Healthy ingredients are a key part of Thai cooking.
| Kaffir Lime Leafes | can be found in many Thai dishes like curries or soups. |
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| Lemon Grass | in many soups or salads or curries. |
| Galangal | is mostly in soups. looks like ginger but taste like lemon. very hard / not good to eat. |
| Tumeric | often in soups or curries. deep yellow root. intensive taste. good to marinate fresh fish |
| Lime | you can use lime in nearly every dish. like soups or salads or even noodle dishes. |
| Ginger | in many Thai dishes like curry, salads or fried vegetable with pork/chicken etc. |
| Sweet Thai Basil | sweet Thai basil is a lot in Thai dishes and curries or just use it fresh in many salads or soups. a must in the green curry! |
| Holy Basil | used in many fried meat dishes like minced pork with holy basil |
| Coriander | you can find coriander in many Thai dishes or as decoration an salads. very strong taste |
| Thai Eggplants | mostly used in green Thai curry, or in some fried vegetables dishes. |
| Tamarind | use in many dishes but as tamarind juice, for pad thai, salads, soups, fried fish ctc. |
| Long Beans | use in nearly every are, salads, soups, curries fried dishes with meat or fish |
| Chili | use in every Thai dishes, but be-careful with it. very spicy! if you can not eat very spicy you use sweet chilies…. like pepperoni in Europe. |