Tom Kha Gai or Kai

Tom Kha Gai (ต้มข่าไก่ - Coconut Milk Soup with Chicken) 

Ingredients
2 cups coconut milk
1 cup chicken stock
2-3 medium pieces fresh galangal, peeled and sliced
3 chicken breast fillets (cut into well pieces)
2 teaspoons chilies, finely chopped
1 tablespoon fish sauce
1 teaspoon sugar
1/2 cup fresh coriander leaves
5 coriander leaves for garnish


Preparations

1. Add coconut milk, chicken stock and galangal in a pan.
2. Bring to boil and simmer over low heat for 8 minutes, stirring occasionally.
3. Add chicken pieces and chilli to pan, simmer for another 6 minutes.Continue stirring until cooked and all ingredients mixed well.

4. Season with fish sauce and sugar. Add coriander leaves Before serving, garnished with remaining coriander leaves.

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Kaeng phed Ped Yang ( แกงเผ็ดเป็ดย่าง)

Kaeng phed Ped Yang

Red Curry with Roasted Duck is one of the most popular types of curries in Thai restaurants outside of Thailand. See our website for the Homemade Red Curry Paste recipe or if you are short of time, substitute ready-made canned curry paste with great results.
Ingredients
    * 1 roasted duck, deboned and cut into 1 inch strips
    * 2 1/2 cups canned coconut milk
    * 10 cherry tomatoes
    * 1 cup eggplant, cut into bite-sized pieces or sweet English/Spring peas
    * 6 pieces of rambutan (canned) or pineapple, cut into bite sized pieces
    * 4 fresh kaffir lime leaves, torn into pieces (optional)
    * 1 tsp sugar
    * 1/2 tsp sea salt
    * 2 tbsp Thai fish sauce (Golden Boy brand is preferred)
    * 1/2 cup water (or chicken stock)
    * 1 1/2 tbsp vegetable cooking oil (not olive oil)
    * 3 tbsp red curry paste (recipe on our site or substitute canned red curry paste)
Preparation
Put vegetable oil into wok over medium heat and add the red curry paste, stir well, add 3/4 cups coconut milk and stir to mix thoroughly.

Add the duck and stir well. Next pour the mixture into a pot, add the remaining coconut milk, water, tomatoes, rambutans, or pineapple, eggplants, or sweet peas, kaffir lime leaves, sugar, salt, and fish sauce. Bring to a boil and remove from heat.
This recipe is from the cookbook Authentic Thai Food, International Thai Cooking for sale in our online market.
More red curry recipes: Thai Red Curry Chicken with homemade Red Curry Paste and another Homemade Red Curry Paste recipe using traditional preparation techniques.
You might also like to read this article about the different types of Thai Curry.
Shop for ready-made Thai curry pastes in our online Thai grocery.

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Pad Ka-prao Goong

Ingredients
450 grams medium-sized shrimps, cleaned, shelled and deviened
5 cloves garlic, finely chopped
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
2 teaspoons black soy sauce
2 tablespoons fish sauce
1 cup fresh holy basil
5-10 chillies, chopped and pounded coarsely
Dash of ground white pepper
Preparations
1. Heat a wok until the oil is hot, then add garlic and stir until golden and aromatic. Then add shrimp, and continue Stir-frying until shrimp is nearly cooked.
2. Add chillies and sprinkle black soy sauce over the mixture and stir-fry another 15-20 seconds.
3.Then add fresh basil leaves and fish sauce to taste. Stir and mix well. Sprinkle with white pepper. Stir and transfer to a serving dish. Serve immediately with hot steamed rice.

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Traditional Pad Thai

Thaditional Pad Thai 

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Ingredients


Pad Thai in Wok
1/2 lb. dried thin gkuay dtiow or rice noodles (also known as ban pho to the Vietnamese)
3 Tbs. fish sauce (nahm bplah), to taste
3 or more Tbs. tamarind juice the thickness of fruit concentrate, to taste
2 Tbs. palm or coconut sugar, to taste

4 Tbs. peanut oil
1/3 lb. fresh shrimp, shelled, deveined and butterflied
3/4 cup firm pressed tofu, cut into thin strips about an inch long, half an inch wide and a quarter inch thick
4-5 cloves garlic, finely chopped
3 shallots, thinly sliced (or substitute with half a medium onion)
1/4 cup small dried shrimp
1/4 cup chopped sweetened salted radish
2-3 tsp. ground dried red chillies, to desired hotness
3 eggs
3 cups fresh bean sprouts
1 cup garlic chives, cut into 1 1/2-inch-long segments (optional)




Soak the dried rice noodles in cool or lukewarm tap water for 40 minutes to one hour, or until the noodles are limp but still firm to the touch. While the noodles are soaking, mix the fish sauce with the tamarind juice and palm sugar; stir well to melt the sugar. Taste and adjust flavors to the desired combination of salty, sour and sweet. Prepare the remaining ingredients as instructed.
When the noodles have softened, drain and set aside. Heat a wok over high heat until it is smoking hot. (Note: If your wok is small, do the stir-frying in two batches. The recipe may also be halved to serve two.) Add 2 teaspoons of oil and quickly stir-fry the shrimp until they turn pink and are almost cooked through. Salt lightly with a sprinkling of fish sauce and remove them from the wok.


Pad Thai on Plate
Swirl in the remaining oil, save for 1 teaspoon, to coat the wok surface and wait 20 to 30 seconds for it to heat. Add the tofu, frying 1 to 2 minutes, or until the pieces turn golden. Add garlic and stir-fry with the tofu for 15 to 20 seconds. Follow with the sliced shallots and cook another 15 seconds. Then add the dried shrimp, sweetened salted radish and ground dried chillies. Stir and heat through a few seconds.
Add the noodles and toss well with the ingredients in the wok. Stir-fry 1 to 2 minutes and when most of the noodles has changed texture and softened, push the mass up along one side of the wok. Add the teaspoon of oil to the cleared area, crack the eggs onto it and scramble lightly. When the eggs have set, cut into small chunks with the spatula and toss them in with the noodles.
Add the sweet-and-sour seasoning mixture. Stir well to evenly coat noodles. If the noodles are still too firm to your liking, sprinkle 1 to 2 tablespoons of water over them to help cook. Taste and adjust flavors as needed to your liking by adding more fish sauce or tamarind juice; if the noodles are not sweet enough, sprinkle in a small amount of granulated sugar.

When the noodles are cooked to your liking, toss in 2 of the 3 cups of bean sprouts and the garlic chives (if using). Sprinkle with half the chopped peanuts and return the shrimp to the wok. Stir and when the vegetables are partially wilted, transfer to a serving platter, or dish onto individual serving-size plates, and garnish with the remaining bean sprouts and chopped peanuts, the lime wedges, cilantro and green onions.
Serves 4 as a one-dish lunch. Squeeze lime juice over each portion before eating.

A Recipe of Kasma Loha-unchit

Recipe Copyright © 2000 Kasma Loha-unchit.

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