shallot
homm
vegetables
In Thai cooking, shallots are like garlic's counterpart - it is used about as much as garlic. For example, it is always in curry paste and is sometimes eaten as a condiment, swimming in fish sauce. <I>Homm</I> means "good smell".
Recipes using shallot
Chili Fish Sauce
Nam Pla Prig
Crispy Catfish Green Mango Salad
Yum Pla Dook Foo
Sour unripe mango, biting lime, salty fish sauce and crisped catfish.
Cucumber in vinegar
Ahjaad
Sliced cucumber in vinegar
Fried Fish with Tamarind Sauce
Pla Rad Prig
Whole fish pan fried and served with spicy tamarind sauce
Hot Shallot Sauce with Toasted Rice
Prig Nam Jim
Laab
Larb
Spicy ground pork or chicken salad cooked in lime juice, chili pepper and fish sauce
Pad Thai
Pad Thai
Stir fried rice noodles with chives, bean sprouts and shrimp.
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.
Spicy Vegetable Soup
Gang Leang
Clear, spicy vegetable soup
Sweet and Sour Tamarind Sauce
Nam Pla Waan
Sweet and sour sauce, made from palm sugar and tamarind.