Thai Recipe Video: Beef Panang

Thai food recipes refer to the foods and cooking styles prominent in the south-east Asian country Thailand. The Thai food recipes are very popular for being hot, spicy and its balance of different flavors in the overall meal. These five flavors are hot and spicy, sweet, salty, sour and bitter. The Thai food recipes are considered popularly as a single cuisine for the country but the cuisines would more accurately be described as cuisines of the four major divisions of the country. These four divisions or regions are Northern, North-eastern, Southern and central and they share almost similar foods that were derived from their neighboring countries. For instance the southern curries tend to contain fresh turmeric and coconut milk whereas the people of north-eastern Thailand like lime juices in the dishes. The food recipes here are highly influenced by Laos.

Most of the popular dishes in the Thai food recipes were originally dishes popular in china and the dishes were included in Thai food recipes by Teochew people who are in majority among the Thai Chinese race of people. These dishes are Kway teow, Jok, Rad Na, Khao Mun Gai and Khao Kha Moo popularly known as Moo Pa-loh. The dishes of the Thai food recipes are popular for an exclusive use of spices, fresh herbs and fish sauce as well. Thai food recipes are very popular in countries like Australia, New Zealand and some western countries like the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada as well.

Style of serving in Thai food recipe: – A Thai full meal generally consists of a single dish accompanied by many complimentary dishes served together. Like many Asian countries rice is a major component of the cuisines of Thai food recipes. The very costly jasmine rice with a sweet smell is indigenous to Thailand. Steamed rice is served with highly aromatic curries and other dishes incorporating large quantities of lime juice, lemon grass and chillies. Sticky rice containing unusual balance of starch is a unique variety of rice used in Thai food recipes.
Thai food is eaten with a spoon and a fork. Chopsticks are rarely used to consume noodle soups. The fork in the left hand pushes food into the spoon. The Thais of the tribal areas in the north are used to consume sticky rice by rolling them into balls and dipping them into side dishes. The Thai-Muslims eat meals only with their right hands.
The cuisines of the Thai food recipes are often served with a lot of spicy condiments in order to embolden them. These spicy condiments range from sliced chilli peppers, dried chilli pieces to a spicy chilli sauce.

Ingredients: – The ingredient that is common to all dishes of Thai food recipes is nam pla, a very aromatic fish sauce. Shrimp paste which is prepared by combining salt and ground shrimp is also used extensively. The Thai food recipes of central and southern Thailand include the use of a variety of leaves like kaffir lime. The flavor of these leaves can be experienced in almost every soup prepared in Thai style. Other ingredients used in the Thai food recipes are pahk chee, curry pastes, rahk pahk chee, si-yu dahm, pong kah-ree tua fahk yao, prik Thai, nahm prik pao and nahmahn hoi.

Famous dishes: – The Thai dishes are popular in many western countries. The cuisines of the Thai food recipes that are liked by people are Jok, Khao Tom, Khao Pad, Pad Thai, Rad Na, Pad see ew, Pad kee mao etc. The Thai food recipes also use beef, duck, pork, tofu or seafood and chicken in their cuisines.