Recipes
You can also whip up delicious Thai dishes in your kitchen at home in Germany. Go on, give it a try! I’ve put together a few recipes for you that are simple and relatively easy to cook. And best of all: they’re not too spicy ;)
Kitchen Tips - Cooking Thai Food
If you want to cook Thai food, there are plenty of little tricks and tips that can help. These are all things I’ve found genuinely helpful over many years!
Whether it’s special little kitchen gadgets or how to use seasonal Thai herbs.
Thai vegetables and spices
Thai cuisine combines sweet and salty, spicy and sour in a truly unique way. Vegetables and, above all, spices play a central role, along with spice blends and specially prepared pastes.
You can now find most of the vegetables used in Thai cuisine at Asian grocery stores, too. There are still a few exceptions, though—for example, my favorite vegetable, morning glory (water spinach), and green papayas. These are essential ingredients in the famous papaya salad (som tam) from Isan in the northeast, and when available here, they’re extremely expensive! That’s why this popular dish is rarely served in Thai restaurants in Germany, or is made with white cabbage instead of papaya.
Some Thai herbs and spices have a flavour all their own. Take galangal, also known as Thai ginger, which has a much more pronounced citrus aroma than regular ginger. Thai basil, too, tastes quite different from the basil we know at home. Its distinctive flavour is slightly sweet, with a hint of anise.