THAI COOKING CLASSES
Learn to cook authentic Thai food in our kitchen or in the comfort of your own kitchen! Working with authentic Thai ingredients and cooking methods will allow the students to learn and create the flavors of this unique cuisine.
Basic introduction to Thai Cuisine
Basic introduction to Thai Cuisine
Basic introduction to Thai Cuisine
Thai cuisine and the culinary traditions and cuisines of Thailand's neighbors, especially India, Malaysia & Indonesia, have mutually influenced one another over the course of many centuries.
Thai cooking places emphasis on lightly prepared dishes with strong aromatic components and a spicy edge. In our way of cooking, it's rare to use exact measures when it come to seasoning the dish. Instead, when cooking Thai food wetted to follow this saying "cook with your heart".
Traditional Thai cuisine loosely falls into four categories: tom (boiled dishes), yam (spicy salads), tam (pounded foods), and gaeng (curries). Deep-fries, stir-fries, and steamed dishes derive from Chinese cooking.
Thai food is known for its enthusiastic use of fresh (rather than dried) herbs and spices. Common flavors in Thai food come from garlic, galangal, coriander/cilantro, lemongrass, shallots, pepper, kaffir lime, shrimp paste, fish sauce, and chilies. Palm sugar, made from the sap of certain Borassus palms, is used to sweeten dishes while lime and tamarind contribute sour notes.
Salt in Thai cooking
Basic introduction to Thai Cuisine
Basic introduction to Thai Cuisine
An ingredient found in many Thai dishes and used in every region of the country is nam pla, a clear fish sauce that is very aromatic. Fish sauce is a staple ingredient in Thai cuisine and imparts a unique character to Thai food. Fish sauce is prepared with fermented fish that is made into a fragrant condiment and provides a salty flavor.
Soy sauce (Soya sauce) made from soy beans, wheat flour, salt and water
Vegetarians who would like to avoid fish sauce can use table salt, sea salt or soy sauce to season their food. Likewise those who have diet restrict with gluten-free can use fish sauce or salt as substitutes for soy sauce, which does contain gluten.
Another important ingredient used in some Thai food is shrimp paste, It is primarily made from finely crushed shrimp or krill mixed with salt and then fermented for several weeks. It is an essential ingredient in many curry and sauces. It's aroma is pungent (some people don't like it), but it's an essential ingredient that's used in certain dish, especially curry paste.
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