Thai

In this soul-satisfying dish, delicate rice noodles are combined with gingery spiced beef.

“The grapefruit brightens everything in this dish.” —Eleanore Park, BA recipe tester

Tangy tamarind is a key ingredient in pad thai but works in lots of other applications

From jade noodles to shrimp doughnuts, 5 Thai dishes that could be as popular as Pad Thai, picked by chef Jet Tila

Basil is wilted like a leafy green in this thai beef stir fry recipe, then added raw at the end for a double dose of its aromatic flavor.

A simple curry paste gives this northern Thai–inspired soup surprising depth of flavor.

This silky, aromatic soup is a complete meal in a bowl.

There's nothing quite as refreshing as this Thai iced tea recipe on a hot summer day.

Loosely based on Tom Kha Gai, Thai chicken soup recipe comes together in under an hour with easy to find ingredients.

This Thai yellow curry recipe is done in no time, plus it's all in one pot for easy cleanup.

Larb is one of our favorite recipes to make for friends and family. Adjust the amount of chiles and Sriracha as needed.

This versatile coconut curry recipe is incredibly easy to make vegetarian (using vegetable stock, omitting the chicken, not using fish sauce, etc.).

Thai salads are full of crisp vegetables and fruits mixed with intense condiments.

This is the definition of minimalist Thai cooking. The steam not only gently cooks the fish until just tender but also creates an instant, complex sauce from a handful of basic ingredients. Scoring the fish's flesh allows more of the flavor to season the fish and facilitates faster steaming. The fish is cooked on a plate that fits inside the steamer, to catch the juices.

Those brown flecks are caramelized bits of coconut cream (swoon)

This technique is as easy as Thai gets (which is pretty easy)

The key to the dish's success is controlling the heat on the pan

The chef uses a mortar and pestle deep enough to pound the aromatics, then mix the salad in it, too

As the chef says, "it ain't made with chicken"

Today's edition of our Thai Cooking Primer includes more masterful wielding of mortar and pestle

Pok Pok chef Andy Ricker shared some of his incredible Thai recipes with us, along with the techniques and tools to make them at home