Pad Thai
The real thing is sour, salty and only lightly sweet β a world away from the ketchup-orange version. Tamarind, palmβ¦
Sour, salty, sweet and hot, balanced in every bowl. 9 tested Thai recipes, from the everyday to the ambitious.
The real thing is sour, salty and only lightly sweet β a world away from the ketchup-orange version. Tamarind, palmβ¦
Cracking the coconut cream until the oil separates, then frying the paste in it, is the step that turns a flat curryβ¦
Warm coconut-soaked glutinous rice with cold ripe mango and a salty coconut sauce poured over. Naturally vegan, andβ¦
Thailand's most-eaten dish: minced pork fried hard with garlic and chillies, tossed with holy basil, and served overβ¦
The hot-and-sour prawn soup that defines Thai cooking: lemongrass, galangal and lime leaf simmered into a brothβ¦
The gentler sibling of tom yum: coconut milk smooths the sourness into something creamy and fragrant, with chickenβ¦
The mildest and most aromatic Thai curry, carrying Persian and Indian influence in its cinnamon, cardamom andβ¦
Fried rice with pineapple, cashews and a curry-scented edge, served in the hollowed shell if you are feelingβ¦
Green papaya pounded with garlic, chilli, lime, palm sugar and fish sauce in a clay mortar. Bruising rather thanβ¦