Thai Cuisine

Fragrant lemongrass, creamy coconut milk, fiery Thai red chillies and zesty makrut lime leaves are ingredients familiar to Thai cuisine. Highstreet Thai restaurants in the UK include the chains Busaba & Rosa’s Thai as well as a host of successful independently family-owned eateries who serve up steaming portions of Pad Thai, Massaman Curry and Tom Yum soup and my personal favourite – Som Tam: a salad of green papaya, dried shrimp and green beans drenched in a hot and tangy dressing, topped with roasted peanuts. Many family-owned British pubs around Essex serve Thai food which does go down well after a few pints.

Thai ingredients

We have compiled a list of Thai inspired ingredients, so whether you are thinking of heading to the kitchen or need a little help to innovate for product development, we are sure that there is something on this list to get the perfect result.

·       Birds eye chillies

·       Black cardamom

·       Cilantro root

·       Coconut milk and cream

·       Coriander seeds

·       Cumin seeds

·       Dark soya sauce

·       Dried shrimp

·       Fennel seeds

·       Fermented shrimp paste

·       Fish sauce

·       Galangal

·       Garlic

·       Ginger

·       Glutinuous or sticky rice

·       Green peppercorns

·       Holy basil

·       Lemongrass

·       Light soya sauce

·       Lime

·       Long black pepper

·       Makrut lime leaves

·       Palm sugar

·       Rice flour

·       Rice flour

·       Rice noodle

·       Roasted chilli paste

·       Roasted peanuts

·       Seasoning sauce

·       Sesame oil

·       Sriracha sauce

·       Star aniseed

·       Sweet soya sauce

·       Tamarind

·       Tapioca starch

·       Thai chillies

·       Thai Green curry paste

·       Thai parsley

·       Thai red curry paste

·       Thai soya sauce

·       Thai stir- fry seasoning sauce

·       Thai sweet basil

·       White peppercorns