Easy Thai Cookbook: The Step-By-Step Guide to Deliciously Easy Thai Food at Home

by Sallie Morris

This wonderful collection guides you through every step, demonstrating all the basics needed to master this delicious cuisine. There are more than 70 recipes for salads, curries, stir-fries, fried, steamed, and grilled foods, and such luscious meals as Tom Yam soup, fish cakes, steamed mussels, green chicken curry, and stir-fry duck are all made tantalizingly easy. Also provided is a cross-referenced collection of 12 meal plans, from simple dinners for you and your family to exotic feasts for friends and guests. With stunning photography throughout and a CD of evocative music to cook and eat to, this is the one-stop Thai cookbook for beginners.

Genres: Cookbooks, Nonfiction, Cooking

244 pages, Paperback

First published April 29, 2010

About the author

Sallie Morris has a diploma from the Edinburgh College of Domestic Science. The author of several cookery books, she worked on the cookery pages of several well known women's magazines, before moving to East Africa & then Malaysia with her family

abridged from Ms Morris's bio in South-East Asia Cookery

Reviews

[Leyla Johnson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really wanted to have a read of this book, and it certainly did not disappoint, in fact It was everything I hoped for any more. There is a very useful section on Thai ingredients, pastes and dipping sauces - there is also a bit about rice. After this there are pages and pages of easy to follow recipes, each recipe is placed on one page and each has a fabulous photograph of the finished dish on the other page. At the end there are some menus put together for different occasions which are a great idea.
This is a very easy, useful book which can be used in the kitchen everyday to make fragrant and nourishing meals

[Literary Redhead · Rating 4 out of 5]

EASY THAI COOKBOOK by Southeast Asian cooking expert Sallie Morris offers 70 simple delicious recipes for making this ever popular cuisine. The book with very pretty photos divides into three sections. BASICS covers ingredients; equipment; cooking methods; and stocks, sauces and pastes. RECIPES offers tasty dishes from snacks to entrees to desserts. MENUS pulls it all together so you’re prepared to make a simple lunch or dinner, or even throw a drinks or dinner party. My tummy was rumbling over descriptions for Tom Yam soup, fish cakes, steamed mussels, green chicken curry, and stir-fry duck. If you adore Thai food as I do, you’ll enjoy EASY THAI COOKBOOK. 4/5

Thanks to Nourish and NetGalley for the review copy. Opinions are fully mine.

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[Danielle · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read this review and more on my blog.

I received a free copy of Easy Thai Cookbook from the publisher in exchange for my honest opinion.


Do you want to give Thai cooking a try, or do you love a certain Thai dish that you want to try to make at home? Easy Thai Cookbook gives you a great entry point into Thai cuisine.

The Easy Thai Cookbook starts off with what ingredients you will come across in Thai cooking, how you prepare, use and store these. Next it goes into cooking equipment. Thai uses the Barbecue quite frequently, so it gives you alternates if you do not have access to one. After the equipment comes the cooking methods. Again very handy if you are unfamiliar with Thai cooking.

The Easy Thai Cookbook also gives you recipes on how to make different commonly used stocks and pastes. Included are Vegetable stock, Red Curry Paste and Mussaman Curry paste to name but a few. They also include garnishes, like how to make Banana cups and Spring Onion Curls. Also an assortment of dipping sauces are includes, which many can be used outside of Thai cooking.

When we get to the recipes section, we are started off with the basics. Plain boiled rice, Thai Fried Rice, and Soft Boiled Egg Noodles to name a few. This is quite a handy section of this cookbook as all of these basic recipes are used extensively throughout Thai cooking, so making sure that you have these down to a tee is very handy.

Snacks and Appetizers include Prawn Toasts (Kanom Pang Nah-Goong), Steamed Dumplings (Kanom Jeeb), Thai Spring Rolls (Pow-Pia Tawd), and Thai Fish Cakes (Tawd Mun Pla).

Soups include Beef Soup with Noodles (Guay Tiew Nam-Neau), Clear Soup with Wontons (Giew Nam), Hot and Sour Prawn Soup (Tom Yum Goong), and Pumpkin and Coconut Cream Soup (Gaeng Liang Fak Tong).

