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Real Vegetarian Thai (Paperback)

by Nancie Mcdermott (Author)

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Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Chronicle Books (April 1 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0811811514
ISBN-13: 978-0811811514
Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm
Shipping Weight: 386 g

Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)

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With an emphasis on the classic techniques, ingredients, and flavours of Thai cuisine, this groundbreaki ng cookbook provides 100 delicious recipes for everyday meal s and special occasions. '

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5.0 out of 5 stars Delicious recipes, well laid-out book, Mar 8 2004

By	Klytemnestra (UK) - See all my reviews

Vegetarians have long bewailed the difficulty of making Thai food: almost every ready-made Thai curry paste available contains shrimp or worse. Now it is possible to concoct your own! McDermott has created an Eastern cookbook with a Western eye, taking the mystery out of this delicious cuisine. Recipes are categorised along familiar lines, exotic ingredients are explained in a glossary and sources listed, unusual techniques (from opening a coconut to roasting chillis) are fully explained. This cookbook is very helpful indeed: there's even a bibliography and a list of menu suggestions, you can alter the amount of heat in a dish to taste (I'm a wimp about chillis and am doing fine), and she is not too snobbish to suggest replacements, such as ginger if galanga is unavailable. The lay-out is clear and easy to follow, and there are several interesting anecdotes about McDermott's travels in Thailand and the traditional Thai way of life.

The recipes are imaginative, healthy, straightforward to make, and they work beautifully. Many of them are vegan, and adaptations are usually suggested for those which are not. A "Basic Recipes" section gives recipes for essentials such as the different curry pastes, roasted chilli paste, vegetable stock, and "mushroom mince" (which she has invented to replace minced meat in traditional recipes).

Some examples of recipes included are:

Crispy spring rolls with sweet and hot garlic sauce
Green papaya salad
Jasmine rice soup with mushrooms, green onions and crispy garlic
Red curry with eggplant and sweet peppers
Butternut squash in fresh green curry
Firecracker broccoli
Coconut ice cream
Thai iced tea

To my surprise, Thai cookery turned out not just to be possible for vegetarians and vegans (an astonishing number of recipes are here, and meat-eaters will certainly not feel deprived), but the ingredients are easy to find, the recipes easy to make, and the results are dazzling.

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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Most Usefull Cookbooks in My Library, Nov 14 2002

By	Kevin Spooner (Atlanta, GA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book has so many great recepies for just about any palate. Sometimes the recepies can look a little daunting and complicated, but it assumes you're using all fresh ingredients, which you don't always have to. After all, cumin powder is in my opinion just as good as fresh cumin seeds. Or more available anyway. Basically, once you take the time to create a few of the "staple" ingredients in this book (red and green curry paste are essential), you can make just about anything in here quickly and cheaply. And it's GOOD! I'm never going to forget the look on my friends' faces when I came out with an eggplant curry that I'd made from this book. Everyone was amazed. So if you want to do something different, and you're a bit creative, this book is for you.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Worth it for the Pad Thai recipe, Sep 19 2002

By	S. Bergstrom (Lexington, MA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a great cookbook -- I love eating Thai food in restaurants, but it's hard to feel comfortable as a vegetarian, since I know there's often still fish sauce in foods marked 'vegetarian'. Everything I've tried from this cookbook tastes wonderful and authentic. As others have said, it's not for quick meals, especially since many recipes require home-made curry paste.

In response to the reviewer who wondered if this cookbook was on the short side because of its vegetarianism -- removing fish paste/fish sauce from Thai food is non-trivial, since it's in almost everything. In some dishes, it mainly adds salt, and soy sauce can (and is) a usual substitute. Others, I'd imagine, just don't taste right without it. That said, I'd love it if this cookbook were longer, since what it includes is wonderful.

If you're not vegetarian, the same author has a non-veggie thai cookbook as well. (According to the specs, it's a few pages shorter, but I haven't looked at it.)

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5.0 out of 5 stars real thai indeed!
This is a GREAT cookbook. I've just recently turned vegetarian and was worried that in doing so I wouldn't be able to enjoy thai food anymore but his cookbook makes it easy! Read more

Published on Aug 26 2001 by merrymousies

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Thai cookbook
I own several Thai cookbooks, but this one is my favorite hands down. Like any Thai cookbook, the recipes require some advance preparation to make the sauces and curry... Read more

Published on Aug 6 2001 by David Findlay

5.0 out of 5 stars Every recipe so far is great
As a vegetarian who adores Thai food, this recipe book was a fantastic find. All the recipes I've tried have come out very tasty, and it was easy to find the ingredients at the... Read more

Published on Aug 24 2000

4.0 out of 5 stars Yum!
I spent about a year and a half in Thailand and am in love with the food of that country. I really enjoy this cookbook -- it gives vegetarian versions of a lot of my old favorite... Read more

Published on Aug 18 1999