Thai vegetarian Recipes

These vegetarian 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 Vegetarian 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 Vegetarian Thai food the way it's meant to be loved.

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Appetizer

Fried Tofu with Peanut Dipping Sauce

Tou Hu Tod

Fried tofu served with spicy cilantro and peanut sauce

Condiment

Cucumber in Vinegar

Ahjaad

Sliced cucumber in vinegar

Sauce

Chinese Chive Dumpling Sauce

Nam Jim Gui Chai

A little sweet, a little sour soy sauce base with a hint of heat.
Sweet and Sour Sauce

Nam Jim

Sweet, sour and hot sauce versatile to fried food.

One Dish Deal or Lunch

Giant Noodle Rolls

Goi Tiew Lohd

Tofu, bean sprouts and shrimp wrapped in fresh noodles and served with a spicy sauce
Pad Thai

Stir fried rice noodles with chives, bean sprouts and shrimp.

Snack

Chinese Chive Dumplings

Gui Chai

Chinese chive dumplings with hot chili soy sauce.
Crispy Roti

Roti

Crunchy fried dough topped with sweetened condensed milk and sugar.

Salad

Bamboo Shoot Yum

Soop Naw Mai

Shredded bamboo shoots boiled in wild Thai leaves with hot lime sauce.
Cucumber Salad

Yum Tang Gua

Sliced cucumber, tomato, onion dressed in Thai sauce
Green Papaya Salad

Som Tum

Shreded green papaya, cherry tomatoes, green beans with lime dressing
Tropical Yum

Yum Tawai

A variety of tropical vegetables with sesame curry sauce.

Soup

Mushroom Tom Yum

Tom Yum Hed

Spicy and sour oyster mushroom soup with lemon grass broth
Vegetarian Tom Yum Hed

Tom Yum Hed

Spicy and sour vegetarian mushroom soup cooked with Thai herbs

Main Course

Basil Eggplant

Pud Makua Yow

Stir fried eggplant with basil and chili pepper.
Crispy Fried Okra

Grajiab Tod

Okra crispy fried in a light batter served with chili fish sauce.
Crunchy Squash Blossoms

Dok Fugtong Tod

Squash blossoms, lightly dusted in flour and pan fried.
Grilled Chicken

Gai Yaang

Thai grilled chicken, marinated in lemongrass, garlic, salt and pepper.
Nam Prig Noom

์์์Nam Prig Noom

Popular northern meal; green chili sauce, pork rinds and sticky rice
Rice

Kow Su-ay

Simple rice, cooked in water. Successfully!
Sticky Rice

Kow Neuw

Steamed sticky rice -- an essential part of regional Thai cuisine
Stir Fried Pumpkin

Pud Fug Tong

Squash stir fried with garlic and pepper.
Vegetarian Pumpkin Curry

Gang Ped Fug Tong Mungsavirat

Vegetarian creamy, mild pumpkin curry
Vegetarian Stir Fried Pumpkin Shoots

Pud Yod Fug Tong

Crunchy pumpkin shoots stir fried with garlic and salt.
Vegetarian Stir Fried Squash Blossoms

Pad Dok Fug Tong

Easy stir fried squash blossoms with garlic.

Dessert

Fruits

Polamai

Tropical fruits you may not have heard of, cut into bite size pieces.
Mango on Sticky Rice

Kow Neuw Mamuang

Ripe mango served on a bed of coconut milk soaked sticky rice.
Miniature Fruit

Loog Choob

Miniature fruits made from mung bean paste cooked in coconut milk.
Mung Bean Pudding

Tau Suan

Sweet mung bean pudding topped with coconut milk
Rubies in Coconut Milk

Tub-tim Grob

Crunchy water chestnut coated with tapioca flour in coconut milk served with ice
Sticky Rice Balls in Coconut Milk

Boa Loy

Sticky rice flour pearls in sweet coconut milk.
Tapioca Pudding with Young Coconut

Saku Peiak Maprow On

Tapioca pudding in warm coconut milk

Drink

Bael Fruit Tea

Cha Matoom

Hot, fragrant tea made from dried bael fruit
Coconut Juice

Nam Maprow On

Cold coconut juice for hot days
Thai Tea

Cha

The famous bright orange sweet tea with a distinct flavor

Recipe Component

Vegetarian Red Curry Paste

Prig Gang Mungsavirat

Vegetarian red curry paste
Vegetarian Southern Red Curry Paste

Prig Gang Tai Mung Sawirat

Southern red curry paste made vegetarian. A base for many other southern dishes.