The Best Thai Cookbooks. Bring Bangkok home with you.
Thailand is so much more than traffic light coloured curry. Some ingredients can be tough to come by but no where near the number of places like China. Personally, we love taking ideas from Thai cuisine and using them to change up our favourite dishes. Dauphinois potatoes with Thai aromatics or risotto made with green curry paste as a base are superb ways to mix up your home cooking with minimal effort. The best thai cookbooks will help you bring the heat and bold flavours of the backpacker paradise/general paradise of Thailand into your kitchen.
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Hot Thai Kitchen: Demystifying Thai Cuisine
In our list of the best Thai cookbooks, we should probably start with the best one. This is a clear winner for us, from the success of her YouTube channel of the same name Chongchitnant has created an excellent book of easy to follow recipes combining her Thai heritage with Cordon Bleu skills. The best thing about this book are the QR codes which link to video tutorials on dishes and cooking techniques. It’s like a cookbook and cooking class in one!
Thai Food
This is probably the most complete book on Thai food in the list. With over a decade of research behind it, David Thompson’s book explores every facet of Thai cuisine. The recipes are lengthy and very involved but come with excellent insights into the ingredients and techniques of Thai cuisine. If you’re a confident cook then this could be the only Thai book you need.