One of the most famous Asian cuisines - Thai cuisine. Many specifically go to Thailand in gastronomic tours to enjoy the famous soup tom-yam, fried noodles, shrimp sharp and amazing fruit. The composition of foods is very harmonious thanks to a combination of sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and particularly pungent taste.

Key Features

Thailand - one of the most attractive tourist destinations on the planet. And the secret of the appeal of the country, not only in the beautiful climate, stunning nature and exotic customs, but also in the original Thai cuisine.

As in other Asian countries, the basis for the menu here is rice, which is eaten with meat and fish, seafood and vegetables. It does not make food monotonous, because the rice varieties in Thailand are many and they are all very tasty. Besides rice, like in Thailand and noodles. It is also very diverse, because it is made not only from wheat flour, and rice or mung bean flour.

No taboo Thai cooking does not recognize: it is possible to eat pork, beef Beef - Meat Guide , Chicken or any seafood - the main thing that all the ingredients are fresh and the dishes were benign. Meat eating less than the fish and meat dishes in often added seafood and coconut milk. A very common dishes of several kinds of meat, cooked together. Many of the dishes are chicken and duck is most often used for the preparation of festive dishes. Love here and insect - lovers can enjoy the exotic always in Thailand fried in boiling oil scorpions, cockroaches, caterpillars.

Soups in Thailand - an integral part of the meal. Usually they are eaten along with other dishes. Can not do without meals and fish dishes. Very often, the fish, both marine and river, cooked whole, only clean it. Fish eat not only fresh but also salted or dried.

Thais love spicy seasonings, and a whole range of taste national cuisine can be described as sharp-sweet and sweet. My favorite seasoning - Thai curry, Kaeng. To compensate for the burning taste of spices, the best jam dishes seasoned Kaeng, rice. It is also widely used fish sauce, which has a very specific flavor and original taste. It is this, along with pepper sauce spices makes Thai cuisine so original and recognizable.

An important ingredient in many Thai dishes is coconut milk, which is made from ripe nuts. This ingredient is used to prepare a plurality of meat and fish dishes, softening excessively sharp tastes.

But the sweetness in Thai cooking are presented rather poorly. A variety of fruits, puddings, banana, rice, eggs and milk and meringue - here, perhaps, and the entire range of popular desserts.

Thai meal

Thais do not use knives: As a rule, all the dishes beforehand cut into small pieces, so they are very convenient to eat. Each consumer can combine the taste different ingredients, making the most pleasant for a combination of flavors. In Thailand, there is no such thing as a sequence of serving dishes - all dishes are put on the table at the same time. The entire meal is ready to eat and has reached room temperature. Only rice, without which does not do any one meal, served hot to him steaming.

There are dishes can be in any order and in any combination, fully trusting their own taste. However, Thais generally prefer to finish the meal with fruit.

The most common cooking method - braising. At the same time products are often wrapped in lotus leaves. It is used as a quick frying in boiling oil. All the ingredients are subjected to a short heat treatment, but cooking dinner the cook can take a lot of time. This is not least due to the thorough preparation and cutting the ingredients, as well as the design of ready-made dishes. Thais are paying special attention to the harmony of flavor combinations. For example, shrimp soup with coconut milk blends five tastes, five elements: sweet coconut milk and pineapple, chilli, salty fish sauce, bitter herbs, sour lemons and limes.

Stern recipe Thai food does not exist: only experienced cook can determine what proportion of ingredients and spices are a number of optimal in a particular case. Therefore, prepare their own delicious Thai cuisine for those who are not well represent what results you need to achieve, it can be difficult.

Popular dishes

The most famous Thai dishes - is, of course, the soup "Tom Yam". This dish is prepared from seafood, lemon grass, lime leaves, pepper and coconut. This spicy soup with a pleasant harmonious taste is considered to be the original card of the Thai cuisine. Noteworthy, however, and chicken soup with the addition of coconut milk and spices.

Also of note is fried noodles, which is complemented by a variety of seasonings. Among the seasonings can include bean sprouts, shrimp, tofu, eggs, fish sauce and, of course, hot pepper. It goes well with noodles and chicken curry - a dish with a sweet and spicy taste.

Interestingly dish Moo Sa-Te - pork marinated with turmeric. First, the meat is marinated in a mixture of curry, fruit juice and turmeric, then roasted on skewers. Pork Pork - meat guide   served two sauce: based on coconut milk and peanuts, and sweet and sour sauce with shallots and cucumber.

Memorable and Thai papaya salad. In addition, it includes fruits and tomatoes, asparagus beans and other vegetables. Lettuce has a low in calories and very helpful. I do not like it only to those who do not like spicy food. For such people, the Thai chefs offer, such as fried spring rolls Pancakes - a delicious symbol of the sun   with a sauce of Japanese apricot, which are not burning and sweet taste.

Maria Bykov

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