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Authentic Thai food is known to be really fresh and healthy. Using natural and fresh ingredients with lots of beautiful herbs, spices and vegetables. Thai dishes simply tastes amazing!

Healthy Thai Food: 21 Delicious Dishes that are Actually Good For You!

Is Thai food in Thailand healthy? That’s quite a complicated question, mainly because there are so many different Thai dishes available in Thailand, ranging from processed, greasy, and sweet, all the way to fresh, spice filled, and vegetables galore… Read more at EatingThaiFood.com

Peanuts, fresh vegetables, Pad Thai, noodles, curries… whatever mood you’re on, most Thai restaurants have it. If you’re craving for some good and healthy comfort food, maybe try some amazing Thai food.

No such thing as too much Thai food

Sweet, salty, sour and spicy. Thai food has it all. Although Thai cuisine centers around these four main flavors, it offers an endless range of dishes. With curries, salads, noodle plates and rice, Thai food can be go from sweet to brutally spicy. This is especially true for local Thai establishments… Read more at The California Aggie

Thai Street Food – Thai Fish Markets – Thai Street Food

Bangkok is one of the world’s best places to eat Thai food and street food. Also, there are many restaurants as well as street vendors cooking and selling Thai food that it can be difficult to find the really good ones. What we are trying to find are the places that serve authentic and delicious food, where the Thais actually love to eat… Watch it here

Thai cuisine can be infinitely delightful and wonderful, with its different kinds of curries and noodles. But the best of Thai cuisine it is not always the vegetarian-friendly dishes, Thai cusine also has many delicious dishes that includes seafood, beeef or chicken.

Vegetarian Thai Recipes: Pad Thai, Curries And More

Sure, simply removing the chicken from Pad Thai could still lead to an enjoyable meal of nutty aromas, but there are more inventive ways for vegetarians and vegans to partake in Thai cuisine. The vegetarian Thai recipes we’ve discovered include vegetarian staples such as quinoa, tofu and chickpeas, but they also venture into the… Read more at Huffingtonpost.com

Thai cusine has some of the world’s most delicious vegan dishes that you can not find anywhere else. Check out the top eight vegan Thai dishes that you should try!

8 Irresistible Vegetarian Thai Dishes

Meat-ridden sois (streets) and carnivore-friendly menus may have some vegetarians and vegans feeling disheartened while in Thailand. Do not be dismayed, though — Thailand has some of the most delicious vegetarian dishes that you can not find anywhere else. Here, discover the… Read more at TheCultureTrip.com

Thai Curry Paradise: 75+ Dishes You Can Choose – Unbelievable Southern Thailand Food!

Most people, if surrounded by delicious and mouthwatering foods makes them feel like a little child in a candy shop. To anyone that is in a very strict diet or food allergies, the candy shop looks more like a room full of gold. Make one mistake, you’re diet is ruined or worse, you get a very bad allergic reaction.

How to enjoy Thai food and stick to your diet

In general, it is best to stick with food that looks and is as close to its natural state as possible. The more fussed-over the food, the more likely it contains something you can’t or don’t want to eat. So choose plain steamed rice over fried rice, and fresh fruit over fruit-based desserts. The rule of thumb applies in all cases… Read more at CNN Travel

Looking for vegan dishes and vegetarian restaurants in Thailand is quite easy. Since many Thai locals are either Muslim or Hindu, it’s common in these religions to not eat meat of pork or beef. There are even vegetarian festivals in Thailand.

Being a Vegetarian with Thai food

If you are a vegetarian, you are in luck with Thai food. Most Thai dishes consist of rice or noodles with vegetables, meat and sauce on top. Meat is viewed as just one part of a dish and not the main focus of the meal. Much of the flavor of Thai food comes from the sauces and vegetables, so you can frequently substitute Tofu or other protein based ingredients that you do eat for the specified meat… Read more at ThaiTable.com

Most homemade dishes that tastes really great is made from using the freshest ingredients, and great Thai cuisine is no exception. Most Thailanders still doesn’t own a fridge up to this day. They are still used to buying fresh produce from the market on a daily basis.

Top 10 tips for healthy Thai cooking

In the West, not everyone has an Asian shop on their doorstep but simply making the journey to your nearest supplier twice a year will keep you in fresh Thai flavours. Be sure to ask what day their fresh ingredients arrive from Thailand (it’s the same day every week), take your bounty home, give the ingredients a good rinse, let them air-dry for a bit, and freeze them the same day in an… Read more at BBC Good Food

If you think Thai cuisine is just all about fried fish cakes, pad thais and curries, think again. The foundation of Thai cuisine are incredibly healthy, with nourishing and healing herbs and spices. Also, uses vitamin-rich fruits and vegetables. This is a guide to healthy Thai cuisine ingredients that will definitely help you boost your immune system.

