A Bite of Life in SF: Important Ingredients of Thai Food

There are some important ingredients and herbs that make Thai food delicious and special. The tastes of Thai food is sour, sweet and spicy. I will introduce some important ingredient that your should put into when you cook Thai food.

Galangal: Used in Thai soup or in curry paste. It has various forms fresh, dry. powdered or frozen.

Thai Sweet Basil: This fragrant relative of common basil is used in most curry dishes, fresh one is far superior.

Curry Paste: There are many kind soy curry in complete Thai cuisine, that's totally different with India curry of Japanese curry. You should go to oriental markets and larger supermarkets, but local market is best.

Fish Sauce: Substitues for sly in most Thai dishes. Each brand has a different salt content that can affect the flavor of dishes.

Kaffir Lime Leaves: It's an very important herb in preparing curry dishes, can be purchased dry, fresh or frozen.

Green Lemon: It's totally different with the yellow and green lemon that you buy from common market. It's special lemon that grow up in Thailand. It much more greener, smaller much sour.

Lemongrass: This ia sn essential herb that is used in curry paste and two well-known soups, Tom Yum Goong and Kai Dom Khaa. This herb is also reputed to be good for nervous systems. It makes flovr special and sour. It's different that you squeeze lemon into dishes.

Mangos: A sweet delicious tropical fruit that can either be eaten ripe or green. Good in salads, desserts and drinks.