Home Style Thai Recipes

Traditional Thai Cooking Thai cuisine is adaptable, innovative and dynamic. The best Thai cooking uses the freshest ingredients available to create the unique Thai taste. Thai taste can be defined as the use of all 5 flavors: spicy, sweet, salty, bitter and sour. Only Thai cuisine brings out all of these flavors to play together harmoniously in a meal.

Here in the West it may be difficult to find all the exotic ingredients used in Thai recipes, but do not despair. With patience, creativity and constant tasting as you cook, you can create delicious dishes at home using just a few of the essential ingredients such as fish sauce.

Cooking Thai food should be "sanook"- fun! Cooking can be meditative, relaxing and enjoyable. Especially when the recipes are not complex and turn out tasty.

To get started try our our home style Thai recipes here, like Pad Thai, Sticky Rice, Curry and Satay.

New Recipe Video: Laab Moo - Spicy Pork Salad.

Recipes by Category

Curry:	Chicken & Poultry:
Thai Green Curry	Pad Kee Mao Chicken Stir Fry 1
Thai Green Curry Paste	Stir Fry Chicken Pad Kee Mao 2
Easy Green Curry	Chicken Stir Fry Recipe Thai Holy Basil
Panang Curry	Supatra's Thai Grilled Chicken
Panang Curry Paste	Thai Grilled Chicken
Red Chicken Curry	Chicken Satay
Red Curry Paste 1	Tom Yum Gai (Chicken Soup)
Red Curry Paste 2	Thai Chicken Lemongrass
Sour Yellow Curry with Salmon	Thai Red Curry with Roasted Duck
Yellow Curry Paste	Sticky Rice & Stir-fried Curried Chicken
Yellow Chicken Curry & Curry Paste	Fish & Shrimp:
Thai Yellow Curry	Thai Fish Cakes (Tawt Mon)
Yellow Chicken Curry & Cucumber Relish	Kasma's Hot & Sour Shrimp Salad
Traditional Thai Curry	Easy Baked/Grilled Fish
Simple Sour Chicken Curry	Kasma's Spicy Prawns
Curry Crab	Thai Prawns with Aspargus
Choo Chee Curry	Fried Seafood with Chili Paste in Soybean Oil
Massaman Curry	Steamed Sea Bass with Thai Chili Paste
Massaman Curry Paste	Sour Curry Fish
Choo Chee Prawns & Mushrooms	Curried Fish Mousse
Appetizers:	Hot & Sour Dressing for Seafood Salads
Egg Rolls
Spring Rolls	Beef:
Thai Spring Rolls	Thai Beef Salad
Thai Sausage Salad	Braised Beef Soup
Thai Beef Salad	Red Curry with Beef
Rice:	Salads:
Jasmine Rice	Green Papaya Salad
Sticky Rice	Thai Cucumber Salad
Fried Rice (kao paht)	Thai Beef Salad (laab)
Desserts:	Thai Chicken Salad (laab)
Sticky Rice with Mango	Thai Seafood Salad
Black Sticky Rice Pudding	Kasma's Spicy Eggplant Salad
Kanom Krok	Chinese Chicken Salad
Pumpkin in Sweet Coconut Sauce	Noodles:
Corn Pudding Thai Style	Pad Thai Fried Noodles
Grilled Coconut Cake	Pad Thai Noodles
Sankaya (Pumpkin Custard)	Pad See-ew (Rice Noodles with Black Soy)
Soup:	Mee Krob
Chicken in Coconut Milk (Tom Kha)	Shrimp Macaroni
Tom Kha	Fundamentals:
Glass Noodle Soup	Thai Peanut Sauce
Tom Yum Goong	Homemade Coconut Milk
Tom Yum Taleh (Mixed Seafood)	Chili-Lime Fish Sauce
Tom Yum Goong with Roasted Chili Paste	Egg Roll Sauce
Vegetarian:	Coconut Cream
Thai Spring Rolls 2 (mushroom)	One Click Cooking:
Tofu with Garlic & Black Pepper	Perfect Pad Thai Noodles Kit
Vegetarian Peanut Sauce	Super Satay Set
Vietnamese Steamed Pumpkin Salad	Thai Iced Tea Kit
Spring Rolls	Thai Iced Coffee Kit
Pork:	Beverages:
Moo Satay	Thai Tea
Steamed Dumplings Filled with Pork	Thai Iced Coffee
Stir Fry Thai Pumpkin	Iced Vietnamese Coffee
Chinese 5 Spice Pork	Vietnamese-Style Hot Coffee
To Eat with Rice:	Iced Roselle Tea
Green Curry Crispy Noodles	Chrysanthemum Tea
Som Tum Malakor Papaya Salad	Other Asian Recipes:
Fried Spicy Bean Curd	Korean Seaweed Soup
Nam Prik Plah Too	Sweet and Tangy Dipping Sauce
Stir Fry Vegetables

About Thai Recipes

Most of the Thai recipes here are not elaborate but good useful everyday food that can be prepared with a reasonable expenditure of time and labor.

These recipes are mainly home-style i.e. not in the palace tradition. Written for Westerners working with limited time and using ingredients available in the United States (esp. if you use shop in our online Thai food market).

That said, the recipe should be a only a rough guideline. Thai recipes are highly adaptable. The characteristic flavors of Thai food come from the methods of cooking and ingredients used, not from precise quantities of the main seasonings. This means you should adapt the quantities, especially of things like fish sauce, garlic, and chilies, to suit your own tastes.

Like all great cuisines, the foods in season should be the most important factor to determine what to cook. If a certain ingredient is not available where you live, visit our online Thai food market, try a a substitute, or leave it out entirely. With imagination, experimentation, and knowledge, with constant tasting, you can cook delicious Thai food in the West.

Basic knowledge of the balance of the five flavors is key. There are many variations of any one Thai recipe, it depends on the cook, the season, the availability of ingredients, and the region.

Try a basic menu to get started.

Thai Cooking Tips

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Also see our step-by-step tutorials on vegetable garnishes, centerpieces and fruit carving.