Thai recipes
Easy Thai Recipes to Cook at Home
Thai cooking is built on balance: salty fish sauce, sour tamarind or lime, sweet palm sugar and the heat of chili, often all in one dish. Shrimp pad thai shows it most clearly. The slow cooker red curry layers curry paste and coconut milk with fresh basil and lime, and mango sticky rice sets sweet coconut against a pinch of salt.
These recipes are written for home kitchens anywhere. Fish sauce, coconut milk, curry paste and rice noodles are sold in most supermarkets, and each recipe gives a buying tip or substitute for harder-to-find ingredients such as tamarind and glutinous rice, along with exact quantities, timings and doneness checks.
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Quick answer
Savour's Thai recipes include shrimp pad thai with tamarind sauce, ready in 40 minutes; slow cooker Thai red chicken curry, which takes 15 minutes to prepare and then 4-5 hours on LOW; and mango sticky rice, a vegan, gluten-free dessert that needs a 4-hour soak but only 45 minutes of prep and cooking.
- Recipes
- 3
- Average total time
- 3 hrs 33 mins
- Quickest
- Shrimp Pad Thai (40 mins)
- Rated Easy
- 2 of 3
- Average calories
- 530 per serving
- Newest
- Slow Cooker Thai Red Chicken Curry
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Frequently Asked Questions
What ingredients do I need to cook Thai food at home?
Keep fish sauce, coconut milk, Thai red curry paste, jasmine rice, flat rice noodles and palm or brown sugar in the pantry, and buy limes, garlic, shallots, chilies and fresh basil as needed. Pad thai also needs tamarind, and mango sticky rice needs glutinous rice.
What can I use instead of fish sauce?
For a vegetarian or vegan dish, use vegan fish sauce, soy sauce or tamari in the same amount, then taste and adjust the salt. Tamari keeps the dish gluten-free; regular soy sauce contains wheat.
Which Thai recipe is easiest for beginners?
The slow cooker Thai red chicken curry takes 15 minutes of prep and then cooks on its own. Shrimp pad thai is the quickest to the table at 40 minutes but is cooked in two fast batches. Mango sticky rice is simple too; just start soaking the rice at least 4 hours ahead.
Are these Thai recipes gluten-free?
Yes. Shrimp pad thai, the slow cooker red chicken curry and mango sticky rice are all written to be gluten-free; glutinous rice contains no gluten despite its name. Some fish sauces and curry pastes include wheat, so check the labels.