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List Of Thai Ingredients
This is a list of ingredients found in Thai cuisine. Herbs and spices Fresh herbs and spices Dried herbs and spices Pastes, sauces and condiments Vegetables Roots Flowers and tree leaves Edible fungi and algae Fruits and nuts Staple foods and other starches Meat and poultry Fish and seafood Insects Miscellanea See also * Thai cuisine * List of Thai dishes * List of Thai restaurants Following is a list of notable restaurants that specialize in Thai cuisine: * Anajak Thai, Los Angeles, California, U.S. * Camile (restaurant chain), Camile – an Irish restaurant chain that serves Thai cuisine * Eem (restaurant), Eem – Tha ... References Further reading * Bhumichitr, Vatcharin. ''The Essential Thai Cookbook,'' 192 pages, New York: Clarkson N. Potter Inc., 1994 External links Golden Mountain Brand saucesTiparos Brand fish sauceThai food glossary at ''Clay's Kitchen'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Thai Ingredients, List Of * Ingredients Cuisine-related ...
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Galangal Ready For Preparation
Galangal () is a rhizome of plants in the ginger family Zingiberaceae, with culinary and medicinal uses originating in Indonesia. It is one of four species in the genus ''Alpinia'', and is known for its pungent, aromatic flavor. Greater galangal (''Alpinia galanga'') is most commonly used, and is similar to ginger and turmeric. It is native to South Asia and Southeast Asia. Lesser galangal (''Alpinia officinarum'') and other types are also used, though less frequently. In traditional medicine, galangal is used to treat various ailments. It is a common ingredient in Thai, Indonesian, and Malaysian cuisine, and is also used in some traditional Chinese medicine. Differentiation The word ''galangal'', or its variant ''galanga'' or archaically ''galingale'', can refer in common usage to the aromatic rhizome of any of four plant species in the Zingiberaceae (ginger) family, namely: * ''Alpinia galanga'', also called ''greater galangal'', ''lengkuas'', ''Siamese ginger'' or ''laos' ...
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Thai Garlic กระเทียม
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Phat Kaphrao
''Phat kaphrao'' (, ; ), also spelled ''pad kaprow'', ''pad kaprao'', or ''pad gaprao'', is one of the most popular Thai dishes in Thailand. History ''Phat kaphrao'' likely gained popularity around 1957, having been adapted from Chinese cuisine. It is thought to be an adaptation of stir-fried beef with cumin leaves. ''Phat kaphrao'' was included in cookbooks as early as the late 1970s. It is prepared using fish sauce and monosodium glutamate only; following the stir-frying of the beef, rice is stir-fried to make fried rice. Asparagus beans, specifically the inner portion, and alcoholic snacks are paired with this dish. Ingredients ''Phat kaphrao'' consists of meat such as pork, chicken, beef, or seafood stir fried with Thai holy basil and garlic. It is served with rice and optionally topped with fried eggs. The main seasonings are soy sauce, Thai fish sauce, oyster sauce (optional), cane sugar, and bird's eye chili. Over time, ''phat kaphrao'' has evolved with the addi ...
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Holy Basil
''Ocimum tenuiflorum'', commonly known as holy basil, ''tulasi'' or ''tulsi'' (), is an aromatic perennial plant in the family Lamiaceae. It is widely cultivated throughout the Southeast Asian tropics. It is native to tropical and subtropical regions of Asia, Australia and the western Pacific. This plant has escaped from cultivation and has naturalized in many tropical regions of the Americas. It is an agricultural and environmental weed. ''Tulasi'' is cultivated for religious and traditional medicine purposes, and also for its essential oil. It is widely used as an herbal tea, commonly used in Ayurveda. It has a place within the Vaishnava tradition of Hinduism, in which devotees perform worship involving the plant or its leaves. Morphology Holy basil is an erect, many-branched subshrub, tall with hairy stems. Leaves are green or purple; they are simple, petioled, with an ovate blade up to long, which usually has a slightly toothed margin; they are strongly scented and h ...
