Top Ten Favourite Thai Food: 5th Kaeng phet ped yang (Roast duck curry)

by Paisan

Ingredients
500 g. roast duck, chopped through the bone into small pieces
4 cups coconut milk
3 tablespoons red curry paste
1 teaspoon sugar
1 tablespoon fish sauce
2 red chilies
7-10 basil leaves

Method
1. Boiling the coconut milk and the red curry paste into a saucepan.
2. Season with sugar and fish sauce.
3. Add roast duck and heat until roast duck is cooked.
4. Sprinkle chilies and basil on top.

Red Curry Paste
2 dried chilies
2 red chilies
5 pepper corns
½ teaspoon cumin seeds
1 teaspoon chopped coriander root
3 chopped galangal root
5 cloves garlic
3 shallots
1 teaspoon grated kaffir-lime rind
½ teaspoon coriander seeds
1 tablespoon chopped lemon grass
½ teaspoon shrimp paste

Method
1. Put all the red curry paste ingredients except the shrimp paste in an electric blender and blend all the ingredients together.
2. Add shrimp paste and blend together until the mixture is smooth.

Top Ten Favourite Thai Food: 4th Pad kaphrao (Stir fried basil with chicken)

by Paisan

Ingredients
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
400 g. ground chicken
1 tablespoon minced garlic
5-10 Thai chilies, minced
2 tablespoons sugar
1 tablespoons shallot, minced
2 tablespoons fish sauce
1 cup fresh Thai holy basil leaves
1 teaspoon ground pepper

Method
1. Mince garlic, shallot and Thai chilies pepper together and stir-fry with vegetable oil in the pan about 15-20 seconds.
2. Add chicken and remaining ingredients and stir-fry the chicken is cooked.
3. Serve with rice and a small bowl of chopped Thai chilies in fish sauce.

Top Ten Favourite Thai Food: 3rd Pad Thai (Thai fried noodles)

by Paisan

Ingredients
300 g. Thai rice noodles
1 cup prawns, shelled
3 eggs1/2 cup baked tofu, cut into small pieces
½ cup ground roasted peanut
2 cup fresh bean sprouts
2 tablespoon fish sauce
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
2 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons tamarind
1 tablespoon ground dried shrimps
1 tablespoon chopped spring onion
½ teaspoon ground dried chili pepper
2 tablespoons minced garlic
½ cup Chinese chives-green
bean sprouts and lemon slices

Method
1. Soak the Thai rice noodles in warm water for 15 minutes. Then cut into 4 inches a pieces
2. Heat the vegetable oil in the frying pan and add the garlic until light brown.
3. Add prawns and stir until the prawns are cooked.
4. Add the tofu, tamarind and season with fish sauce and sugar.
5. Add the eggs and continue to stir the mixture.
6. Add the noodles and fry until brown.
7. Add bean sprouts, chives and stir a few more minutes.
8. Sprinkle with the ground dried shrimps, ground roasted peanut and chili pepper.9. Garnish with bean sprouts, lemon slices and chopped spring onion.

Top Ten Favourite Thai Food: 2nd Gaeng keow wan gai (Green curry with chicken)

by Paisan

Ingredients
300 g. chicken breast, sliced into ½ x 2 inch
2 cups coconut milk
2 tablespoons green curry paste
1 cup Thai egg-plant
2 green chilies, sliced lengthwise
2 tablespoons fish sauce
1/2 cup coconut cream
1 teaspoon sugar
red pepper for garnish

Method
1. Boiling the coconut milk and the green curry paste into a saucepan.
2. Add the chicken, fish sauce and sugar, heat until chicken is cooked
3. Add the Thai egg-plants and green chilies,
4. Add the coconut cream and stir together, simmer for 10-15 minutes
5. Garnish with the red pepper

Green curry paste
1 teaspoon shrimp paste
10 fresh green chilies
2 tablespoons chopped lemon grass
1 teaspoon chopped coriander root
1 tablespoon chopped shallot
1 tablespoon chopped garlic
1 teaspoon chopped galangal
1 teaspoon ground cumin seeds

Method
1. Put all the green curry paste ingredients except the shrimp paste in an electric blender and blend all the ingredients together.
2. Add shrimp paste and blend together until the mixture is smooth.

Top Ten Favourite Thai Food: 1st Tom yam kung (Spicy shrimp soup)

by Paisan

Ingredients
1 cup shelled shrimp
4 cups of water
1 cup mushrooms
3 kaffir lime leaves
2 tablespoons fish sauce3 tablespoons lime juice
2 lemon grass stalks, cut into 5-6 inches
½ teaspoon ground pepper
2 tablespoons sliced Thai chili pepper
½ teaspoon salt

Method
1. Boiling the water in a medium pot or saucepan.
2. Add the lemon glass stalks and kaffir-lime leaves into the pot.
3. Add the shrimp, cover and simmer for 3 minutes.
4. Add the mushroom, salt, ground pepper and Thai chili pepper and simmer for a few more minutes.
5. Remove the pot from stove, season with fish sauce, lime juice and stir together.
6. Add more fish sauce or lime juice that you like.

Top Ten Favourite Thai Food

by Paisan

Everybody is well known about Thai food because many Thai restaurants has established around the world. The unique flavour of Thai food is blended of fresh herbs and aromatic spices. Thai food is cooked with basic ingredients such as garlic, chilies, pepper, lime juice, lemon grass and coriander leave. The main food in Thailand is rice. Although rice is the main food of Thais, but we aren’t eat rice alone. We must have some dishes (soup, curries or fried vegetable) to eat with rice.

In July 1999, the Office of the National Culture Commission in Ministry of Culture announced the top ten Thai dishes best liked by foreigners. The Office had conducted a survey of Thai restaurants all over the world to find out ten favourite Thai dishes of foreigners. In the survey 1,500 Thai restaurant in America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa were asked to fill in a questionnaire. However, only 500 restaurants which have Thai chefs and offer the authentic Thai food were qualified for being taken into consideration. The results were the top ten Thai dishes which are listed below in order of their percentages of popularity:

1. Tom Yam Kung (spicy shrimp soup) 99%
2. Kaeng Keow Wan Kai (green curry with chicken) 82%
3. Pad Thai (Thai fried noodles) 70%
4. Pad Kaphrao (stir fried basil with chicken) 52%
5. Kaeng Phet Pet Yang (roast duck curry) 50%
6. Tom Kha Kai (chicken in coconut soup) 47%
7. Yam Nua Yang (spicy roast beef salad) 45%
8. Pork Satay (roast pork coated with turmeric) 43%
9. Kai Phat Met Mamuang Himmaphan (fried chicken with cashew nut) 42%
10. Phanaeng Kai (chicken in coconut cream) 39%