Thai Food

Author: kazama amazak

Thailand have many famous food that being known all around the world such as Tomyumgoong, Pad Tai and etc. Thai Foods have its own characteristic. They are hot, spicy and delicious.

Thai food is the food that control six balance fundamental flavors in every dishes. The six fundamental flavors in Thai food are salty, sweet, sour, spicy, bitter, and oily

Salty � Salty in thai food mostly used fish sauce. Fish sauce in one of important ingredient in Thai food. Moreover in every meal of Thai people. There is a small bowl of fish sauce included. Anyway Thai food use the other souce for salty, too such as salt or soy sauce.

Sweet � In cooking the sweet in thai food. Mostly sweet in thai food come from sugar. There are also many kind of sugar in Thai food, such as brown sugar, coconut palm sugar, jaggery and palm sugar in the form of cakes.

Sour � In Thai food, Sour are from vinegar, lime juice. There are also the ingredient that are not in any foods like tamarine vinegar, citrus hystrix juice, sour orange juice and the sour flavor from tamarine leaf, garcina, garcina leaf and acacia leaf. All these sour flavors are in thai food only.

Hot (spicy) � The spicy flavor in Thai food is very hot, Mostly come from Capsicum frutescents.

Oily � Most curry thai food used coconut cream for oily flavor. Oily in thai foods also come from other vegetable oil or fat.

Bitter � Come from animal entrails and some leaf. Thai people believe that the bitter flavor food have the effect of medicine.

FeelThailand.com
This article is free for republishing
Source: http://www.articlealley.com/article_87652_26.html

What has Thai Food got to offer for Vegetarians?

Author: tony.ailton

For good reasons, Thai cuisine is one of the most popular in the world. Although popularly described as a single cuisine, Thai food is actually best characterized as a combination of four regional cuisines coming from Northern, Northeastern, Central and Southern Thailand.

A glance at the menues of Thai restaurants in western countries suggests that there is almost no place for vegetarian food in Thai cuisine. However, this is not the truth. Most Thai dishes consist of rice with vegetables, meat and sauce on top. Meat and fish or sea food are viewed as just one portion of a meal and not as the primary ingredient of the meal.Much of the flavour of Thai food comes from the sauces and vegetables, so you can frequently substitute bean curd or other ingredients that you do eat for the specified meat.

Below, you will find a vegetarian meal from Central Thailand.

Vegetarian Thai Stew
Ingredients:
2 sweet potatoes
2 carrots
2 onions
3 cakes of tofu (bean curd)
250 grams of ricestraw mushrooms
15-20 small cherry tomatoes
150 grams of green beans
1 tbsp of light soy sauce
1 tbsp of dark soy sauce
3 cups of vegetable stock
2 tbsp of arrowroot starch
salt and pepper
vegetable oil

Wash and cut the tomatoes into pieces and then fry them in the oil.
Cut the carrots into 1-inch pieces and the onions into quarters.
Wash the mushrooms and cut them into halves.
Cut the tofu into flat pieces, about 1/2-inch thick.
Marinate the tofu in dark soy sauce for about 20 minutes.
Fry the marinated tofu until it's brown and firm.
Add the vegetables, soy sauce, salt and pepper.
Mix the starch with water and add it to the stew.
Boil the stew for a few seconds and serve it in a warm bowl.

Tony has volunteered in many Thai restaurants ranging from simple food stalls to luxury restaurants all over Thailand. He has collected more than 500 recipes, mostly vegetarian dishes. He is going to publish his recipes on his website for vegetarian Thai food.
This article is free for republishing
Source: http://www.articlealley.com/article_131536_26.html

200+ Delicious Thai Food Recipes eBook Free

Author: Suthep Sachasiri

Over 200 of the most famous and mouth-watering Thai Food Recipes.

Delicious Thai Cuisine offers an in-depth look at the unique culture origins and influences behind Thai Cuisine. Thai foods are food you can enjoy cooking as much as eating. Wonderful tastes can be created in your own kitchen with a minimum of fuss.

Delicious Thai Cuisine is as prepared in private home, street stalls and even palace

Delicious Thai Cuisine includes everything from curry pastes, sauces, snacks and appetizers, soups, salad and vegetables, main courses (chicken, meat, and seafood), curries, rice & noodles, and desserts.

Download this wonderful e-Book for free!

click here: http://hot-giveaways.blogspot.com/2007/02/200-delicious-thai-food-recipes.html

About the Author

Suthep maintains a free listing blog on the latest internet products and services giveaway at http://hot-giveaways.blogspot.com. You can now download over $10,000 of softwares, ebooks and services for free through the blog
This article is free for republishing
Source: http://www.articlealley.com/article_135371_26.html