Salads and Vegetables includes Thai Beef Salad (Yum Neau), Squid Salad (Yum Pla Meuk), Baby Corn and Sugar Snaps with Ginger and Garlic (Pad Yod Kao Pod Kab Khing) and Market Salad (Som Tam)

Curries include Thai Mussaman Curry (Gaeng Mussamsan), Jungle Curry (Gaeng Pah), Prawn and Pineapple Curry (Gaeng Khau Goong) and Mixed Vegetable Curry (Gaeng Kari Pak).

Stir-Fries includes Stir-Fry Chicken with Basil Leaves (Gai Pad Bai Kaprow) and Stir-Fry Squid with Garlic (Pla Meuk Kratiem Prikthai).

Fried Dishes include Fried Whole Fish with Tamarind Sauce (Pla Jien) and Deep-Fried Noodles with Sweet and Sour Sauce (Mee Krob)

Steams, Grills, Bakes and Barbecues includes Steamed Mussels with Lemon Grass and Basil (Hoy Malangpoo Neung), Steamed Stuffed Crab (Poo-Jar), Beef with Coconut (Pra Raam Long Song) and Thai-Style Casserole of Duck (Pad Tun).

Desserts includes Coconut Ice Cream (Alsa Khrim Ka-Thi), Glutinous Rice with Mango Slices (Khao Niew Mamoung), Pineapple Butterflies (Sub Pa Ros) and Pumpkin Filled with Coconut Custard (Sangkaya Phak Thong).

After all of these recipes, they even give you some menus so you can see which dishes go with which, how to plan and cook a Thai meal.

[roxi Net · Rating 4 out of 5]

First of all, this is my first review during the COVID-19 and despite the horrible world situation, there are small, beautiful things to help us get through - and for me, that's the opportunity to read through my backlog of galleys to review.

Second, Easy Thai Cookbook made me smile as I read through to find recipes with the ingredients in my pantry-- turns out, I did have the 'essential three C's of oriental cookery: coconut, chili, and coriander/cilantro'. I was incredibly excited since having a Caribbean background, I normally have coconut and cilantro on hand, and loving spice - it's always there.

While it's a little difficult to review cookbook layouts via my Kindle, this one was straightforward (despite counting 25 ingredients to make a green curry paste) with its instruction and clean pictures and not as challenging as I thought cooking Thai food would be. Some of the ingredients are definitely not at your local grocery store but I'd be excited to go on the hunt for them (bean curd, kapi, magrut). Unfortunately, while I have the three C's, I'm unable to do justice to most of these recipes since I would have to do without quite a few. I look forward to a time when I can go out to the grocery store as normal and find these ingredients.
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[Samantha · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a great book for starting to cook Thai cuisine. It explains all the basic ingredients and equipment required and even provides a meal planner.

There are over 70 recipes of Snacks & appetizers, Soups, Salads & vegetables, Curries, Stir-frys, Fried dishes, Steams, grills, bakes & barbecues and Desserts.

The recipes are very easy to follow and I like the inclusion of "Stir, Heat, Add" at the beginning of each step. The measurements are in both imperial and metric. There is lots of colour photography throughout the book. Ingredients are likely to be found in most supermarkets if no oriental store is close to you.

There are 12 menu plans which include romantic dinner, lunch or dinner meals with families either mid-week or weekends plus dinner party menu and a lunch to take with you. Included with these menu plans are timings of when to start preparing, cooking and serving which is something I've not come across before in a cookery book. The Thai name of the dish is also included with each recipe.

I received this book from netgalley in return for a honest review.

[Joyce · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice straight forward recipes. Easy to follow and fairly easy to make. The index is a different type that I have in most of my books so I found it easier to just page through to find it. Since it is a digital file I could just search for what I was looking for.

This is not a totally new book either. It was originally published in 2007. But I still enjoyed looking through it for ideas to make my next dinner.

