Thai cooking class menu options for online and courses on Koh Tao

 Thai Veg Spring Rolls

I will show you how to make tasty and easy-to-make spring rolls they are great as a starter or finger food for a party. The recipe can also be modified and use a variety of different fillings.

Nutritional value Fried spring rolls aren’t as unhealthy as you may think as 1 spring roll generally provides 39 kilocalories of energy, but depending on the ingredients of the filling, which are popular with vermicelli, cabbage, minced pork and mushroom. Various fresh vegetables inside such as basil, and cabbage provide vitamins and fibre, but when frying the spring rolls it is important to ensure that the oil is hot enough so that the spring rolls do not absorb too much oil.

Learn How To Make Thai No Name Vegetables

A dish that is usually served as a vegetarian option and this delicacy is very popular in Thailand. The snack is made with little vegetable fritters and it has no specific name just as it sounds.  It is similar in origin to other great popular dishes from other parts of the world like bubble-and-squeak or a pakora.   Hardly found in any eateries outside of Thailand, this vegetarian dish is a delicious treat for many Western tourists who are visiting the country. Normally, the snack is served with some tomatoes, lettuce, and sweet chilli sauce. It can also be served with a curry paste typically the Panang curry paste or spicier red curry paste.  When I teach how to make No Name in my cooking classes, providing the people taking the course don't mind a bit of spice I include the curry past in the process of making the fitters themselves by adding it to the vegetables before they are cooked.

This dish is called No Name apparently because it was made in times of poverty out of whatever scraps were around the kitchen. The dish was never given a name because it was made out of necessity and no one expected this to appear on a menu in a restaurant.   Parawan’s Thai home cooking class suggests some popular ingredients to use, but you can experiment with any scraps you have at hand. They also work as well with minced meat like pork or chicken and there is a more sophisticated version that can be made with prawns. 

What No Name Vegetable Tastes Like

For those who have never tried No Name vegetables before, you might be wondering what this quick vegetarian snack tastes like. Well, it offers that distinctive Thai balance of flavours that perfectly brings four different kinds of tastes (i.e. sweetness, saltiness, a bit of sourness, and spiciness) together. Just like other special Asian delicacies such as chicken tempura or vegetable tempura, its taste is delicately complex but out of this world.

Thai Papaya salad or Som Tam, the dish craved by Thais when overseas

Papaya salad is made with the main component which is grated papaya in strips, put into a mortar. Complete with ingredients such as yard-long beans, garlic, small tomatoes, eggplant, Sida, fresh chillies, and dried chillies, then seasoned with white sugar or palm sugar, add fish sauce, and lemon, to your liking.

These ingredients give papaya salad a unique flavour. Sour, salty, spicy, noisy, pleasing many people. Thai people in the northeast, prefer to eat spicy, salty, spicy papaya salad. Whereas Thai people in the central region like to eat sweet and sour flavours There are also side dishes that are often almost indispensable, such as grilled catfish, grilled chicken, rice noodles and fresh vegetables such as morning glory, long beans, cabbage, Chinese cabbage, and sticky rice.

Learn How To Make Stir Fried Chicken and Cashew Nuts

Chicken fried with cashew nuts is for people who do not like very spicy food.  It’s a popular option for the whole family, it's liked by both adults and children. There are many different recipes for Chicken stir-fried with cashew nuts with differences in the way that the chicken is fried as it can be crispy before stir-frying or you can use fresh chicken to stir it straight away and whether it’s stir-fried with or without chilli paste. Searching the internet and asking food experts it is not clear where the original chicken fried cashews came from and who initiated it. Some say that it is inherited and modified from Chinese food, while others say that it's our own Thai food.

Cashew nuts are nutritious snacks. Cashews Seeds are a great source of protein and fats that are good for health, which many believe may help reduce the risk of certain chronic diseases such as obesity, cardiovascular disease, etc. The part that is consumed is the innermost meat of the seeds, the nut. People commonly eat it as a snack or as an ingredient in various foods.

Parawan’s Thai Home Cooking Class will show you how to easily make step-by-step Stir-Fried Chicken and Cashew nuts at home.