Thai Chili Pepper





พริกขี้หนู
These little peppers are about an inch long and very hot. Green ones are not ripe, and red are ripe, but you eat either one and mix them together for color.
At the end of Summer, I would get the Thai chili peppers from Farmer's market, wash and let air dry. Then I would put them in the freezer and freeze them for later use. They seem to last the whole year. Although, toward the end of the year, they seem to lose the heat. Otherwise, the peppers are as good as fresh.
These peppers are widely available at Asian markets, Farmers' market and some supermarkets. They can be grown in the US successfully in the Summer. The plant likes heat and sun.
Red ones are sometimes sun dried, toasted and ground then put on the table as a condiments.
Recipes made with Thai chili pepper
-
Chili Fish Sauce
Nam Pla Prig
Chili fish sauce is one of the most popular sauce that you will be served with in Thailand.
-
Crab Fried Rice
Kow Pud Pboo
Crab fried rice served with a wedge of lime, sliced cucumber and chili fish sauce.
-
Crispy Catfish Green Mango Salad
Yum Pla Dook Foo
Sour unripe mango, biting lime, salty fish sauce and crisped catfish.
-
Chicken on Rice with Hot Yellow Bean Sauce
Kow Mun Gai
Chicken on rice cooked in chicken broth served with spicy soy bean sauce
-
Spicy Budoo
Nam Budoo Song Kreung
Traditional southern Thai sauce served with rice and many veggies.
-
Pork Basil
Pad Gaproa Moosub Kaidow
Spicy ground pork stir-fried with fragrant holy basil. Served over jasmine rice, a fried egg and garlic chili fish sauce.
-
Yum Woon Sen
Spicy glass noodle salad with crunchy peanuts and dried shrimp.
-
Tapioca Dumplings
Saku Sai Moo
Steamed dumplings with pork and peanut filling wrapped in tapioca pearls
-
Green Mango Chili Fish Sauce
Nam Pla Prig Mamuang
Fish sauce with shredded green mango, spiced with Thai chilis, lime juice and shallots
-
Pork Basil
Pad Gaproa Moosub Kaidow
Spicy ground pork stir-fried with fragrant holy basil. Served over jasmine rice, a fried egg and garlic chili fish sauce.
-
Pad Kee Mao
Pork stir-fried with spicy sauce, also known as drunken pork
Comment through Facebook