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Most homemade dishes that tastes really great is made from using the freshest ingredients, and great Thai cuisine is no exception. Most Thailanders still doesn’t own a fridge up to this day. They are still used to buying fresh produce from the market on a daily basis.

Top 10 tips for healthy Thai cooking

In the West, not everyone has an Asian shop on their doorstep but simply making the journey to your nearest supplier twice a year will keep you in fresh Thai flavours. Be sure to ask what day their fresh ingredients arrive from Thailand (it’s the same day every week), take your bounty home, give the ingredients a good rinse, let them air-dry for a bit, and freeze them the same day in an… Read more at BBC Good Food

If you think Thai cuisine is just all about fried fish cakes, pad thais and curries, think again. The foundation of Thai cuisine are incredibly healthy, with nourishing and healing herbs and spices. Also, uses vitamin-rich fruits and vegetables. This is a guide to healthy Thai cuisine ingredients that will definitely help you boost your immune system.

Guide to Healthy Thai Ingredients

Fiery ginger and its fragrant cousin galangal are packed with medicinal benefits that are ideal for winter. Gingerol, the active ingredient in fresh ginger, can help fight infections, particularly respiratory infections (goodbye winter colds!). Plus it’s great for treating nausea and is a powerful antioxidant… Read more at Asian Inspirations

TAMARIND: Everything You Need to Know – Hot Thai Kitchen!

Tamarind, known in Thai as “makaam”, is one of the most important ingredients in Thai cuisine. It is a staple in every Thai kitchen, and it plays a key role in popular dishes, such as pad thai! Many people cook with tamarind, but perhaps few know what the fruit actually looks like or… Watch here

Thai cuisine is well-known as one of the world’s delicious food, but did you know that authentic Thai food can also be great for your health? Thai cuisine has a lot of spices and superfood ingredients that work together to give your immune system the boost that it needs to fight inflammation and promote fast metabolism for a healthy body.

Ingredients that Make Thai Food an Anti-Inflammatory Knockout

In fact, one Thai soup called Tom Yam Goong has even been studied for its unique high antioxidant content and potential cancer-fighting abilities. Here are 7 of the healthiest, most beneficial ingredients found in Thai food, and how to make sure they’re included in your dishes… Read more at The Alternative Daily

Inflammation is part of our body’s immune response that promotes our body to heal itself. It’s what happens when you get bruised or wounded and the affected area turns red and gets a bit swollen. That’s our immune system at work defending our bodies off any bacteria or infection.

Foods to beat inflammation

While experts have always thought anything with an “itis” at the end involved ongoing inflammation – such as arthritis or appendicitis, recent research shows that a much larger number of diseases, including heart disease, certain cancers, and possibly Alzheimer’s disease may also be triggered in part by chronic inflammation. Do your body a favor by including the following anti-inflammatory foods in your diet… Read more at FoxNews.com

15 Anti Inflammatory Foods

Using these essential Thai spices and ingredients can lead you to making countless Thai cuisine variations through different additives and flavoring agents. You can also learn some of the basic components used in Thai cooking and each of which leads to a lot of different Thai dishes.

Thai Kitchen Essentials

But you don’t need to eat out to get a taste of Thailand. After a recent cultural and culinary tour of his home country to hone in on the flavors he’s serving, Syhabout helped put together a guide to mapping out everything you need to cook great Thai food at home… Read more at Tasting Table

Getting the basic flavors of your favorite Thai dishes just right, especially when you are new to Thai cooking, can be tricky. The complexity of Thai cuisine can be quite intimidating. While it is normal to go after Thai recipes that are labeled “quick” and “easy,” but that doesn’t take long to find out that what’s quick doesn’t always mean easy.

Cooking Thai: 5 basic ingredients that can be used in hundreds of dishes

Here are five ingredients found in countless Thai meals that deliver a lot of bang for your buck. They can help ease you into Thai cooking, and will prepare you for a more advanced stage of your culinary journey where your palate becomes more accustomed to how Thai food tastes and your skill is solid enough to help you further refine your creations… Read more at CNN Travel

Thai Food: A Beginner’s Guide