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Great Thai food is characterized by elegant presentation, extraordinary aroma, well-balanced texture, exquisite flavor, and lingering taste. Home-style Thai cooking techniques embody all of these characteristics. This introductory cookbook is simply written for people who are not familiar with Thai cooking and want to learn how to cook Thai food with home-style Thai cooking techniques, using a Western kitchen and ingredients available in the U.S. and elsewhere.
This cookbook provides easy and simple techniques for the preparation of a meal, and specific ingredient details with pictures and written information. This cookbook will enable the reader to understand the fundamentals of Thai cooking and enhance skills in maintaining the authentic aromas, flavors, textures, and tastes. Each recipe provides the dos and don'ts of Thai cooking as well as describes how the finished dish should taste. Because ingredients, cooking tips, and cooking sequences are essential to great Thai cooking, this book emphasizes how specific ingredients work and what the cooking techniques for each individual dish are. Easy-to-follow directions walk the reader through the steps and sequences for preparation of each dish. The recipes are selected for Americans, Europeans, and others who would like to experience the taste of authentic Thai foods and want to learn an easy way of preparing them.
This cookbook presents the fundamentals of Thai cooking and the best use of ingredients. Many simple techniques are used to reduce the complexity of Thai cooking. The cookbook provides recipes, each accompanied by a beautiful color photograph, in each of the 14 main food categories in Thai cooking. The reader will learn how to create delicious one-plate meals, as well as how to compose a complete menu of home-style Thai dishes. The classic Thai meal is a combination of 6 dishes from different food categories, not including desserts or fruits. The cookbook uses a meal composition chart to guide the reader in the composition of this classic Thai meal, including tips on appropriate taste combinations. In addition to fundamental food-preparation and menu-composition techniques, great home-style Thai cooking is based on an understanding of ingredients and their uses. Accordingly, this book discusses aspects of flavor, the importance of texture, and the appropriate uses of various ingredients.
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Classical & Traditional Home-style Thai Cooking.
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