Thai spices and herbs

Thai spices and herbs

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.

Red peppers

Thai spices and herb 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.

【Cooking used】

  • Green curry (green curry)
  • Somtum (blue papaya salad)

Dried red pepper

Thai spices and herbs dried chillies

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.

【Cooking used】

  • Red curry (red hot curry)

Cinnamon

Thai spice and herb 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.

【Cooking used】

  • Massa man curry (Islamic style curry)
  • Yellow curry (yellow curry)

Octagon

Thai spice and herbs octagon

Spice essential for Chinese Thai cuisine. It is sweetly scented, in Thailand it is used for boiled dishes and sweets.

【Cooking used】

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garlic

Thai spice and herb 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.

【Cooking used】

  • Papun Phi Dane (stir-fried bean fried)

shallot

Thai spice and herbal shalot

It has scent like tsun and stuffing nose, spicy taste, it is used for scenting Tom Yum and salad.

【Cooking used】

  • Tom yum cun (shrimp's spicy soup)
  • Yam-uen Sen (Harusa salad)

Thai ginger

Thai spice and herbs 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.

【Cooking used】

  • Tom · car · guy (chicken ginger and coconut milk soup)

Raw pepper

Thai spices and herbs 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.

【Cooking used】

  • Pat prick · plaquek · prick tie on (pepper stir-fried pepper with squid)

Tamarind

Thai spice and herbal 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.

【Cooking used】

  • Pattay (Thai style fried noodles)

Manor (Thai lime)

Thai spice and herb manao (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.

【Cooking used】

  • Yam-uen Sen (Harusa salad)
  • Carpat (fried rice)

Kobumikan

Thai Spice and Herbal Cobumican

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.

【Cooking used】

  • Green curry (green curry)
  • Tom yum cun (shrimp's spicy soup)

lemongrass

Thai spices and herbs 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".

【Cooking used】

  • Tom yum cun (shrimp's spicy soup)

Coriander

Thai spices and herbal pastries

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.

【Cooking used】

  • Yam-uen Sen (Harusa salad)
  • Quittiono / Namsai (Thai-style ramen men)

Small green onion

Thai spices and herbs small leek

Many things are often accompanied by garnishes of cooking, Thai people eat rawly for rework.

It is served with fried rice and patties.

【Cooking used】

  • Cao Pot (fried rice)
  • Pattay (Thai style fried noodles)

mint

Thai spice and herb 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.

【Cooking used】

  • Lapse (beef with ground beef)

Sweet basil

Thai spice and herbsuit basil

There is a strong scent and bittern, add it as curry ornaments, or put it in a salad.

【Cooking used】

  • Red curry (red hot curry)

Holy basil

Thai spice and herbal 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".

【Cooking used】

  • 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.

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