Thai main course Recipes
These Thai recipes are written for you to know how to cook the Thai food that Thais eat in Thailand every day. These recipes have successfully taught millions of westerners, expatriates and Thai students abroad how to cook Thai food so that it tastes like food from home.
While each of these Thai recipes originated from our families, the Bankgok restaurants or foodcarts we love and the Thai cooks we respect, we have put them through rigorous testing prior to publishing. Each recipe has been tested, not just by experienced Thai cooks, but by regular western people learning at home. Creating these recipes, we explored variations in preparation, cook's taste buds, food knowledge backgrounds, and western kitchens. Please let us know how they worked for you.
Enjoy great Thai food the way it's meant to be loved.
Main Course

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Baked Shrimp in Clear Noodles
Goong Ob Woonsen
Shrimp baked in garlic, pepper, cilantro and clear noodles
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Blanched Neem with Grilled Shrimp
Goong Pow Sadow Lou-ug
Hyper-bitter neem leaves and blossoms and hot sweet tamarind sauce on grilled shrimp .
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Crab Curry with Tindora
Gang Kua Pboo Loog Tum Lueng
Southern red curry with tindora or ivy gourds spiced with fresh turmeric
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Fried Fish with Tamarind Sauce
Pla Rad Prig
Whole fish pan fried and served with spicy tamarind sauce
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Gai Kua Kem
Crunchy, salty chicken or turkey
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Garlic Pepper Ribs
Gradoog Moo Tod Gratiem Prigtai
Ribs or spareribs quickly marinated in garlic pepper and salt then pan fried.
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Ginger and Chicken Stir Fry
Stir fried chicken with julienned ginger and wood ear mushrooms.
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Grilled Steak with Spicy Shallot Sauce
Nua Yang
Medium rare grilled steak, served with spicy shallot and lime sauce.
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Kua Gling Moo
Fiery hot dry pork curry spiced with southern flavors
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Mee Grob
Crunchy sweet and sour rice noodles.
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Pickled Fish Chili Sauce
Pla Rah Lohn
Pickled fish cooked in coconut milk, spiced with shallot and chili peppers.
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Salted Crab Sauce
Lohn Pboo Kem
Creamy coconut sauce with salted crabs served with fresh vegetables.
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Sour Bamboo Curry
Gang Gai Naw Mai Dong
Sour pickled bamboo shoot cooked in red curry paste and coconut milk
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Spicy Budoo
Nam Budoo Song Kreung
Traditional southern Thai sauce served with rice and many veggies.
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Steamed Curried Fish
Haw Moak
Steamed, marinated fish in curry paste and coconut milk on vegetables.
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Thin Rice Noodles
Kanom Jeen
The rice noodles can be stir fried, eaten with papaya salad or fish or chicken curries.
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Vegetarian Stir Fried Pumpkin Shoots
Pud Yod Fug Tong
Crunchy pumpkin shoots stir fried with garlic and salt.
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Watermelon Rind Sour Curry
Gang Som Pleug Tang Mo
Watermelon rind cooked in sour and spicy non-coconut curry