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51 Thai (and Thai-Inspired) Recipes

These flavor-packed recipes will help you make great Thai food at home.
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    Thai-Style Squid and Cucumber Salad

    Tossed with crunchy cucumbers, peanuts, and fresh red chiles, this squid salad makes a refreshing summer dinner spooned over rice or all on its own.

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    Ultimate Green Curry (Gaeng Khiaw Wan Gai)

    We couldn't make a list of Thai recipes without go-tos like this delicious green curry with chicken and eggplant from chef Hong Thaimee. Serve this dish with jasmine rice or roti for dipping. 

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    Red Curry Noodle Bowls with Steak and Cabbage

    Have half an hour? That’s all you need to make these Thai-inspired noodle bowls, which get a blast of flavor from storebought red curry paste, freshly grated ginger, coconut milk, and lime.

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    22-Minute Pad Thai

    We all love pad thai. And if you've never made it at home, you're missing out.

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    Ugly Baby’s Red Curry Paste

    Chef Sirichai Sreparplarn of Brooklyn's Ugly Baby doesn’t believe in using food processors for making curry paste, but we won’t stop you from using one. He also prefers a blend of two parts shorter dried chiles (prik haeng) and one part longer chiles (prik chee fah), but any Thai chile will work.

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    Green Curry Paste

    Storebought green curry paste works in a pinch, but a fresh version is so much more vibrant and flavorful.

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    Red Curry–Marinated Japanese Eggplant

    Japanese eggplants are smaller, sweeter, and faster-cooking than other types. If using globe eggplants, slice them into half-inch rounds.

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    Spicy Larb with Cabbage Cups

    We love how larb, which originally hails from Laos, marries bits of meat with crunchy, juicy textures, roasty flavors, and spice. When you get the balance right, this dish sings.

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    Tomato-Coconut Curry With Cod

    This summery cod preparation is enriched with coconut cream and brightened with fresh basil and lime juice.

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    Thai Beef with Basil

    This stir-fry gets a double dose of basil, both wilted in during cooking and then added fresh just before serving.

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    Grilled Green Bean Salad With Thai Dressing

    This Thai-inspired salad pairs a summery mix of charred green and yellow wax beans with fresh lime, a firm mango, and loads of cilantro. It makes for a perfectly refreshing vegetarian dinner.

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    Lamb Larb

    The deep flavor of ground lamb is wonderful when dressed with a mix of lemongrass, cilantro stems, lime juice, fish sauce, and demerara sugar.

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    Steamed Fish With Lime and Chile

    This minimalist recipe is a beaut. The steam not only gently cooks the fish until just tender but also creates an instant, complex sauce from a handful of common ingredients.

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    Thai Beef Salad

    This salad is particularly good during the warmer months. The thinly sliced meat, the crunch of the cucumbers and red onions, and the heady aroma of mint and cilantro tossed with the chile-spiked salty-sweet dressing seem made for hot days and nights.

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    Green Mango Salad

    Julienned green mangoes are what give this sweet, sour, and spicy salad its signature crunch.

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    Sweet Potato Curry

    This Thai-inspired spicy vegetarian sweet potato dish tastes as good as ever reheated. Not that you're likely to have any leftovers.

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    Pad Thai

    This Pad Thai recipe from Andy Ricker gets a bright tang from tamarind and sweet preserved shredded radish.

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    Chicken Khao Soi

    Making your own deeply flavorful curry paste is the key to this fragrant soup. Top it all off with sliced red onion, bean sprouts, cilantro sprigs, crispy fried onions, and lime wedges for squeezing.

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  • Austin Bush
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    Thai Grilled Chicken Wings

    You'll marinate the wings for this Thai recipe from Kris Yenbamroong in a mix of oyster and soy sauces, sugar, oil, and pepper, but the dipping sauce, made with chile powder, fish sauce, lime juice, sesame seeds, and sugar, is the key to the flavor of the final dish.

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  • Austin Bush
    38/51

    Wok-Fried Rice Noodles with Chicken and Squid

    You can use fresh or dried rice noodles in this wok-fried dish. They're cooked with a mix of chicken, squid, and garlic, flavored with Golden Mountain Seasoning Sauce and stirred with preserved cabbage and sweet radish.

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  • Rinne Allen
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    Yam Kai (Thai Eggs) with Leftover Grains

    The one secret to great yam kai is that you must cook the shallots until they're almost burned. And the more of them you use, the better.

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    Sticky Rice With Mango

    Cook glutinous rice in coconut milk and serve with fresh mango for a dessert with texture and flavor in spades.

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    Long Bean, Cucumber, and Tomato Salad

    Thai salads are full of crisp vegetables and fruits mixed with bright, bold condiments. It's not about just tossing the ingredients together, it's about working them into the dressing.

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    Stir-Fried Brussels Sprouts with Garlic and Chile

    Thai stir-fries like this one are a great way to showcase fresh green vegetables. You can increase the spiciness of your stir-fry by adding more chiles. The key to this dish's success? Controlling the heat on the pan from beginning to end.

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    Curried Beef Stew

    Use a mini-processor to make the curry paste if you'd like, although this fiery stew will take on a deeper flavor if you use a granite mortar and pestle.

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