I think that the image that "Thai food is painful" is established, but in reality, half of Thai food is not spicy food.
Half of the Thai cuisine is a hot dish that had been in Thailand for the past and half is a spicy dish that was spread afterwards.
In the Kingdom of Thailing who like raw dishes and like hot dishes, new cooking laws are transmitted as immigrants from China moved to the Kingdom of 19, and as a result, Chinese Thai cuisine with Thai and Chinese cuisine was born It was.
As a result of the influence of Chinese immigrants, the spread of Thai food culture has spread and the repertoire of dishes is abundant as it is now.
This time, I will introduce the spicy food representative of Thailand, which has long been popular among people even among such Thai dishes.
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Characteristics of Thai peppers, which is put in hot dishes
The spicyness of Korean and Indian cuisine famous for hot is the spicy of dried chilli.
Even Thai cuisine, we use dried chili, but since we use a lot of raw chili, the nature of the spicy is quite different.
Thai peppers are harder to live than dried ones, with seeds larger than outer shells, smaller than larger ones, and chopped than round as hot as hot.
Red peppers
Red crimson red peppers seems to be spicy to see, but in Thailand it is used as a spice to give a red color, as well as paprika, besides giving a bitter taste.
It is spicy that you can eat without problems, unless you are raw, as well as sliced or sliced, used as a red coloring of the dish, not hard at ease.
It is big red chilli, there are few pungent taste to be mistaken for paprika, there are also things that are not very stimulating.
Green chili
Even among the peppers with various kinds, the most difficult one is called "PRECKENAE", it is a small green pepper of size about 2 ~ 3 cm.
Unlike red peppers, it is slightly stinky and refreshing, but unlike red peppers, it is not noticeable even when cooked, and if you put it in your mouth without knowing this red pepper, the spicyness that echoes the nerves will attack.
If you get used to this spicy you will feel tasty, but the person who eats for the first time may be in agony with the pain you have never tasted.
Some shops are equipped with blue peppers on the table, so Thai people may eat this peppers while living as if the Japanese eat pickles as well as to add spicy.
Spicy dishes using red peppers
Red curry
Red curry paste is made with shrimp miso and dried chilli.
If you keep it as it is, it is painful, so add coconut milk and add sweetness, add tomato, sweet and sour.
Red curry looks very hot with a red color and it looks very hot like it looks, it is popular with locals.
Green curry
Green paste is green because it uses abundant blue pepper abundantly.
Because it contains coconut milk, it is not only spicy but also sweet and mildly seasoned.
The fragrance of Thai herbs and the spicyness of blue peppers draws on.
Tom yam kung
A pleasant taste of shrimp, pungent taste, acidity, sweetness blended in deep taste.
Tom yum paste, blue pepper and red pepper, soup boiled with leaf of Thai ginger, lemon grass, cobumican.
It is hot, sour and fragrant cuisine which is representative of Thailand, it is becoming 1 of "Three great soup in the world".
Somtham
Isan (famous for hot dishes) (Northeastern Thailand) Local cuisine.
Put blue peppers, red peppers, palm sugar, Nampula, lime and others in blue papaya, it is a popular salad with hot, sweet and sour seasoned.
There are various types of somtums, but "Somtam Thai", which is eaten mainly in Bangkok, is comparatively spicy and has a seasoned and easy-to-eat flavor.
Yam Yuen Sen
Salad with Japanese red pepper and red peppers, Nampura and lime.
It is sweet and sour, seafood such as shrimp and squid, gorgeous salad with ground beef, the pungent taste of chilli stimulates the tongue.
Because it is sour or too hot depending on the shop, at such times, adding sugar a little makes it easier to eat.
Caro · Pat · Gapao · Gai
Stir-fried chicken and Holly Basil are the most popular menu in Thailand.
Blue pepper and red peppers are used, and when you make this dish you can see the smoke mixed with chili and garlic.
This dish made based on soy sauce is a delicious taste that spicy hot peppers work smoothly afterwards and are painful but crazy.
A rap
A cuisine with chilled meat, herbs of flour, onion, lime, mint, and roasted rice flour mixed.
Pepper is hot and hot, lime and herbs are refreshing, it is a dish suitable for alcoholic drink.
Thai food is addictive
How was it?
I introduced hot cooking representative of Thailand, but I think that it will be addictive if the authentic Thai food is once tasted.
While using raw chili peppers, it is not just painful, but the taste of Thai cuisine with sweetness and sourness is deep, and it is tasty which is crazy.
As well as those who like hot dishes, as well as those who do not like it, there are tricks to make it easier to eat when adding a small amount of sugar, so please challenge Thai spicy food.