Guide to Healthy Thai Ingredients

Fiery ginger and its fragrant cousin galangal are packed with medicinal benefits that are ideal for winter. Gingerol, the active ingredient in fresh ginger, can help fight infections, particularly respiratory infections (goodbye winter colds!). Plus it’s great for treating nausea and is a powerful antioxidant… Read more at Asian Inspirations

TAMARIND: Everything You Need to Know – Hot Thai Kitchen!

Tamarind, known in Thai as “makaam”, is one of the most important ingredients in Thai cuisine. It is a staple in every Thai kitchen, and it plays a key role in popular dishes, such as pad thai! Many people cook with tamarind, but perhaps few know what the fruit actually looks like or… Watch here

Thai cuisine is well-known as one of the world’s delicious food, but did you know that authentic Thai food can also be great for your health? Thai cuisine has a lot of spices and superfood ingredients that work together to give your immune system the boost that it needs to fight inflammation and promote fast metabolism for a healthy body.

Ingredients that Make Thai Food an Anti-Inflammatory Knockout

In fact, one Thai soup called Tom Yam Goong has even been studied for its unique high antioxidant content and potential cancer-fighting abilities. Here are 7 of the healthiest, most beneficial ingredients found in Thai food, and how to make sure they’re included in your dishes… Read more at The Alternative Daily

Inflammation is part of our body’s immune response that promotes our body to heal itself. It’s what happens when you get bruised or wounded and the affected area turns red and gets a bit swollen. That’s our immune system at work defending our bodies off any bacteria or infection.

Foods to beat inflammation

While experts have always thought anything with an “itis” at the end involved ongoing inflammation – such as arthritis or appendicitis, recent research shows that a much larger number of diseases, including heart disease, certain cancers, and possibly Alzheimer’s disease may also be triggered in part by chronic inflammation. Do your body a favor by including the following anti-inflammatory foods in your diet… Read more at FoxNews.com

15 Anti Inflammatory Foods

Most ingredients used in cooking Thai cuisine are actually very good for you.

One of the popular Thai dishes like the Tom Yum Soup, are packed with essential nutrients and has great health benefits according to scientific studies.

A lot of herbs and spices that are used in Thai cooking are packed with immune system boosting properties that can help fight disease.

Health Benefits of Eating Thai Food

Thai Food Can Be Healthy, The Many Benefits Of Eating Thai Food. Skipping on the deep fried spring rolls or prawn crackers that feature heavily on our western Thai restaurant menus, home cooked Thai food can be rather healthy… Read more at 8MilesFromHome.com

Scientific studies prove that some herbs and spices has incredible health benefits. And a lot of them are used in traditional Thai cooking.

Spice Up Your Life With a Taste of Thai

Ancient teachings have long associated certain plants and animals with healing properties. Many are featured in traditional ethnic cuisines, such as the foods of Thailand. Modern studies largely confirm the health benefits of certain herbs, spices, seafood and animal products, a number of which star in sauces and… Read more at Sierra Madre

Eating Road Trip to Adams Organic Farm in Thailand

Most Thai restaurants don’t offer or serve these Thai desserts. It’s because these desserts can take forever to produce. Some of these Thai desserts was originated from the royal palace in Thailand, where servants spent a lot of time preparing delicate and precious sweets for the royal family. Soon enough, these delicious desserts found their way to the streets of Thailand to be enjoyed by the masses.

7 Thai Desserts You Didn’t Know Existed

Thai people love their sweets, and if you rely on the options that your local take-out place offers, you’re missing out. Usually, ending a meal with a plate of seasonal fruit like papaya, watermelon and pomelo is standard in the average Thai diet, but it’s just as easy for one to indulge in the array of intricate and… Read more at Food Republic

There are a lot of delicious snacks and food found on every street in Thailand, it is really easy to catch yourself nibbling on something at any given moment. It is also very hard to keep the weight off because of this exact same reasoning. However, many healthy Thai food that you can eat without any guilt.

The Top 10 Healthy Thai Dishes

While traveling in Thailand, you will notice that everyone wants to know if you have eaten. Before even greeting you with a ‘hello,’ you will be asked, ‘gin kao ruang,’ meaning, ‘have you eaten yet?’ To be fair, there are so many enticing snacks and food vendors found on every soi (street), it is hard not to… Read more at Culture Trip

Thai Dessert: Trying Thai Street Food Desserts and Sweets. Street Food in Thailand Vlog

Thai Street Food is really delicious, It’s a must to try if you’re on holidays in Thailand. Thailand food markets are one of the best places to buy fresh and authentic Thai food, or to buy groceries and fruit while you travel in Thailand. There are so many Thai dishes on offer and the foods here are cheap, and so… Watch here

Using these essential Thai spices and ingredients can lead you to making countless Thai cuisine variations through different additives and flavoring agents. You can also learn some of the basic components used in Thai cooking and each of which leads to a lot of different Thai dishes.

