central Thai Recipes


These Central Thai recipes are written for you to know how to cook the Thai food that Thais in the central Thailand eat every day. These recipes have successfully taught millions of westerners, expatriates and Thai students abroad how to cook Central 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 Central Thai food the way it's meant to be loved.
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- Condiment (1)
- Sauce (2)
- One Dish Deal or Lunch (1)
- Salad (2)
- Soup (1)
- Main Course (15)
- Dessert (3)
- Drink (1)
Condiment

Sauce

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Chili Fish Sauce
Nam Pla Prig
Chili fish sauce is one of the most popular sauce that you will be served with in Thailand.
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Hot Shallot Sauce with Toasted Rice
Prig Nam Jim
A simple sauce that with wonderful toasted rice aroma.
One Dish Deal or Lunch

Salad

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Crispy Catfish Green Mango Salad
Yum Pla Dook Foo
Sour unripe mango, biting lime, salty fish sauce and crisped catfish.
Soup

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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Fried Fish with Tamarind Sauce
Pla Rad Prig
Whole fish pan fried and served with spicy tamarind sauce
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Ginger and Chicken Stir Fry
Stir fried chicken with julienned ginger and wood ear mushrooms.
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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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Watermelon Rind Sour Curry
Gang Som Pleug Tang Mo
Watermelon rind cooked in sour and spicy non-coconut curry