[Cassandra · Rating 5 out of 5]

Can you say Yummmm?! This book is filled with easy to follow instructions and mouth watering photos that almost have you swearing you can smell the aromas coming through the pages. These recipes look delicious, and I can't wait to give them a try. I need a physical copy of this book in my kitchen!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for giving me a free digital copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

[Andhika Wicaksana · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Kate · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was really excited to try this cookbook, however, I found it to be a little disappointing.

First of all, the errors and random capitalizations throughout was really distracting from the book. Many ingredients are given in grams and ounces which makes it a little less user friendly if you use ounces since it is not quite as easy to read or glance back at when preparing a meal.

The recipes also don't have pictures or nutritional facts, so if that is something you like cookbooks to have, this does not. Rather, it is like reading recipes typed out in a word document with a description and instructions and ingredients.

It wasn't for me, but if you don't care about those things, the recipes look like they could be good, but I couldn't get past a few since the incorrect sentence structure drove me crazy...

[Patrica Liebe · Rating 3 out of 5]

I received a copy of this book via NetGalley and the publishers for an honest review.
'Easy Thai Cookbook' by Sallie Morris is a beginners cookbook filled with some wonderful and delicious recipes. I have some family members who absolutely love Thai Food and I am glad to say that the recipes I trailed were both easy to make and they showed me how easy it was to make delicious Thai dishes to serve. The Chicken Soup with Coconut, Thai Beef Salad, Mixed Stir Fry Vegetables with Fried Bananas for Dessert was judged to be a triumph as all my guests just loved the food and even asked for some of the recipes. I gave them the name of the cookbook and said that they must buy the book. The only two things that I think was not included were more illustrations of the finished dishes and the many typos that need to be proof read. I recommend this book. to all who like Thai food and would like to know some very easy recipes to cook.

[Vanessa · Rating 2 out of 5]

I found Easy Thai Cookbook by Sallie Morris recipes easy to follow and easy to make as I am a great fan of Thai cook books, Thai food and especially cooking it. However, I found with this book plain, lacked photo's and illustration etc for the recipes especially if you are new to preparing and cooking these recipes.
There are better illustrated Thai cookbooks on the market now I found this one dated!

[Renee(Reneesramblings) · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love Thai food but hadn't given much thought to cooking it myself. It's a 'treat' meal and a night out since I have a partner with some dietary restrictions. However, I was intrigued as I do enjoy cooking and can often 'tweak' ingredients for healthier options. There is a nice Introduction that provides background information o Thai cuisine as well as a list of items that are most often part of a Thai meal. The second section, The Basics, has an A-Z list of ingredients(actually B-W) that taught me quite a lot. Lime leaves are one example of an ingredient that I had trouble finding and the author stated that if you couldn't get them, you could use grated grapefruit zest(problem solved).
There are many recipes for soups, salads, curries, vegetables, desserts and much more. So far, I have made the Clear Soup with Stuffed Mushrooms, the Thai Beef Salad, and the Green Chicken Curry. All very good and there are quite a few more that I look forward to trying. I also thought the Menus section was a great resource as it suggests recipes that work together whether you are packing lunch, looking to make a simple dinner or planning a party.
Nutritional information and more pictures are the only two things missing(for me).
I received an e Arc of the Easy Thai Cookbook from Nourish through NetGalley.
3.5 stars.

[Kristina Aziz · Rating 5 out of 5]

I grew up with Southwest Asian food. Southeast Asia food oddly enough didn't even spark my interest until recently. This is a lovely cookbook for beginners, and I wasn't at all disappointed with the flavor variances between Thai and Indian food.

[Jo · Rating 5 out of 5]

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A fantastic book! Sallie shares her creative way to prepare delicious, colorful dishes using few ingredients and easy to follow instructions.

[Heather Brown · Rating 4 out of 5]

Easy Thai Cookbook gives lots of great recipes for Thai food you know you can actually make! It starts you off with a guide to ingredients and techniques so you are prepared for everything. Then there are tasty recipes and appetizing photos with easy to follow instructions. I can't wait to taste the recipes I picked out to try!