Thai challenging Recipes


These challenging 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.
Find Recipes
- Appetizer (4)
- Sauce (1)
- One Dish Deal or Lunch (11)
- Snack (1)
- Salad (3)
- Soup (3)
- Main Course (15)
- Rice Soup and Porridge (1)
- Dessert (2)
- Recipe Component (7)
Appetizer

Sauce

One Dish Deal or Lunch

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Chicken on Rice with Hot Yellow Bean Sauce
Kow Mun Gai
Chicken on rice cooked in chicken broth served with spicy soy bean sauce
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Noodles with Fish Curry Sauce
Kanom Jeen Nam Ya
Curry fish sauce over rice noodles with fresh and boiled vegetables
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Pad Thai
Stir fried rice noodles with chives, bean sprouts and shrimp.
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Shrimp Paste Rice
Kow Klook Gapi
Rice mixed with shrimp paste spiced with shreded green mango and shallots served with fried egg, sweetened pork.
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Tom Yum Noodles
Guay Tiew Moo Tom Yum
Spicy and sour noodle soup served with crushed peanuts, powdered chili and lime juice
Snack

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.
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Northern Thai Eggplant Salad
Yum Makua Praw
Spicy northern Thai raw eggplant salad with minced pork.
Soup

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Tom Yum Goong
Shrimp in clear spicy soup made from lemon grass, kaffir lime, hot pepper, lime juice and fish sauce
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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Mee Grob
Crunchy sweet and sour rice noodles.
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Salted Crab Sauce
Lohn Pboo Kem
Creamy coconut sauce with salted crabs served with fresh vegetables.
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Steamed Curried Fish
Haw Moak
Steamed, marinated fish in curry paste and coconut milk on vegetables.
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Vegetarian Stir Fried Pumpkin Shoots
Pud Yod Fug Tong
Crunchy pumpkin shoots stir fried with garlic and salt.
Rice Soup and Porridge

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Pork Rice Porridge
Joke Moo Sub
Rice porridge with ground pork balls, chopped cilantro, green onion and ginger.
Dessert

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Mango on Sticky Rice
Kow Neuw Mamuang
Ripe mango served on a bed of coconut milk soaked sticky rice.
Recipe Component

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Basic Red Curry Paste
Prig Gang Kua
Basic Red Curry Paste or Prig Gang Kua is the most basic curry paste.
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Green Curry Paste
Prig Gang Kiew Wan
Spicy green curry paste made with fresh Thai green chili peppers.
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Massaman Curry Paste
Prig Gang Mussamun
Homemade fragrant Massaman Curry Paste filled with roasted spices
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Namya Curry Paste
Prig Gang Namya
Curry paste for fish curry, made with peppers, lemongrass, garlic, shallots, Chinese keys, salt and pickled fish
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Southern Red Curry Paste
Prig Gang KuaTai
Bright red and very spicy hot curry paste from southern Thailand.