Thai Kitchen Essentials

But you don’t need to eat out to get a taste of Thailand. After a recent cultural and culinary tour of his home country to hone in on the flavors he’s serving, Syhabout helped put together a guide to mapping out everything you need to cook great Thai food at home… Read more at Tasting Table

Getting the basic flavors of your favorite Thai dishes just right, especially when you are new to Thai cooking, can be tricky. The complexity of Thai cuisine can be quite intimidating. While it is normal to go after Thai recipes that are labeled “quick” and “easy,” but that doesn’t take long to find out that what’s quick doesn’t always mean easy.

Cooking Thai: 5 basic ingredients that can be used in hundreds of dishes

Here are five ingredients found in countless Thai meals that deliver a lot of bang for your buck. They can help ease you into Thai cooking, and will prepare you for a more advanced stage of your culinary journey where your palate becomes more accustomed to how Thai food tastes and your skill is solid enough to help you further refine your creations… Read more at CNN Travel

Thai Food: A Beginner’s Guide

It won’t be long before the cold and flu season is upon us again. With the change of seasons often comes the unwelcome effects of the body throwing off toxins or anything causing imbalance. Sneezing, coughing, congestion, runny nose, sore throat, you know the drill.

All of these are the body’s attempt to escort or burn off unwanted substances that could cause more serious imbalances.

Want to know how to knock off the early cold symptoms?

The key is in helping the body return to its alkaline state quickly. When the blood pH of the body is slightly alkaline (somewhere around 7.2 pH is ideal), the body’s energy can be used for healing instead of constantly trying to maintain proper pH.

For example, an alkaline body will not allow most bacteria to grow. Bacteria thrive in acidic conditions, so creating an agreeable environment for them through improper diet and lifestyle is an open invitation to getting sick.

To help your body return to an alkaline state–which will immediately make you feel better as your cold symptoms disappear–use these key ingredients: umeboshi plum, genmai miso, nori seaweed, and caramelized white onion in water, then add green onion.

This simple broth will have you feeling better in no time.

Here are more detailed instructions:

Cold-fighting Miso Soup

1/2 white onion, diced
2 T plus 1 c. filtered water
1 T umeboshi plum
2 T Genmai miso
1 sheet of nori seaweed or 4 T nori flakes
1 green onion, diced

Caramelize your onion by heating 2 tablespoons of water in a saucepan over low heat, adding the diced white onion and cooking it until browned and slightly sticky.

Add the rest of the water and heat until hot, but not boiling. Add umeboshi plum and miso and stir until dissolved into a broth.

Then crumble nori into small pieces or add nori flakes.

Ladle soup into a bowl and add raw green onions as a garnish. Makes one serving.

Note: It’s important not to let this soup boil or cook long on your stovetop because the miso will lose its health benefits.

Your health prescription: Take often to ward off cold symptoms.

Enjoy!

Pearl

p.s. to learn more about these ingredients click any of the links below:

umeboshi plum | genmai miso | nori seaweed

Registered dietitians are huge fans of Thai food takeouts because besides having indulgent choices like Pad Thai and fried rice, most Thai restaurants serve food items packed with lean cuts of meat and lots of vegetables. Even some of the restaurants offer healthier variations on those indulgent choices, too.

8 Registered Dietitian-Approved Thai Takeout Picks

On those nights when you’re fresh out of meal-prepped food, too tired to cook anything, and hungry for something hand-delivered, takeout is often the only conceivable notion. Sure, classic options are known for being high in sodium, fat, calories, and the like, but just because… Read more at SELF

A Thai diet is one of the most effective ways of eating for those of us looking to lose some weight. But also being a bit more mindful when it comes to Thai stir fries. There are five great reasons why eating Thai food is going to help us focus on healthy weight-loss, and that means no counting calories or cutting down other food groups in our diet.

5 Reasons to Eat Thai-Style for Weight Loss

Rice is the staple of Thai cooking. Even the words for eating, for having a meal, ‘gin kao’ means literally ‘eat rice’. Rice is more easily digestible than wheat carbohydrates such as bread and pasta, and suitable for those on a gluten-free diet. Cooked rice has a lot of water in it too, which fills you up. The only thing is… The Huffington Post

Keto Diet: Easy Thai Skillet Chicken

This one-pot creamy keto chicken curry is the perfect meal for summer. It’s quick and easy to prepare with minimum clean-up… Watch here