Thai Food

This Vegan Porridge is a healthy version of a famous rice porridge or “Jok” from Thailand. With only a little bit of grains, a fair amount of legumes, and lots of vegetables, this can be a healthy breakfast, lunch or dinner!

Missing a trip back to Thailand during this pandemic, I crave all kinds of Thai foods. To make me feel at home, I started to cook Thai foods more often.

However, the Thai foods I cook are not exactly the same as Thai foods in Thailand. Why?

First of all, not all the ingredients I need can be found where I am right now. Second of all, I don’t eat animal products anymore, so my Thai food versions are meatless. Third of all, I prefer to substitute some ingredients that are shipped directly from Thailand with ingredients I can find locally.

Even though my version of Thai food is pretty different, I try to maintain the key ingredients and make it taste as similar as I can. The flavors of Thai food are comforting and bring me closer to home—regardless where I am.

With this Vegan Porridge, instead of having just rice as the main ingredient, I add all kinds of vegetables I like.

I make this with sprouted brown rice, white rice and rolled oats.They all work great, but white rice and rolled oats are easier and faster to cook. Brown rice takes longer to cook and make it soft the way “Jok” is. I usually sprout it first to make it more digestible.…

This Thai Sweet Chili Sauce is so tasty. It’s a perfect combination of sweet, salty and sour infused with spiciness. It’s so good even with a bowl of rice!

I grew up eating Thai Sweet Chili Sauce. I think this sauce makes anything taste better, and it’s a staple food that most Thai households have in their pantries.

However, I have to admit that I wasn’t 100% happy when I ate the store bought Thai Sweet Chili Sauce. There are unknown ingredients in it that concern me, so I only ate it sparingly.

Because of the fear of these unknown ingredients, I decided to make my own. Since then, I helplessly become addicted to it, but I don’t feel bad eating it at all.…

This Vegan Red Curry is full of vegetables, and it’s so tasty & healthy without shrimp paste, fish sauce, or meat. It’s wonderful with a bowl of warm rice, quinoa–or plain!

Vegan Red Curry is one of the tastiest comfort foods to resort to. With the mixed flavor of vegetables and other simple ingredients, this dish can easily become a favorite.

If reducing waste from cooking is one of your goals, you can make your own sprouted tofu, coconut milk, and even red curry paste like I do too.

For the protein, besides tofu, you can use tempeh, or garbanzo beans as well.

As for vegetables, this Vegan Red Curry recipe is so flexible, you can choose your own favorite vegetables and put them in there, adjust the taste to your own liking, and you are all set for a healthy & tasty meal!

Ready to make this healthy meal?…

If you are looking for a healthy dessert to cool you off during these hot days, try this Red Ruby Dessert or Tubtim Krob. It’s so refreshing and tasty. With Jicama being the main ingredient, you’ll also get prebiotic (yes that’s “pre”-biotic ) to keep your gut happy while eating dessert!

Red Ruby Dessert or Tubtim Krob is a famous Thai dessert, and it’s a favorite for many people, especially during hot summer days. “Tubtim” in Thai has two meanings. One is for Red Ruby, a beautiful gemstone. The other one can be pomegranate, a very tasty and healthy fruit. “Krob” means crunchy. The beautiful red color of these pomegranate kernels or red rubies coated with clear tapioca flour is too hard for any child, or even grown up to resist. …

Talking about Thai dessert, I’m positive you must have tried this amazing Mango Sticky Rice at least once- if not more. It’s simple, yet satisfying without complication. Thinking about it might already make your mouth water. Let’s get some mangoes, sticky rice, coconut milk, and I’ll show you how!

We don’t use a lot of dairy products in Thai cooking. So, desserts that are filled with dairy and heavy refined sugar are not what I grew up eating. I like desserts, but my kind of desserts are mostly non-dairy, and light in sugar. Best of all, they are SUPER easy to make without too much kitchen equipments!

Mango Sticky Rice is one of those desserts that can instantly satisfy a sweets craving. The combination of sweet, creamy coconut milk, the texture of sticky rice, and juicy mangoes are incredibly delicious. You’ll be amazed how these simple ingredients can make this dessert flavor sublime.

