To you this is a variation of an eastern Turkish dish, to me this is a western dish! Inside the turkish bread is a typical Thai soft yellow curry for a Thai flavour with a western twist.

Ingredients
Turkish Bread
250 gms Pork Steak Meat
220 ml Coconut Milk
50 ml Evaporated Milk
1 Teaspoon Yellow Curry Paste
1/2 Teaspoon Salt
1 Teaspoon Sugar
20 gms Chopped Onion
4 Garlic Cloves Chopped
2 Tablespoons Oil

Preparation
1. Chop the pork into cubes, fry in oil until the pork is half cooked and a little browned.
2. Add the chopped garlic, chopped onion and fry for another 30 seconds.
3. Add the sugar, salt, yellow curry paste, evaporated milk and coconut milk and simmer until the sauce has reduced to half.
4. Slice open the turkish bread and spoon inside

This recipe is a blend of Thai yellow curried pork, coriander leaves, mint and lettuce served in pita bread. If you like Greek food and Thai food, why not mix the two and fill a pita bread with a Thai curry. This is a particularly way to serve Thai flavours to people who don’t like rice, the pita bread substitutes for the rice in this dish.

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Friday is normally pizza day in our house, but these are Thai pizzas, a modern mix of western and Thai recipes. A Thai flavoured pizza typically has no tomato in it, and only a little cheese, what it does have is plenty of Thai ingredients. This one is green chicken curry pizza, using Thai green curry paste to add some spice to the topping.

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This dish is a spicy Thai curry softened with coconut milk. Do not omit the coconut milk it is essential to the dish, but the vegetables can be interchanged with western vegetables. If you can’t get the green aubergine, use a suitable green frying vegetable rather than purple kind. The curry is ready mixed paste commonly used in Thailand, you can get this from an Asian grocer.

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A snack straight out of a Bangkok bakery, these little pies are ideal at this time of year with all the western parties. They are mini bite sized pies (pasties) filled with a Thai green curry pork. A mix of west and east. I used store bought puff pastry, but you can also make your own pastry.  like Yellow Bean & Salty Egg Pie

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The bones in these ribs add a lot of flavour to this curry, just as they would to soup. Cook them long and slow in the coconut milk curry until the meat practically falls off the bone and the bone has had chance to flavour the curry stock.

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This dish is a Thai red curry made from pineapple, layered pork with the fat included and long green beans. It’s quite nice to present it inside the hollowed out pineapple, but that’s not essential.

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This yellow curry really brings the sun into your food, so we photographed it with some rays of sunshine to light it up! Serve with fragrant rice as a side dish, your guests spoon some of the curry onto their rice and eat.

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A yellow curry using a premade curry paste. You can make the curry paste yourself if you wish, I will include a recipe for it in future, however it involves a lot of pounding in a Thai mortar and we usually use the ready made paste when in Thailand. So if you want to cook authentic Thai matsaman curry, then strictly speaking it’s more authentic to use the ready made paste!

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Green Chicken Curry it a favored dish from Central Thailand, and visitors to Thailand love it because it not too spicy and easy on the palet. A good meal for an evening dinner, here it is cooked with chicken legs but you can use chicken breast instead if preferred. I recommend corn fed chicken, it has much more flavour and a softer texture. There are lots of herbs & spices in the sauce, in old times these would be prepared by hand, luckily today thats not necessary, your local Asian supermarket stocks green curry sauce all ready to use. Note, you can eat the herbs too.
Originally from central Thailand, this is low to medium hot.

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