Salim is sweet coloured mung bean noodles flavoured with jasmin. A traditional favourite of Thailand, although not very photogenic! There is a shortcut you can use if you don’t want to make the noodle, you can simply buy it and add colour it.

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Soft, slightly sweet with a slight nutty flavour from the sesame seeds. That’s how I would describe this dessert. The dark yellow pieces in the picture are pieces of jack fruit.

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This recipe may sound a little strange. It is a dessert made from shrimp on a base of (non-spicy) curried rice. A common Thai dish, but the ingredients are not common to desserts!

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Taro in Coconut Sauce or Puerk Loy Gaiw in Thia  is  Taro Coconut Milk , Sweet .  I really must get around to taking a fresh photo. This one looks so miserable.

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This is literally a sandwich cake! In Thailand we often eat bread as a dessert with sweet sauces spread on it. For this recipe I’ve taken one of these sauces and made it into a layer cake. You can also make sandwiches of this and eat it as a picnic food or as a children’s treats.

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A very simple dessert, bananas in a sweet sauce with slightly salty coconut milk. It’s typical in Thailand to add salt to desserts to balance the sweetness. For extra richness use coconut cream, the thicker top layer of coconut milk.

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These little ‘jewels’ are made from salad radishes and are crunchy in the centre like pomegranate seeds. You can also use apple if you prefer, but for true authenticity use water chestnuts, which you can buy in a tin from Asian grocers. In the above photograph only the jewels are shown, the syrup and coconut milk weren’t added so you can see the sparkle of the jewels.

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Another way to use up left over pumpkin, the pumpkin is cut into pieces and cooked in a coconut sauce and topped off with sugar syrup. This is typical Thai flavours.

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We eat a lot of vegetables in desserts in Thailand, including potato. The starch in potato tastes sweet when eaten, enzymes in your mouth break the starch into sugars, so it’s not such an unusual thing to have for a dessert.

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Sometimes the simplest dishes are the best, this dessert requires fresh ripe melon, either gala melon or cantaloupe are ideal for this. It is simply melon and coconut, the coconut adds a richer taste to the melon and the two flavours work extremely well together.

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