The perennial bestseller is back with a new look.

The first two editions of Simply Thai Cooking have sold over 100,000 copies, and it’s not hard to see why. Thai cooking is exhilarating, it’s exotic — and it’s easier to make than ever before. The exciting, flavorful ingredients can be found everywhere, and nothing else so magically combines the savory with the sweet, the tart with the spicy.

These easy-to-follow recipes for a wide range of Thai standards are virtually foolproof and taste deliciously authentic. In addition to a new cover treatment, this new edition features 16 new color photographs of this wonderfully enticing cuisine.

All the favorites are back:

Thai cold spring rolls
Chicken satay
Lemongrass-shrimp soup
Thai hot and sour soup
Green papaya salad
Glass noodle salad
Pad thai
Coconut noodles with chicken and shrimp
Thai beef curry
Marinated grilled beef
Roast duck in red curry
Pork with red chili sauce
Shrimp in spicy coconut milk.

Most of these amazing recipes can be prepared in less than 30 minutes, and helpful hints on the essentials of Thai cuisine will appeal to beginner and experienced home cooks alike.

I love Thai food and thanks to this easy-to-follow cookbook, I am now able to make it at home. The directions are clear and the ingredient list is for the most part, manageable. The results are authentic and delicious Thai food, bursting with Asian flavours.

Pad Kai Mamuang Sood

Young Mango Chicken

This sweet-tart-spicy concoction is another of Wandee’s recent novelties and it satisfies as seductively as a walk on a starlit beach during the tropical night. The preferred mango is “young,” meaning it hasn’t quite ripened yet and has a hard enough texture to be cleanly sliced. This is no problem for us, since all our mangoes are imported and usually aren’t quite ripe when they hit the store shelves. Best news of all is that the mango is simply peeled and sliced into medium strips!

Ingredients

10 oz skinless, boneless chicken breast 300 g
1 large, not-quite-ripe, mango 1
4 tbsp vegetable oil 50 mL
1 tsp chopped garlic 5 mL
4 tbsp water 50 mL
2 tbsp soya sauce 25 mL
1 tsp sugar 5 mL
2 tbsp chili paste 25 mL
2 tbsp lime juice 25 mL
1 ⁄2 medium red pepper, 1⁄2
cut into 1⁄4-inch/5-mm strips
2 oz roasted unsalted cashews 60 g
Fresh coriander leaves
21 ⁄2 cups freshly steamed rice 625 mL

Instructions

Slice the chicken into strips that are 1⁄4 inch/5 mm thick,
2 inch/5 cm long and about 1 inch/2.5 cm wide. If you find
it difficult to cut thinly through fresh meat, leave it in the freezer for 15-20 minutes to harden slightly, and then slice. Reserve.
2. Peel mango and slice into 1⁄4-inch/5-mm thick, long strips. Reserve.
3. Heat oil in a wok (or large frying pan) on high heat, until it is just about to smoke. Add garlic and stir-fry for 30 seconds. Add reserved chicken and water and stir-fry for 2 minutes, until the chicken is springy. Add soya and sugar and stir-fry for 1 minute. Add chili paste (page 15) and lime juice and stir-fry for 1 minute. Add reserved mango and red pepper and stir-fry for 1 minute. Add cashews and stir-fry for a final minute.
4. Transfer to a serving dish and top with coriander leaves.
Serve immediately, accompanied by steamed rice.

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

Serving Size:

1 grams
Amount Per Serving: Unsaturated Fat: 0g

Elizabeth Lampman

Elizabeth Lampman is a coffee-fuelled Mom of 2 girls and lives in Hamilton, Ontario. She enjoys travelling, developing easy recipes, crafting, taking on diy projects, travelling and saving money!

Jeanne

Friday 4th of March 2022

On page 161 of Simply Thai second edition there is an ingredient call Mee Khing. What is it? I've tried googling it with no luck and it's not listed in the front of the book.

I just looked, it references the recipe on page 164 and says it is protein tofu. Looking over the ingredients it makes sense that it is tofu, but that is certainly confusing.