Chili can be added to have spicy food. Thais use this abundantly in preparing authentic food. Thai people developed a choice of chili after sixteen century. There is confusion whether the Spanish or Portuguese businessmen introduced it first to the Siam. Since then Thai people are using this spice enormously in cooking Thai food. They blend it with other herbs and make it something delicious. The tiniest chili i.e. green or red colored chilly is named as ‘prik kee noo’. These are very spicy and cannot be taken in a single time.
Fish sauces are usually taste salty. This is named as ‘Nam pla’. This ingredient is the second most important one in Thai food. We can get this sauce from shrimp or brewing fish which is mixed with salt and then fermented in a bottle. This sauce is something different that Chinese soya sauce. Sometimes the aroma of this fish sauce is irritating but when it is mixed with some other ingredients it tastes incredible.
You can get the sour taste if you add some lime to the dish. Manao i.e. lime is used widely in Thai dishes. It inhibits the salty taste and also subtle the strong smell of fish sauce. There is a sauce named ‘prik nampla’ where you can get the combination of three. In this sauce chili is added to the fish sauce with some pinch of garlic and lime. This sauce brings extra taste if added to gai yang i.e. grilled chicken and khai jeow i.e. fried egg. You can also have this sauce with plain rice. The taste is awesome. This prik nampla is common in every Thai food recipes.
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