Saturday, February 20, 2010

The Secret of Thai Cooking

Thai food is now very popular in America, with its unique assortment of herbs, spices and seasonings. Every dish is hand made from scratch with distinctive fresh ingredients like small chili peppers, lemon grass, galangal, cilantro roots, kefir lime and basil leaves.

To follow the authentic Thai traditional cooking, you’d depend mainly upon your own judgment, no measurement require! But since everyone is not a born gourmet, we can make Thai cooking much easier with exact measurement recipe.

Modern Thai cooking is not different from modern western cooking. Exact measurement is always the key for success. Hot, sour, salty and sweet are four fundamental flavors in Thai food. The secret of a good dish is the right balance of the four.
I will now reveal to you 2 secret recipes for Thai sauce. Authentic ingredients are substituted by easy-to-find ingredients for convenience sake.
Ingredients for one serving:
Thai stir-fry sauce
• 1 Tbsp. fish sauce
• 1 tsp. dark soy sauce
• 1 tsp. oyster sauce • ½ tsp. sugar
Vegetarian
• 1 Tbsp. light soy sauce
• 1 tsp. dark soy sauce
• 1 tsp. vegetarian oyster sauce • ½ tsp. sugar
Pad Thai sauce
• 2 Tbsp. fish sauce
• 1 Tbsp. sugar
• 1 Tbsp. white vinegar
Vegetarian
• 2 Tbsp. light soy sauce
• 1 Tbsp. sugar
• 1 Tbsp. cider vinegar

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