodle Rolls
Goi Tiew Lohd
Tofu, bean sprouts and shrimp wrapped in fresh noodles and served with a spicy sauce
Noodles in Gravy
Rad Nah
Soft rice noodles and Chinese broccoli with pork and gravy
One Dish Deals
(2 recipes)One dish deal is often served as, but not limited to, lunch. It is a meal in itself. Instead of elaborate dishes, all your daily requirements are packed in one.
Pan Fry or Deep Fry Dishes
(13 recipes)There are a few deep fried dishes in Thailand.
Beef Jerky
Nua Kem
Pan fried beef jerky.
Crispy Fried Okra
Grajiab Tod
Okra fried in a light batter served with chili sauce.
Crispy Pomfret
Pla Jalamed Tod
Crispy fried whole fish. Served with shallot, pepper, fish sauce
Crunchy Squash Blossoms
Dok Fugtong Tod
Squash blossoms, lightly dusted in flour and pan fried.
Fried Fish with Tamarind Sauce
Pla Rad Prig
Whole fish pan fried and served with spicy tamarind sauce
Fried King Mackerel
Pla Insee Tod
Pan fried king mackerel steak
Fried Tofu with Peanut Dipping Sauce
Tou Hu Tod
Fried tofu served with hot cilantro and peanut sauce
Fried Wontons
Geow Grob
Spiced ground pork in crispy wonton wrap
Garlic Shrimp
Goong Gratiem
Shrimp sauteed with garlic and peppers.
Mussel Sprout Pancakes
Hoy Tod
Crispy mussel pancakes with bean sprouts
Pan Fried Mackerel
Pla Too Tod
Pan fried small Thai mackerel
Sausage and Sriracha
Moo Yaw Tod
White pork sausage with mild-hot sauce
Tod Mun
Tod Mun
Fried fish cake, spiced with Thai curry and kaffir lime leaves.
Salads
(7 recipes)Much like salad in the US can have different vegetables and different sauces, Yum is a mix of meat and/or vegetables in a strong flavored sauce. While many people know of Yum Nua (Steak Salad), Yum d...
Bamboo Shoot Yum
Soop Naw Mai
Shredded bamboo shoots boiled in wild Thai leaves with hot lime sauce.
Crispy Catfish Green Mango Salad
Yum Pla Dook Foo
Sour unripe mango, biting lime, salty fish sauce and crisped catfish.
Cucumber Salad
Yum Tang Gua
Sliced cucumber, tomato, onion dressed in Thai sauce
Laab
Larb
Spicy ground pork or chicken salad cooked in lime juice, chili pepper and fish sauce
Steak Salad
Yum Nua
Spicy beef salad in lime juice, hot pepper and fish sauce
Tropical Yum
Yum Tawai
A variety of tropical vegetables with sesame curry sauce.
Yum Sausage
Yum Moo Yaw
Pork sausage salad served hot or cold
Sauces served with fresh vegetables
(3 recipes)For this type of dish, you generally eat a variety of fresh or boiled vegetables and leaves, rice and a wet or dry sauce. For example, you would get a plate with small piles of bite size cut beans, ...
Mackerel with Chili Sauce
Nam Prig Pla Tuu
Mackerel and fresh vegetables with a shrimp paste sauce.
Pickled Fish Chili Sauce
Pla Rah Lohn
Pickled fish cooked in coconut milk, spiced with shallot and chili peppers.
Spicy Budoo
Nam Budoo Song Kreung
Traditional southern Thai sauce served with rice and many veggies.
Slow cooked Dishes
(1 recipe)Toon is slow cooking in broth. This slow cooking method softens the tougher cuts, such as tendon or tripe.
Steamed or Boiled Dishes
(2 recipes)There are a few main dishes that are steamed. Most steamed food are snacks.
Stir Fry Dishes
(8 recipes)Pud refers to cooking vegetables and/or meat quickly with small amount of oil in high heat.
Basil Eggplant
Pud Makua Yow
Stir fried eggplant with basil and chili pepper.
Chicken Basil
Gai Pad Gra Pow
Ground chicken stir fried with Thai basil
Chinese Chive Flowers with Shrimp
Pud Dok Gui Chai
Stir fried Chinese chive flowers with shrimp
Clams in Hot Basil
Hoy Pad Prig
Manila clams in spicy basil sauce.
Ginger and Chicken Stir Fry
Gai Pud King
Stir fried chicken with julienned ginger and wood ear mushrooms.
Green Beans and Shrimp
Pad Prig King
Dried curry green beans with shrimp
Stinky Beans and Shrimp
Pud Ped Sataw
Stinky beans stir fried in red curry paste with shrimp
Stir fried Pumpkin
Pud Fug Tong
Squash stir fried with garlic and pepper.
Sweets and Desserts
(8 recipes)Thai desserts are very different from Western desserts. Where Thai chefs could not fall back on chocolate or flour, they took advantage of the indigenous ingredients. To this day, very few Thai peop...
Mango on Sticky Rice
Kow Neuw Mamuang
Ripe mango served on a bed of coconut milk soaked sticky rice.
Miniature Fruit
Loog Choob
Miniature fruits made from mung bean paste cooked in coconut milk.
Mung Bean Pudding
Tau Suan
Sweet mung bean pudding topped with coconut milk
Pumpkin in Coconut Milk
Fug Tong Gang Buad
Pumpkin cooked in sweet coconut milk
Rubies in Coconut Milk
Tub-tim Grob
Crunchy water chestnut coated with tapioca flour in coconut milk served with ice
Sticky Rice Balls in Coconut Milk
Boa Loy
Sticky rice flour pearls in sweet coconut milk.
Tapioca Pudding with Young Coconut
Saku Peiak Maprow On
Tapioca pudding in warm coconut milk
Tofu in Sweet Ginger Sauce
Tau Huay
Soft tofu served in hot sweet ginger sauce
Thai Spaghetti
(1 recipe)Kanom Jeen is has many sauces with various flavors. The most popular is Nam Ya, which is made from Nam Ya curry paste, coconut milk and fish. A milder sauce is Nam Prig, which has mung bean, coconut...