I know you can’t wait, so let’s jump into it.…

Imagine you could eat your favorite vegan pad thai whenever you want. With Vegan Pad Thai Sauce on hand, it’s easy. This sauce will actually take you to the next level in making pad thai. Wondering how to make the sauce? Let me show it to you!

This Vegan Pad Thai Sauce is a well-balanced between 3 main flavors; sweet, salty and sour. For the regular non-vegan version, fish sauce is the main ingredient used. However, I have been substituting soy sauce for it, and that works great. In fact, it’s even better as its taste is not as strong as fish sauce. …

If you use coconut milk often and are tired of dealing with its containers, or not comfortable with the BPA in the container linings, why don’t make your own? It’s also tastier & healthier. Homemade Coconut Milk is SO easy to make!

I grew up eating Homemade Coconut Milk because most Thai dishes have coconut milk as part of the main ingredients. From curry dishes such as green curry, to dessert–you name it.

We usually made a fresh batch of it right before we used it in our cooking, and there was no canned coconut milk to compare it with. …

Wait! before going out to buy another bottle of hot sauce, try making this Sriracha Hot Sauce in your own kitchen. With only a few ingredients, It will open a whole new world of eating hot sauce!.

If you are a fan of hot sauce, I’m positive you know Sriracha Hot Sauce. Being Thai, I’ve known it my whole life. It became a very famous hot sauce as I see it in almost every country I have been to.

Even though it’s so easy to get one bottle from almost every store now, believe it or not, I never bought it–ever. While I was still living in Thailand, I never felt right buying anything in plastic bottles, not to mention something acidic that can leach the plastic into it–like hot sauce.…

Pad Thai is the most commonly ordered Thai dish by people I know. From young picky eaters who don’t like to try anything new to grown up eaters who like to try everything new, they all appreciate a good Pad Thai.

Pad Thai is so famous, and very easy to find. If there is a Thai restaurant in your areas, you are in luck for trying it. However, because fish sauce is one of the main ingredients, it’s not easy to find vegan Pad Thai for plant-based eaters like us….

If you think making your own Thai Red Curry Paste is beyond your capabilities, think again and try this recipe with my method. With simple ingredients, I’ll show you how to do it easily!

Making our own Thai Red Curry Paste was part of my growing up in Thailand. We usually made it fresh right before we cooked the main course, and only made enough for one-time use.

In my childhood, we were required to help in the kitchen to prepare meals almost every day. To make curry pastes, my mom told us the amount of ingredients without measuring them. Everyone got a task for the preparation, and the most responsible sister at that time got to pound them into a mixture….

Vegan Fried Rice is an all-time Thai classic guaranteed to satisfy everyone–even picky eating kids who don’t like trying anything new.

I don’t usually make this dish as I feel like it’s too typical. Recently, I had a very frustrating experience eating fried rice from a Chinese restaurant on a trip, and want to prove that Thai Vegetarian Fried Rice, packed with yummy vegetables, is really easy to make.

With a perfect combination of simple ingredients, I also go the extra mile, fermenting the rice to make it even healthier, along with lots of vegetables.

Indeed, I can confirm after making it again that it’s both easy and satisfying….

Lemon & Lime Soup is the best way to eat lemon and lime rinds that are loaded with health benefits, that most of us are not aware of. It’s a very fresh, tangy, aromatic, and most of all healthy soup!

In Thailand, the land known for its delicious and healthy foods, I grew up eating a soup dish called chicken & pickled lime soup, or in Thai “Gai Toon Manao Dong.” That was a long time ago when I was still a meat eater.

In the soup, they use whole, pickled limes, chicken, Thai winter squash, and shiitake mushrooms along with other spices. Then, they slow cook it ‘til everything is soft, and well-blended with incredibly aromatic smells. Even though the taste is quite bitter, it’s very delicious in a unique way.

It’s known to be one of the best healing soups when you are sick. Most Thai people believe that bitter food is good for you, and we have a saying to makes us feel good when eating something bitter: “bitter is medicinal.”…

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