Complex flavors mixed with pungent and sour taste of Thai dishes are variousThrough herbs and spices.
It is indispensable for Thai food,Introducing representative spices and herbs.
If you eat cuisine with these ingredients conscious, there may be new discoveries.
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Red peppers
There are many types of red pepper in Thailand, as the size gets smaller, the pungent taste will increase.
Especially hot spicy is small blue pepper like 2 cm called "PRECKENE".
Red peppers are often used for soups and salads, and blue peppers are used for "green curry", soup with meat dishes and seafood dishes.
- Green curry (green curry)
- Somtum (blue papaya salad)
Dried red pepper
Put it in soup as it is, make it into powder and make it seasoning.
"Red curry" paste is made by mixing dried chili and miso fermented shrimp.
- Red curry (red hot curry)
Cinnamon
In addition to sweets, it is sometimes used for stewed dishes along with octagonal etc in Thailand.
It is used for 'Massa Man Curry' which gained 1 place of delicious food ranking in the world.
- Massa man curry (Islamic style curry)
- Yellow curry (yellow curry)
Octagon
Spice essential for Chinese Thai cuisine. It is sweetly scented, in Thailand it is used for boiled dishes and sweets.
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garlic
In Thailand, there is no dish not containing garlic, so it is used abundantly in every dish.
Thai garlic has no smell than Japanese ones.
- Papun Phi Dane (stir-fried bean fried)
shallot
It has scent like tsun and stuffing nose, spicy taste, it is used for scenting Tom Yum and salad.
- Tom yum cun (shrimp's spicy soup)
- Yam-uen Sen (Harusa salad)
Thai ginger
Thai ginger characterized by a strong scent.
It is used for scenting soup and curry such as chicken coconut soup.
Even if it is cooked, it is hard and can not be eaten, so enjoy it for scenting only.
- Tom · car · guy (chicken ginger and coconut milk soup)
Raw pepper
It is different from red pepper, it gives a fragrant hot spicy, and it is put on food as a tassel.
Soft raw pepper goes well with seafood dishes with soft spicy.
- Pat prick · plaquek · prick tie on (pepper stir-fried pepper with squid)
Tamarind
Legume plant with sweetness like dried persimmons and sour like plum.
It is used to remove sweet and sour fruit from juice to make it juice, add acidity to dishes, and it is also used for seasoning Pasutai.
- Pattay (Thai style fried noodles)
Manor (Thai lime)
Small citrus fruit, similar to Japanese rice.
It is used for sourness such as salad and soup, and it is served with fried rice and patties.
- Yam-uen Sen (Harusa salad)
- Carpat (fried rice)
Kobumikan
Cobumican, having rugged cobs, squeezes the juice and seasons the soup, it also carves and scents the leather.
Also, leaves of Kobumikan are cooked together when making seafood soup, and it has a fresh flavor, so it is also used as an odor eliminator.
- Green curry (green curry)
- Tom yum cun (shrimp's spicy soup)
lemongrass
A plant of the grass family with a refreshing scent resembling lemon.
Lemongrass which is frequently used for soup and curry in Thai cuisine is also used for "Tom Yum Kyung".
- Tom yum cun (shrimp's spicy soup)
Coriander
It is variety of Thai cuisine in spicy style.
It is rich in vitamin minerals and it is indispensable for seasoning of soup.
It is said that it helps digestion and is effective in preventing food poisoning.
- Yam-uen Sen (Harusa salad)
- Quittiono / Namsai (Thai-style ramen men)
Small green onion
Many things are often accompanied by garnishes of cooking, Thai people eat rawly for rework.
It is served with fried rice and patties.
- Cao Pot (fried rice)
- Pattay (Thai style fried noodles)
mint
It is a refreshing herb and it is indispensable for salads.
As the smell of meat, it is used in large quantities for Isarn (Northeastern Thailand) cuisine dish.
- Lapse (beef with ground beef)
Sweet basil
There is a strong scent and bittern, add it as curry ornaments, or put it in a salad.
- Red curry (red hot curry)
Holy basil
In Thai language the name of Holy Basil is "Gapao".
There is a deep flavor in the perillae herbs, and when frying it gives a fragrant fragrance.
In Japan, I am familiar with this holy basil, chilli pepper, meat dishes cooked as "cooking name" "Gapao".
- Pat · Gapao · Gai (stir-fried chicken with Holly Basil)
Finally
How was it?
Ethnic flavorings of Thai cuisine are produced by various spices and herbs.
Some things are not used in Japanese cuisine, so even if you feel delicious when you eat, I think there are things you do not know which spices and herbs are being used.
I introduced this time only things that are used for typical Thai cuisine, so please have a look by all means when eating Thai cuisine with deep flavor.