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Fingerroot
''Boesenbergia rotunda'' (, , , ), commonly known as Chinese keys, fingerroot, lesser galangal or Chinese ginger, is a medicinal and culinary herb from China and Southeast Asia. In English, the root has traditionally been called fingerroot, because the shape of the rhizome resembles that of fingers growing out of a center piece. Description Fingerroot is a kind of ginger (''Zingiberaceae''). It is an annual crop and indigenous to southern Yunnan Province, China, to west Malaysia, growing in tropical rain forest. It has an underground stem, known as a rhizome. This spreads into many bunches in the same way as banana, ginger, galangal and turmeric. These structures accumulate nutrients and the middle part is more swollen than the head and bottom part. The inner part has a range of colours and aromas depending on the variety of fingerroot. The above-ground part is composed of a leaf stalk that has a sheath covering it. The leaf sheaths are red, the blades are oval in shape and the a ...
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Khanom Chin
''Khanom chin'' or ''Khanom jeen'' (, ; , ; , ) are fresh, thin white rice noodles in Thai cuisine which are made from rice sometimes fermented for three days, boiled, and then made into noodles by extruding the resulting dough through a sieve into boiling water. ''Khanom chin'' is served in many kinds of stock: coconut milk, fish curry, and chilli. Etymology and origin Although ''chin'' means "Chinese" in Thai, this type of noodle originated from the Mon people. The word ''khanom chin'' is probably derived from the Mon words ''hanom cin'' ( ). Eating ''khanom chin'' When ''khanom chin'' is served, the stock is added. Each locality has a different stock such as coconut stock, fish, curry sauce, chili sauce, and curry with coconut milk such as green curry, spicy pork sauce, and fish organ sour soup. Moreover, for children, there is also a sweet stock without spices combined with nuts. Khanom chin is eaten with fresh vegetables and pickles as condiments: in the north, pickled ...
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Miang Kham
Miang kham (, ; , ; , ; , ) is a traditional Southeast Asian snack from Thailand and Laos. It was introduced to the Thailand, Siamese court of Chulalongkorn, King Rama V by Dara Rasmi, Princess Dara Rasmi. In Laos, most people call it miang. The name ''miang kham'' translates to 'one bite wrap', from ''miang'' ('food wrapped in leaves') and ''kham'' ('a bite'). Ingredients Miang kham mostly consists of raw fresh leaves of Piper sarmentosum, lolot pepper (, ) or Erythrina fusca, purple coraltree (, ) that are filled with roasted coconut shavings and the following main ingredients chopped or cut into small pieces: *Shallots *Fresh red or green bird's eye chili peppers *Ginger *Garlic *Key lime (''Citrus × aurantiifolia''), including the peel *Chopped unsalted peanuts or cashew nuts *Small dried shrimps Background information Miang kham is a snack food that originated in the Lao regions of Thailand, originally using Lahpet, pickled tea leaves (called ''miang'' in the northern Thai ...
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Ginger
Ginger (''Zingiber officinale'') is a flowering plant whose rhizome, ginger root or ginger, is widely used as a spice and a folk medicine. It is an herbaceous perennial that grows annual pseudostems (false stems made of the rolled bases of leaves) about one meter tall, bearing narrow leaf blades. The inflorescences bear flowers having pale yellow petals with purple edges, and arise directly from the rhizome on separate shoot (botany), shoots. Ginger is in the family (taxonomy), family Zingiberaceae, which also includes turmeric (''Curcuma longa''), cardamom (''Elettaria cardamomum''), and galangal. Ginger originated in Maritime Southeast Asia and was likely domesticated first by the Austronesian peoples. It was transported with them throughout the Indo-Pacific during the Austronesian expansion ( Before Present, BP), reaching as far as Hawaii. Ginger is one of the first spices to have been exported from Asia, arriving in Europe with the spice trade, and was used by ancient Gre ...
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